Letter: Yucca is not our biggest problem

Friday, March 29, 2002 | 9:13 a.m.

Is everyone missing this except me?

Gov. Guinn and our state politicians are talking about calling a special state legislative session. This is to authorize the expenditure of $10 million from the "rainy day" fund to fight the Yucca Mountain project. At the same time we have a crisis that may cost us Nevada's only Class 1 medical trauma unit. We also face the loss of many fine medical professionals due to the malpractice insurance crisis.

I don't know about you, but I think I have more of a chance of dying from loss of available quality emergency medical care than an incident involving Yucca or nuclear waste.

MARIO ALFONSI

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