User profile: FearNot

Any developer/builder who's had the pleasure of working with the Clean Water Team in the past couple of years can attest to the CCWSD's adoption of a full employment approach to all things sewage.

As a developer/builder who's worked in government and who's processed not less than 20 moderate/large projects in metro LV and a comparable number in several other western states, I've always been particularly impressed with Clark County and it's personnel. Government can and often does complete work in as cost effective a manner (or even more so) than private industry. Unfortunately, my recent experience with the CCWRD has put a significant dent in that perception.

For what it's worth, if it's so cost effective for the CCWRD to get into the inspection business now (when private industry is willing to do the work below CCWRD cost) then what's to keep the CCWRD from doing so after the private contractor has more profitable options?

Seems the CCWRD is intent on having our public infrastructure process more bull waste than human waste.

All due respect to blondegenes, please take a look at the economic swing at our national debt (from record budget surplus to record budget deficit) from 2000 through 2006 (during the first 6 years of the Bush-43 administration). That's the time the Republican party controlled both houses of Congress and the Office of the Chief Executive. Not a single veto on a single spending measure from Mr. President. Not one. The good Senator from Arizona toed the Republican line during that period as well.

At an earielr point in my life I worked for a Senator (a very good woman who served her country well and just happened to be a registered Republican). It's practically impossible for our elected officials to actually read all the legislation. Fact is, most don't even have enough time to read the legislation they sponsor. Drafting is generally done by aides (like me), industry groups (yep, those would be the ever vigilent and evil obbyists) and governmental/quasi governmental agencies. For candidates and their campaigns to sling mud at one another for voting one way or another on particular bills without also disclosing the poison pills buried within virtually every one is disingenuous and a dis-service to voters, especially voters who vote based upon a candidate's character and principles as opposed to their personal affiliations.

Fact is, about half the people we all know are registered to a different political party than us, are members of a different religion than us, are a different gender than us. Does that make 50% of your friends, neighbors, fellow Americans the enemy? If so, let's start blowing one another up. It would be a lot cheaper than tending to wars thousands of miles from home (especially at $3-$4/gallon for gas...)

LVBear, azsk8fan and Brittanicus are barking at the wind.

Really, ask virtually any child to look at the LV skyline at night and ask them if they know what all those lights are. Bet it doesn't take more than a couple questions and answers for them to identify what the primary economic generator is for greater LV. Like or not, gaming isn't just woven into the fabric of the LV valley, it's the proverbial blanket. There are few of us left who can remember LV as anything other than a community with an independent spirit, but one also steeped in a long history of gaming and hospitality.

I'm not a casino employee and never have been. But I do know that a significant number of the people we live next to, grocery shop with, dine beside, worship with and wave to (lovingly I'm sure) as we cruise down the highway do. As you travel that highway it's easy for those same children who can recognize the impact of gaming/hospitality to also see LV has a serious pollution problem. The concept of placing housing right next door to existing concentrations of employment is about the most sound environmental policy we Americans have not only the courage to adopt, but probably one of the few steps we can take without stirring those with far greater financial resources and having them quash our efforts.

My wife died of lung cancer at an early age. She was a life-long non-smoker and was otherwise terrifically healthy. She left me with 4 and 8 year old daughters. I'm blessed to have them and would like nothing more than to have them stay close to my home. The idea that I could have lived immediatly adjacent my home and seen them at breakfast, lunch and dinner; cared for them when sick, and still been as valuable an employee as those who had lost an hour or two a day to long commutes would have been a God send. However, it saddens me to say with our poor air quality I'm not sure that's in their best interest nor the best interests of their children.

The lack of citizen/voter courage to step up and make the relatively small changes (like supporting projects that are as beneficial to continuing and improving our way of life as this one obviously is) and I might add, at absolutely no financial cost to us as taxpayers is discouraging.

The suggestion that this housing development is somehow "low inclome" or anything other than top of the line is dead wrong). You can see that for yourself by looking at the product provided to the city for review and at the prior work this developer done. The suggestion that this housing development is somehow "low inclome" or anything other than top of the line is dead wrong). You can see that for yourself by looking at the City web site and looking at product provided to the city by the developer.

Extremists come in all genders, shapes, colors, sizes, faiths, ancestry and political party affiliation(s). Don't let them scare you. Challenge them to do what you know to be right.