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Letter: Native Nevadans nothing special

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003 | 8:48 a.m.

It's easy to understand that most people dislike having other people move into their village, increasing the population and changing the existing way of life. But why is it that some people, who just happened to be born and raised in Las Vegas, think that they have some special entitlement?

In a Sept. 9 letter Larry Selk seems to want people, who have made Las Vegas a metropolis, to leave so he can live peacefully with the coyotes. Of course, that won't happen and life will go on for better or for worse.

It also happens that this is America and living where one chooses is one of the freedoms that we all are blessed to enjoy. It's a good chance that any native born's parents came from somewhere else so perhaps they should have gone back. It should be noted that many, if not most, of the movers and shakers of Nevada, over the years, were not born in Nevada. One who comes to mind is his honor, our mayor. After 30-plus years, should he go back to Philadelphia?

TED MADDOX

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