For best results, take trash survey in summer
To the editor:
In her Feb. 7 column, Jane Ann Morrison kept us informed of the progress of a very bad idea: the Republic Services proposal to change trash pickup from twice weekly to once a week.
The Clark County Commission has voted to accept the Republic Services proposal, but commissioners will first take a survey of “test area” residents to hear how the proposed system has served them.
Many of us would have to violate our HOA rules and keep the new, larger containers outside, for lack of garage space. Thus the new system will assure disgusting odors, unhealthy vermin and a community eyesore. I applaud the taking of the survey, but unless the survey is conducted midsummer, the data will be biased toward acceptance of the bad idea.
I suggested that concerned citizens contact commissioners and suggest that they collect and analyze data from a summer survey before giving Republic Services the go-ahead.
WILBERT J. MARSHALL
HENDERSON
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Satisfied customer
To the editor:
I am surprised there is still a controversy regarding our trash pickup and recycling program.
In his Feb. 10 letter to the editor, Naz Mansilla says he has “no less than 50 pounds of trash sitting outside” at every pickup — two times per week. I realize we are a society of excess, but that’s 100 pounds of garbage per week.
I can recycle almost everything except what I eat, and I am very satisfied with pickup of trash and recyclables one time per week.
Thank you to the cities and county for finally moving forward with improved recycling.
HARIET BURGESON
HENDERSON
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Social justice
To the editor:
Physicists know you cannot pinpoint the exact location of an electron because the very act of observation changes its position.
As I see it, there must be a similar principle at work in the field of politics. For instance, President Obama thinks massive federal spending will bring about “social justice,” but the more we spend the more elusive that goal becomes.
Apparently the very act of massive spending only moves “social justice” further from our reach. I wish I had an answer, but I don’t think redistribution of wealth is it.
GLEN B. DUNNING
LAS VEGAS
Sex trafficking
To the editor:
Ed Vogel’s Tuesday report, “Legislation targets power of pimps over prostitutes,” gives an incorrect interpretation regarding Assembly Bill 67. The sex trafficking bill is designed to protect child victims between the ages of 15 and 18. They’re not “minor prostitutes.”
Please know the passing of this bill will replace the current pandering offense to sex trafficking, carrying a longer sentence for the pimps found guilty of this crime.
BARBARA A. LEWIS
LAS VEGAS
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Make immigrants pay
To the editor:
We should realize that school overcrowding is a direct byproduct of illegal immigration.
While I don’t want to deprive a child of an education, I feel the child of an illegal immigrant should pay a fee to the school system.
Our president, who encourages illegal immigration, has said he wants every child to be able to go to college.
Yet he stands there uttering this with his pockets turned inside out.
BENJAMIN OLIVER
LAS VEGAS
