LETTERS: RJ errs by running High Roller article
Who approved printing sex tips for those riding the High Roller? ("Vitalvegas.com's 11 vital tips for having sex on the High Roller," Wednesday Review-Journal). Encouraging illegal behavior should not be happening in your newspaper.
Does the RJ want the High Roller to discourage people with families from riding? I certainly would not take my grandchildren there, nor will I bring my out-of-town visitors. This article has moved me closer to canceling the paper. Where are your standards?
Dolly Galyean
Henderson
Story placement
Shame on the Review-Journal. With all the important news from here and across the globe, I was very disappointed in the poor judgment of the news staff regarding the 1A placement of the High Roller article ("Couple charged with sex on High Roller," Wednesday Review-Journal). And then the RJ used more space in the A section to print "Vitalvegas.com's 11 vital tips for having sex on the High Roller." This is not Page 1 news.
Ginny LeMay
Henderson
Solar subsidies
There is a well-worn saying that goes: You are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts. The "Solar Subsides" editorial (Tuesday Review-Journal) engenders that saying. If the RJ has been keeping up with its own reports on this issue, it should be clear to the editorial board by now that nonsolar customers do not subsidize solar customers. Even NV Energy has reversed this claim, which was promulgated by nonrenewable energy lobbyists feeling threatened by the march toward cleaner energy.
In fact, if the nascent solar energy industry is truly allowed to grow here, one of the sunniest places in the country, I know that renewable energy will prove itself to be cost-saving to all in terms of our environment, lives, economic growth and household energy use. As such, it is worth every subsidy given it.
Emerging industries are often given subsidies so that states can attract new growth industries or answer vexing environmental problems, such as the need to curb global warming. That is the case of the solar industry here. Without those subsidies, the state is picking the winner — the monopoly of NV Energy.
The 4.4 cents per kWh is also a misrepresentation of fact. That does not include the transmission cost to bring it from where it is generated during peak need. It has been demonstrated over and over in this debate that the transmission costs from my unused solar generation to my neighbor's house is nil, so paying 4.4 cents per kWh to bring it from, say, Arizona, is much more expensive.
For the RJ to make NV Energy the victim in this controversy and claim it is not subsidized by every power-consuming entity in this state is beyond ludicrous. Have you looked at your power bill? What they tried to foist on the residents of Nevada is tantamount to fraud. If you drive your hybrid car into a gas station, you don't pay more for the gasoline than if you drive your SUV there. Nor should anyone expect to have to pay more for energy from NV Energy if you use less of what they are selling. Yet that is exactly what NV Energy tried to pull off here.
This is the same company that asked for a rate increase when energy-saving appliances and lightbulbs started to cut into its profits. So, just who is picking winners and losers?
Beverly Lenny
Las Vegas
MGM parking fee
I am truly outraged about MGM Resorts' proposed parking charges, and I will not park at any casino that charges a fee, considering the outrageously high prices one already pays for food, drinks and entertainment at Strip casinos ("MGM to charge for parking," Jan. 16 Review-Journal). MGM is truly shooting itself in the foot.
Has MGM lost sight of what business it's in? It's the gaming business, not the parking business. How much money will MGM lose from locals by implementing these ridiculous parking fees? Speaking as a local, I have had enough. I will not go to MGM casinos to pay way over the top for food, drinks and the reduced odds of winning anything on its gaming tables or at its slot machines.
The first time I am asked to pay a parking fee, I will turn around and go to a casino with free parking, even if I have to go off the Strip.
Gary Mofield
Las Vegas
