We’re starving and we can’t afford to drive
To the editor:
As we are subjected to a constant barrage of reporting on Osama bin Laden, who is reporting on skyrocketing gasoline and food costs? The killing of bin Laden will not put food on our table or gas in our tank.
President Barack Obama has failed us in all domestic matters.
Also, why no reporting on our lost home equity? This is the biggest disaster affecting our financial positions since the Great Depression -- yet there's been little reporting.
Who cares? Only those impacted by the events -- and that is all of us.
Bob Wong
Las Vegas
Going green
To the editor:
I always find it interesting that some people don't recognize the environmental cost of "clean" energy. How do they think the wind turbines, solar panels, etc., come into existence?
In his Sunday column, Thomas Mitchell clearly pointed out the environmental impact these projects produce. Yet we have one Warren Senders of Medford, Mass., stating in a Monday letter to the editor that, "the scientific evidence shows conclusively" that failing to divert from fossil fuels will be exponentially costlier for the country in the long term.
First of all, conclusive evidence suggests that many tests have been performed, and the results are always the same: There is scientific theory about global warming, fossil fuel usage, green energy and so on, but no one has the ability to prove "conclusively" the best course of action to take. They have only theories.
Mr. Mitchell was correct in questioning the need to blunder into clean energy solutions without careful and intelligent questions as to their viability and impact.
Michael R. Stilley
Mesquite
Close it
To the editor:
Thanks to the Review-Journal for the article about Nevada State College ("College trials," Monday). With both UNLV and the College of Southern Nevada available to students in the Las Vegas area, the very existence of this school should be questioned.
This facility serves only to expand the cost of administration and facilities to the taxpayer. If the issue is providing services closer to the students, UNLV and CSN should be given the task.
The education establishment should take a hint from private-sector education outfits. These private "universities" rent office space or other facilities to use for classroom space. They are, therefore, flexible in their ability to react to changing demographics or economic conditions. They do not have a large and costly infrastructure to continue to fund when their market or the economy changes.
We do not need more buildings named after worn-out politicians. Instead, we need cost-effective education in the right place at the right time. Old-style campuses do not provide the flexibility needed for the future. Like the successful (and profitable) private universities, they need to be flexible to meet the needs of changing markets.
Nevada State College should be closed before it becomes a costly albatross.
James Magnuson
Las Vegas
