Letters

We are, after all, the driest state in the nation.

So when someone finally gets a job opportunity but it is ripped away due to discrimination, there should be endless opportunities to report this — to report the illegal act of biased business owners taking food out of the mouths of our children.

I feel cheated. I feel like I am trying to do my best to vote with intelligence, but the system just doesn’t allow it.

But the phenomena Moynihan described — an elitist press, the coastal cities versus flyover country, the outsized influence of the FBI — have proven, unfortunately, to be remarkably durable.

Since our Nevada legislators now want to increase property taxes again — and with no end in sight — perhaps it’s time to revive a Prop 13 for Nevada.

But there must be some statistical basis for choosing the best available candidates. I would not like to be treated by a physician who barely made it to med school.

Little wonder wonder so much of the public rates the press lower than Congress.

No matter how I crunch the numbers, I still can’t justify ‘budgeting’ an iPhone/data plan/apps/loss/damage/theft into a rational budget for an impoverished citizen.

Have every able-bodied person who receives unearned government support earn it. Have them become classroom monitors/mentors.

As a teacher, you work very hard, have to manage many volatile situations and do not get paid much for it. With a strong union behind you, you feel supported and protected.