Letter plus insight
Re “Best of Northern Nevada” (Feature story, Oct.
15):
I recently moved to Reno from San Jose, Calif., and had found the
Reno News & Review to be my favorite periodical. This was until I
read the “Best Of” issue. Whose idiotic idea was it to have
the “Best Legal Prostitute” category? Is this a category
every year? I would be embarrassed had I grown up here. This is the
kind of thing that the city of Reno celebrates? It’s pathetic.
Only in Nevada can a hooker be idolized and written about like
she’s some goddess. Prostitution may be “legal” in
the state of Nevada, but this does not mean that its citizens want it
glorified. She is a sex worker for crying out loud! And you’re
going to glorify that? I’ve found numerous articles in your
newspaper related to the image of Reno and how people would like it,
and the city’s streets, cleaned up. How can this be done if we
are encouraging prostitution? How can one encourage prostitution,
period? I haven’t the faintest. Maybe someone can offer some
insight. Perhaps this Californian does not understand the mentality of
Nevadans? Or, does the majority of the population find it
deplorable?
Cary Cochran
Reno
Editor’s note: Thank you. The answers to your questions, in
order: Probably mine. Yes. Yes. Yes. Apparently. Prostitutes are never
legal on the streets of Reno, only in the small counties. By having a
Biggest Little Best of Northern Nevada category. That’s my
guess. The mentality of Nevadans?
More insight
Let me get this straight: The people that moved downtown in a
24-hour gambling town are now complaining about the noise from the
bars? Give me a break. In this town, there are workers who don’t
even get off shift until 2, 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning. Now
these [new] people want bar owners to close their businesses early so
that they can sleep? Please. Here’s an idea: You might want to
move to the suburbs.
Cecelia Soper
Reno
Out of sight
Re “This Toxic House” (Feature story, Oct. 22):
This was a very good article on real estate, and it certainly raises
some disturbing questions.
Who ended up with this property? Along with Bank of America, who was
the other party to this particular financial arrangement?
When we tried to check on the public website for the Washoe County
Assessor’s office—all information about homes and
homeowners on Lakeridge Shores is unavailable. It does not seem to be a
website error since my own address is readily available. Can homeowners
or a group of homeowners have this type of information suppressed? If
there isn’t a process for this, how does it happen that those
particular addresses on Lakeridge Shores are not available on the
Assessor’s website?
At any rate, thanks for a good article.
Grace Davis
Reno
Methane’s
shite
Re “We are the world” (Letters to the Editor, Oct.
22):
In partial response (a full response would entail a book and/or a
bullwhip) to Bubby Coffey’s letter, what part of self-enslavement
does Bubby not understand? Putting government in control of all the
resources Bubby says government should control sounds to me like
totalitarian soup.
Bubby, your faith in the government is deluded, at best. I just want
to know how you are assured of entrance into the inner sanctum of
power. How is it that you know you won’t be standing in line with
the rest of us schlumps waiting for our daily gruel from the
“kind and knowing” hand of the governing? Once you have
given up the freedom that you now are wasting with all your rants and
bitching, you will be herded with the rest of us. Then of course, it
will be someone else’s fault.
Wake up and smell the methane.
B. Wood
Reno
Right’s tight
Re “We are the world” (Letters to the Editor, Oct.
22):
On Oct. 23, the RN&R published a letter I wrote. The letter made
a case for government take-over of our grocery industry. It also hinted
to government limitation of certain kinds of foods to individuals. I
wonder how many people believed that I was preaching socialism and
trying to radically change our way of life. How many others understood
my sarcasm, pointing out the ludicrous ideas of the current push to
change our health-care system.
The statements I wrote were factual. It is important to eat healthy
foods. We do have hungry citizens in the United States. Obesity is a
problem for a growing percentage of people. Our capitalist society does
profit from people’s bad choices (as well as their good
ones).
It is not my opinion that the federal government should control our
decisions. I want the choice to eat what I want, regardless of the
outcome. Not the same kind of choice that our current administration is
trying to sell us. I visit a physician’s assistant at least once
a year. I follow his advice … well mostly. I pay for his service, and
that’s that. I don’t want or need government takeover of
our healthcare, groceries, housing, or anything else.
If we blindly follow our leaders, we will end up under their total
control. Where will it stop? Maybe their reform would help you. Does
that make it right? If they force your neighbor to pay for your
hospital care, do you really want that money? This modern day Robin
Hood mentality has got to stop. Regardless of what he did with the
money, Robin Hood was a thief!
Recently, I debated with a friend of mine about “the public
option.” She pointed out that the insurance industry makes huge
profits off of us. In fact, I have always stated that the two biggest
rip-offs in the United States are insurance and federal taxes. We both
agreed to that fact. What she could not explain is why she would want
to take the power away from insurance companies and give it to a
government, who hasn’t behaved any better. The power needs to be
split among more parties, not fewer.
I commend the far left on many subjects. They know how to spin the
truth and play on people’s concerns much better than
conservatives. They are better at motivating people to write or call
their representatives. They hold rallies and parades with huge
followings. That doesn’t mean they are in the majority though.
The majority are those who go on with their daily lives without even so
much as showing up on Election Day. The majority doesn’t have
time to take off work for a rally or parade. The majority thinks that
sending a letter to Harry Reid is a waste of time. The majority will
suffer as a result of their laziness! Conservatives need to step up and
make a difference or the letter I wrote will be more than a joke. It
will be reality and we will have gone too far to turn back!
Bubby Coffey
Reno
Correction
Re “Yucca debate planned” (Upfront, Oct. 29):
We reported that one of the participants in a Chamber of Commerce
debate included “Ty cobb, a state legislators.” Actually,
it was the father of the state legislator, also named Ty Cobb. We
regret the error.