Hillary prevails in this sad theater
President Obama and Hillary Clinton are boarding Air Force One for Mr. Obama’s first campaign rally in North Carolina. At the same time, FBI director James Comey calls Hillary everything but a rotten haggis bag yet comes short of recommending indictment because he can’t prove intent (I think I’ll use that defense with my next speeding ticket).
He returned serve to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who will no doubt finish this drama which began with her clandestine meeting on the tarmac in Phoenix with the only president impeached and disbarred for lying.
It’s an insult to our collective intelligence as they want us to eat this tripe.
Mark Mendonsa
Laughlin
Crooked Donald
Now that crooked Hillary won’t be charged with criminal wrongdoing, when will the attorney general of New York announce whether crooked Donald Trump will be charged with fraud? After all, doesn’t the American public have a right to know if they are going to elect a president who will be spending the next four years in a cell with Bernie Madoff?
Richard Pratt
Las Vegas
Fading plates
After the recent announcement that Nevada license plates will have to be replaced every eight years due to fading, I made a concerted effort to observe plates whenever I’ve been on the road. Thus far, I’ve yet to detect one faded plate — not that they don’t exist. However, I’ve noted a good number of cars driving with no plates at all.
This latest excuse to once again reach into the pockets of Nevada residents seems like more of a shakedown than a necessity. Perhaps if public money were handled more responsibly by agencies and institutions who rely upon the dollars of hard-working Nevadans, there wouldn’t be a need to come back and keep asking for more.
There was no mention of excluding from this requirement those plates that might still be in good condition. Perhaps because we know that they would far outweigh the number of “faded” plates.
Annoula Wylderich
Las Vegas
Cashman site
As a 10-year transplanted resident of the valley, I believe Cashman Field is the best location for a new stadium. Here’s why:
1) Construction would not exacerbate existing Strip or airport traffic congestion.
2) An earlier Review-Journal article stated Cashman has the greatest overall area, which would allow ample parking space.
3) The Strip is already a thriving entity. Let’s expand near downtown and downtown development.
4) Because locals will probably be at least 50 percent of season ticket holders and purchase a good number of other available seats, proximity to Interstate 15 would not be a concern for those who know how to use surface streets.
5) Visiting attendees will generate additional revenue for taxis, and other transport companies, in turn increasing city revenues.
6) Widening stadium access areas of Las Vegas Boulevard and Washington Avenue would be easier and less costly than any other traffic concern.
As a former Chicago resident, I have seen how expansion of McCormick Place and Soldier Field improvements initiated a boom in the near south and near west downtown areas. A stadium at Cashman could easily put Las Vegas in a similar position.
Michael C. Spaulding
North Las Vegas
Slow Lerner
I am curious. What can Las Vegas do to get rid of a constant, malingerer who begs us all for our money? It is unending!
I am referring, of course, to Glen Lerner.
I cannot remember life here before him anymore. He has so effectively permeated the media that it is, in fact, difficult to live a single day without seeing or hearing this man.
I have nothing personally against him. But I have to ask: When is enough, enough? Like his new ad says, “You see my face everywhere” — and indeed we do.
Peter Haslehurst
Las Vegas
