Together with the generous pensions paid through the PERS system, it is wasteful and ill-conceived government spending that needs to be addressed before we push to milk more money from taxpayers.
Letters
When a person defeats 17 others within his own party to move on to challenge the opposing party’s career candidate, then defeats that candidate in the general election — and you add to it the loss of the Senate Democrat majority and the expansion of the Republican House majority — any nonpartisan onlooker would call that a mandate.
The man was professional purveyor of bigotry and narrow-mindedness. So why he is still being honored by having our beloved window to world, McCarran International Airport, named after him?
I hope Sen. Dean Heller joins other responsible Republican senators who caution that precipitous repeal of the Affordable Care Act without legislating an immediate replacement will have a devastating impact on our health-care system and thousands of Nevada citizens.
Which is more offensive?
Our soon-to-be president must remember the old cliches that you reap what you sow and what goes around comes around.
The investment would reduce accidents and raise money
There is an old and true statement, something like, “If you keep doing the same thing, you will continue to get the same results.” In my 17 years in Las Vegas, I have concluded that the saying applies to the Clark County education system.
We citizens of Nevada need to do what the property owners in Californian did and vote for a Proposition 13 which, by law, caps property tax increases.
We can spend several years moving all the statues out of the Capitol. And we might have to tear down a few memorials while we are at it.
Our incoming president has continually demonstrated a total lack of class that deserves no measure of respect at all. Now I’m supposed to forget all that and pretend to respect this guy? You gotta be kidding me.
Israel’s aggressive buildup of settlements on the occupied land is illegal and justifiably drawing worldwide condemnation.
A terrible crime against another human being was committed. That should be the issue.
Mr. Root is a breath of fresh air. I’ve never read a columnist before who says exactly what I feel and believe.
Why didn’t they know what was going on?