Wasted food should go to homeless
I think the mayors of the cities in our great state of Nevada need to appoint a person or persons to go to all of the casinos when the dinner hour is over. With all of our homeless — including homeless vets who are starving — the food that is wasted is not only a sin, but a crime.
No matter how much is left over, the managers throw it away. Why can’t this be picked up and handed out to the homeless? Health reasons? How healthy is dumpster diving?
Something needs to be done so these people can get some decent food.
Gerry Baxter
Henderson
Sheer stupidity
I read with interest the recent letter headlined “No need to worry about ‘illegal’ voters.” When I went to vote in 2012, a Spanish-speaking man came in behind me. I signed in. He signed in. He did not speak a word of English. I went to my voting station and he ended up next to me. There was another man there who was apparently some sort of worker and he also spoke Spanish. He went to the man (who obviously had never voted) and showed him how to vote and who to vote for.
After I finished voting, I went to the person who signed me in and asked if that man was a citizen of the United States. The response was: “Not my job.” So yes, people who are here illegally do vote here.
We need to show ID for many things we do in this country. Voting is one of the most serious and important things that we can do to preserve our Republic. And as Benjamin Franklin famously said when asked what type of government we had, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
We also now allow people who are here illegally to obtain Nevada driver’s licenses. It is sheer stupidity that we do not have to show ID to vote.
Layna Woods
Las Vegas
Bye, bye
Regarding your Wednesday wire service story, “TV talk pioneer McLaughlin dies”:
I will miss John McLaughlin, an intelligent man who dazzled me when I used to watch his TV shows as a young political junkie. It is interesting that the article mentioned that critics of his show said it “was more about show business and entertainment than journalism and politics.” Further that it “celebrated nasty posturing, abhorred complexity” and that his panel consisted of “mostly conservative old white men.”
Surprisingly, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s reacted this way: “John McLaughlin was a TV institution for generations of Americans. … We will miss his contagious spirit and tireless dedication.”
Well said, Mrs. Pelosi. Well said. Perhaps she is a closet Trump supporter? Time will tell.
David Tulanian
Los Angeles
Obama bogey
In 2005 the national media and liberals (including then-Sen. Barack Obama) went ballistic because President Bush did not give enough attention to Katrina and its destruction of New Orleans. At least he flew over the area and saw the devastation. President Obama did not even give up his golf game.
R. Scott Elsasser
Las Vegas
