Opinion

To the editor:

In his State of the Union speech last month – and on other occasions, of late – President Obama lectured Americans like a schoolmarm, insisting it’s time to cut federal spending and deficits. Then last week, without any noticeable squawk, the president signed legislation lifting the cap on government debt from $12.4 trillion to $14.3 trillion.

Viva Leroy Nash died last week in Florence, Ariz. You’ve probably never heard of him.

The president’s visit to Las Vegas is pretty much set at this moment and, unfortunately for the people of Nevada, it does not include (once again) an editorial board meeting with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The Clark County School District is the latest entity to prove that going green doesn’t necessarily save you green.

Ever since reading Nancy York’s Sunday letter, “The horror of cuts,” I have been consumed with the horrific vision of tens of thousands of men, women and children running into the streets in search of a nicotine fix as soon as the funding for the “Nevada tobacco prevention and cessation program” is eliminated.

I’m writing in response to Charles Parrish’s Thursday letter to the editor. Finally, somebody gets it.

Although President Barack Obama “expressed interest” last summer in a punitive tax on sugared soft drinks, the Chicago Tribune reports, a key congressional committee, “after initially seeming receptive, ended up refusing to consider it.”

About one third of the way into his State of the Union speech on Jan. 27, President Barack Obama said an astonishing thing. He said: “I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future. …”