Letter: Assorted rants for the new year

Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006 | 7:51 a.m.

It's a new year and time for an annual (or sometimes more frequent) ranting.

Try working your way through the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program for a few days. And this comes to us from some of the same people who tout Intelligent Design?

Land prices in the Las Vegas Valley approach $500,000 per acre. I hate to break this to people, but Las Vegas is not an island surrounded by water. It's a desert surrounded with ... vacant land. Does anybody get that something needs to change? It's good that we're using money from Bureau of Land Management land sales for parks. We'll have to live someplace.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is getting ready to spend billions of dollars to pipe water from Lincoln and White Pine Counties into the valley, so we have water supplies to accommodate a population of 3 million people.

Can someone tell me why a population of 3 million people would be a good thing? I moved to Las Vegas in 1990 and no one I know thinks the quality of life today is better than it was when they moved here. If more people want to move to Nevada, send them to Pioche or Ely. They have water!

Jim Weber

Mesquite

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