User profile: Launce

Joined: May 18, 2008

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Posted on: Oscar loves forcing developers to sign labor peace agreements, Culinary loves the city's downtown plans and all is forgiven

Good for Culinary. Good for Las Vegas. The anti-union chatterboxes with the bad grammar and spelling skills: fail.

(Suggest removal) 11/28/09 at 6:31 a.m.

Posted on: City, Culinary Union pact would mandate 'mutual support'

You know when the right-wing loons are trolling the webtubes when grammar and spelling go out the window.
I am happy that we have the Culinary Union in this town to point out that tax-protected monuments to artifice and graft don't hire teachers. The wingnuts don't like unions, but they don't like guv'mnt, either. So pack up and live in caves in the desert. Those of us who prefer civilization give two big thumbs up to D. Taylor and the union. (Of which I am not a member.)
Happy Thanksgiving!

(Suggest removal) 11/26/09 at 12:56 p.m.

Posted on: Has the Southern Nevada Water Authority ever considered tapping the water in Lake Tahoe?

Pat Mulroy would drain Lake Tahoe in a second if she could, and it benefited the developers... but she can't. The problem with all the scenarios of pumping water from somewhere else - defoliating the Great Basin, huge pipelines from the Mississippi, importing water from Canada, etc. - is that all these very, very expensive schemes are based on a supply-side assumption. That is, we just need to get more water and then everything will be fine. I think we have to be grownups and decide to live with the existing resource; that is, all the Colorado River users need to make modest cuts in consumption to preserve the stability of the river as a permanent water source.
But that's apparently sacrilege in a town based on the exploitation, destruction and disposal of all kinds of resources, human and natural.
So guess what? Dec. 1 the Clark County Commission, acting as the Las Vegas Valley Water District, is going to raise water rates for working families who have been doing a good job on conservation. That will keep the water flowing to developers and affluent water wasters!

(Suggest removal) 11/20/09 at 7:58 p.m.

Posted on: Leonard Cohen calls down angels in the palace of Caesar

Great review, Mishak. I saw the abbreviated and relatively lackluster show at Coachella, but Thursday night's performance was a relevation. Wasn't it amazing that during If It Be Your Will there wasn't a sound in the entire Colosseum, except those beautiful Webb sisters?
And 1,000 Kisses Deep - wow.

(Suggest removal) 11/13/09 at 4:16 p.m.

Posted on: Dina Titus backing House health care plan after changes

Thank you, Dina Titus. Two facts that rarely get repeated, but should be: America has among the lowest, if not the lowest, quality health care in the industrialized world. We had the most expensive by anyone's honest measure.
Uniquely in this, the country that I love: Giving the insurance industry a monopolistic control of life and death is not working, my friends on both the left and the right.

(Suggest removal) 11/4/09 at 7:08 p.m.

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