Monorail needs to go to airport to make money

To the editor:

In response to your Sunday editorial on the Las Vegas Monorail, "Off the rails":

The 800-pound gorillas standing on every monorail platform read your editorial. They have been standing there, ignored since 2005, holding signs that read, "Take me to the airport."

Clearly, the monorail would be the best way to travel to and from Strip hotels and the airport. The monorail would be operating in the black if it were connected to the airport and would most likely be banking money that could be used for future expansion to downtown and even to residential or shopping hubs.

Why isn't the monorail connected to the airport? The same old Las Vegas problem. Politicians, bureaucrats and special interest groups. Las Vegas deserves better.

John O'Shea

NORTH LAS VEGAS

Government-run?

To the editor:

Last Friday, I opened my Review-Journal to see a prominent headline, "Privatizing UMC gets a look." The article by Scott Wyland explains that an $83 million loss last fiscal year has led the Clark County Commission to explore contracting with a private-sector company to operate the hospital.

Let me see ... here is a government-run health provider considering having a private company take over because the government cannot make it work. Commission Chairman Rory Reid and his fellow board members "bemoan the loss" (of $83 million).

Meanwhile, across the continent, Sen. Harry Reid is twisting arms to take the health provider industry away from the private sector and have the government run it.

Strange.

W. Brent Hardy

LAS VEGAS

Snow day

To the editor:

All federal offices in the Washington, D.C., area were closed Monday due to the weather. How delightful. "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!"

David Slater

LAS VEGAS