Las Vegas Sun

February 13, 2012

Currently: 53° | Complete forecast | Log in

Comments by user: hak2do

Posted on: Our schools deserve parents’ support

I'm a fiscal conservative who has lived here for nearly 20 years. I don't see taxes as a solution to our problems in this state, but I'm running out of ideas on how to fix this mess we're in.

As melodramatic as he is, Rogers is right. We don't care about education here and we keep strangling our schools with one hand and telling them to perform better with the other. Giving education unlimited funds probably won't work, but it sure as heck would work better than the current philosophy of death by a thousand cuts.

We need to finally decide whether we want to make Nevada a home for tourists or a home for its citizens. Our tourist-first philosophy is turning this town into a wasteland instead of a community.

As I heard him say at one of our club's events: "It's time to pay our community rent."

(Suggest removal) 8/19/08 at 10:53 a.m.

Most Popular

  • Viewed
  • Discussed
  • E-mailed
  • Facebook