Reid has helped Nevada change with the times

Linda Wilcox, Las Vegas

Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 | 2:03 a.m.

During my early years in Pennsylvania, we had an ice block that was used to cool our refrigerator and a three-part washing tub for clothes. It was fairly easy to grow veggies as long as it didn’t freeze during the short summer season. (It often did.)

Now I live in Nevada. As the decades have passed, it has become a lot easier to obtain electricity and truck in items not produced locally. Nevada’s population has flourished.

There may actually be a family here that depends on no one else for their basic necessities. The rest of us are dependent on each other.

One group of citizens, the right wing, is having trouble with this change of circumstances. Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle represents them. Maybe there were many good-old days. I have a feeling that most were childhood memories and it was our parents who struggled to keep us alive.

So I really don’t know why Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets a bad rap, because he has tried to help the citizens of Nevada change with the times.

Our future, the energy source from the sun, is shining down on us every day. We can long for the less than good-old days or embrace changes that will help our struggling economy. The choice is ours.