LETTERS: Media shine light on Boulder City animal shelter
Animal deaths
Many thanks to the Review-Journal editors who allocated front-page space to the story of the animal deaths at the Boulder City animal shelter ("Manager suspected, but arrest quashed," Dec. 2 Review-Journal).
From that story, the public learned that a criminal investigation into the shelter's high euthanasia rate — which occurred under the direction of former animal control supervisor Mary Jo Frazier — did not culminate in criminal charges against Ms. Frazier. Instead, Boulder City Police Chief Bill Conger decided that since Ms. Frazier is now retired from her position at the shelter and that "people get in trouble and resign all the time," he felt it was a "moot point" to seek charges against her. Thanks to your story, public awareness and public involvement caused the chief's initial decision to be overturned, and charges against Ms. Frazier are now under evaluation by the district attorney's office ("Boulder City reverses course," Friday Review-Journal).
I am deeply puzzled that the decision to not pursue charges against Ms. Frazier was left up to the police chief. I am more puzzled that he would ignore the recommendation of a seasoned Boulder City police detective who investigated allegations against Ms. Frazier and recommended felony and gross misdemeanor charges be brought against her. Retirement is not a haven to escape criminal charges. Ms. Frazier should answer the serious charges levied against her. And perhaps Mr. Conger may wish to contemplate his own retirement.
Lynn Clayton
Las Vegas
Dear Harry
Dear Sen. Harry Reid: Under your watch, the terror threat to the United States has increased exponentially, and the national debt has increased from $2 trillion when you were first elected to more than $18 trillion today. Also during your watch, terrorists blew up Pan Am Flight 103, bombed the World Trade Center for the first time, the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed, thousands were killed in 9/11, several American journalists were beheaded and the Boston Marathon was bombed.
Muslim extremists are now committing mass murders here in the United States.
Despite that disastrous record, your primary focus is obviously to continue your relentless attacks on Republicans, so that you and your ilk can remain in power. Sen. Reid, you are a disgrace.
Mark Cook
Henderson
Climate scare
I am not sure why the Review-Journal continues to publish the reliably incoherent, incomprehensible political cartoons from Clay Jones. The one in Friday's newspaper is a case in point. There is no demonstrated correlation between a supposed increase in global temperatures and the frequency or severity of hurricanes.
In fact, data from the National Hurricane Center shows the United States has been struck significantly fewer times by major hurricanes from 1965 to the present, when compared with the period 1915 to 1965.
Climate change, if it is occurring at all, is not particularly scary.
James Moldenhauer
North Las Vegas
Crippling ISIS
I was thinking about putting a letter to the editor together when I read the commentary by Marc Thiessen ("It's time for Obama to take the enemy seriously," Nov. 18 Review-Journal). I couldn't have said it any better, except to add that it isn't going to happen. Not as long as we have a megalomaniac in the White House.
President Barack Obama's latest show of this monarch attitude is his dismissal of putting stringent security measures in place for the flood of Syrian refugees entering this country. The majority of the American people feel it is needed, but do you think Mr. Obama listens to us? I don't think so.
The free world needs to unite against ISIS. We are in a war and need to set aside our differences and join as we did in World War II. As much as I am against putting our military on the ground, I can't help but wonder if that is what it is going to take. I realize we will never defeat an ideology, but we sure can put a serious dent in their ability to carry out their insane religious views.
Joe Schaerer
Las Vegas
