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On Saturday, my husband and I went to our assigned Democratic caucus site at Del Webb Middle School, arriving a few minutes before 11 a.m. The courtyard was crowded with people standing in a line that was already snaking around two U-turns

Caucuses seemed to be designed to disenfranchise a majority of voters. How many more people would have voted in Nevada’s Democratic caucus on Saturday if they could have come, pushed a button and left?

Letters from Shelley Carpenter, Bob Jack and Kevin Fitzgerald.

Letters from Richard Pratt, Jim Hartman, Walter F. Wegst and Larry Acker.

There appears to be a serious difference of opinion between Apple and the FBI (“Apple bets big on public’s thirst for privacy,” Thursday Review-Journal). The FBI claims it needs encrypted information from the phone of the perpetrator of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif. The FBI hopes to “possibly” find additional information on a crime that has already been solved.

The death of Justice Antonio Scalia leaves the Supreme Court in a 4-4 tie on remaining conservative (i.e. Republican) and progressive (i.e. Democratic) judges. Republicans are uniting on a premise of not allowing a new judge to be approved until the next president is elected and takes office, roughly 11 months from now.

After reading the Jan. 23 article on the new parking fee for MGM Resorts and and CEO Jim Murren’s justification for it, my only thought was that MGM is opening another Pandora’s box in Las Vegas.

Once in a while, an issue such as federal lands gets groups of citizens into such a state of frustration that they just erupt. Right or wrong, they are just so fed up with what they are seeing that they lash out in an effort to get people behind them.