Schools’ transportation policy is dangerous

To the editor:

As a parent of three third-graders starting a new school in Henderson this year, I was shocked to find out that there was no bus transportation for them.

It seems that the school district thinks it is entirely appropriate to allow 8-year-olds to walk two miles along and across busy streets that have no sidewalks or crossing guards.

Seriously?

Would the same people who made this moronic policy allow their children to dodge traffic for two miles every morning and afternoon?

We recently moved here from Tucson, Ariz., and even though our school was about a half-mile away, we still had bus transportation for the kids.

Dale Claassen

Henderson

Jobs guru

To the editor:

The right-wing mantra we hear over and over is that we shouldn't tax the rich their fair share because the rich are the ones who "create jobs."

What a bunch of baloney. What jobs?

The only jobs they seem to be providing are perhaps a few more clerks in Swiss banks.

I say we tax the super-rich at 1990 levels and use the money to rebuild our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Only then could the right-wing say with some truth that the wealthy have created jobs.

David Mackett

Las vegas

Don't close museum

To the editor:

In response to news about the Liberace Museum closing:

Someone should hold the board of directors responsible for the unaccounted-for spending and frivolous pay rates to the presidents they have hired to run the museum.

I'm sure some grant writers in town should be able to perform magic for the foundation, and someone who cares should run it. This museum should not pass. It's an historical Las Vegas landmark.

What is everyone thinking?

John Kaye

Glendale, Calif.