Columns on local hoarder were outstanding

To the editor:

Top kudos to the Review-Journal’s Jane Ann Morrison, for her two front-page Saturday columns about the serious hoarder in Sun City Summerlin. Not only did she provide all of the detailed information about the history of this sad situation, but her work resulted in rapidly fired-up, correct and speedy attention to the overall problem.

Ms. Morrison, you are on my Pulitzer list for all of the time you spent on research and follow-through. Thanks, too, to Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony, who represents this retirement community. He quickly pulled together all of the necessary city departments to examine the need for compliance and compassion in this case. I live in the community, and I am sure many of us – especially neighbors – welcomed the overall attention sparked by Ms. Morrison’s first column on this subject Sept. 29.

Very impressive, and a job well done to everyone involved.

Geoffrey Marsh

Las Vegas

Clip Big Bird

To the editor:

I had to shake my head when I read your Sunday article about voter registration, “Sign-ups of voters just got harder.”

It really is sad how uneducated some voters are. Daisy Garcia said she would vote for President Obama over Mitt Romney because she believes Mr. Romney’s plan to cut taxpayer funding for PBS would kill Big Bird. Our economy is in the crapper, our state has the highest unemployment rate in the country, as well as the second-highest foreclosure rate, and all this woman worries about is whether “Sesame Street” gets government money the program doesn’t even need to survive.

PBS gets about 12 percent of its funding from the government, hardly enough to shut it down. Ironically, this ignorant woman sells Sesame Street items at an outlet mall. Where does she think a portion of her sales go? Does she think these products are licensed for free? One quick Google search shows that Sesame Street has given licensing to Fisher Price, Hasbro, Build a Bear and a host of other toy companies. Sesame Street also has given licensing to ice shows, stage shows and at least six theme parks. Money from all these sales go to help fund Sesame Street.

I’m pretty sure Big Bird doesn’t need the government’s charity. If anything, with the amount of money Sesame Street must be generating from licensing, maybe its nonprofit production company should become a for-profit corporation and start paying some taxes. Maybe Sesame Street can help get us out of this mess rather than add to the federal budget deficit.

Tracy Brigida

Las Vegas

Kill order

To the editor:

Over the past few days, nearly every news service has asked: Who won the presidential debate?

To win, Mitt Romney practiced “Tell them what they want to hear!” However, the public is more savvy than given credit for. Polls do not show a dramatic shift. Plus, many of us are still in shock over his kill order for PBS. That made us realize that the arts as we know them would become extinct under his presidency. What a sad world that would be.

Jim Guynup

Las Vegas

The American way

To the editor:

Apparently Daisy Garcia would prefer to live on her knees to China than stand tall as a self-sufficient American (“Sign-ups of voters just got harder,” Sunday Review-Journal).

Ms. Garcia was not listening closely to the presidential debate. Mitt Romney’s comment was: I will stop subsidies to PBS if we have to rely on loans from China to pay for it. PBS is not an entitlement – those who choose to enjoy its presentations should be prepared to help pay for it or be willing to put up with the commercials every other station is required to air to stay in business. It is called free enterprise. That is (or was) the American way.

Jo Anne Rush

Las Vegas

Bipartisan candidate

To the editor:

Please accept my compliments on your endorsement of Mitt Romney for president (Sunday Review-Journal). In this increasingly divided, hyperpartisan world in which we live, your editorial hit on a key point I believe gets too little attention: Gov. Romney has a record of bipartisanship as a chief executive who managed to sign important measures into law in a state governed by a legislature of the other party.

Unlike most of Washington’s who’s who, Mr. Romney is a businessman, not a career politician, and if, as you wrote, he were to hire a Cabinet of similarly skilled people, it might just be possible to change a little bit of the culture of stagnation, partisanship and greed that keeps anything from being achieved in D.C.

Sean McCaffrey

Chandler, Ariz.

The real Romney

To the editor:

I keep reading and hearing from Mitt Romney’s opponents that a different Mitt Romney showed up at the debate. No, the real Mitt Romney showed up, not the one the liberal media and the attack ads have created. They have repeatedly twisted his statements from his speeches and lied about his policy positions.

To President Obama and the people who keep lying about Mr. Romney’s position on the “$5 trillion dollar tax cut,” Mr. Romney can keep explaining it to you, but he can’t understand it for you.

Michael O. Kreps

Las Vegas