User profile: Sjr

I'm very low income and when I tried to make an appointment, I was denied. Despite the website saying the clinic was for "all Nevadans", I was asked two questions. One, was I on Medicaid. No. Two, was I an undocumented worker. No. To which I asked if I had just run the border I could use the clinic and the operator said, "Yes, and it makes me so angry." She wasn't the only one it made angry!

I've never been able to afford the private, outrageous costs my dentist wants, so am now suffering other physical problems directly related to not being able to get some affordable care for my teeth. I didn't want free care, just something I could afford. The results have been a severe decline in general overall health, great weight loss because I can't chew, and probable surgery down the line to correct, if possible, the consequences of being unable to find affordable dental care in Las Vegas. That's going to cost a lot more than if the teeth had been able to be cared for a few years ago. But, I wasn't an "undocumented worker", so no help for me, and I pay taxes!

The health costs of not being able to find dental care can be tremendous, bad teeth can be deadly. Either the clinic should make itself available to the citizens of Nevada fairly and equally, or it needs a definite change in focus and management.

I moved to far southeast Henderson 7 years ago. When we'd have to go "into town" we'd take Horizon Ridge Parkway north. As the road rounded Black Mountain, there was the most spectacular view of the valley below, so impressive at night, a ride we'd take visitors on it was so grand. Gradually, houses crept further north, until about the only view left was near Gibson. I remember our first 4th of July here parking at Gibson and Horizon Ridge viewing the fireworks on the Strip, it was one of the few things I really liked about living here.

Then that awful building started to take shape and, in order to give everyone's view to those who could afford $400K to $1M to see it, those lofts appeared. We'd tell ourselves that, eventually, the project may be impressive. As it sits there now, I can see the new taste in architecture looks more like something a child would make by piling boxes or building blocks one on top of the other. It's a hideous building, the view is gone, and now we get to see this monstrosity that will never look good until nature or bulldozers grind it back into desert. I hope that time may not be far off when someone makes that trashy looking crackerbox disappear. The only blessing for the place not being completed is all the additional traffic not being generated.

I gave up long ago trying to figure out the City of Henderson's planning department, or whoever in town approved all this overzealous building, but someone at City Hall was surely led down the primrose path when they approved this monstrous behemoth.