Letters to the editor Oct. 8

Taxpayers carry too much burden of project

Recently I attended a presentation on the Nugget bailout project. Starting off, it sounded like a wonderful symbiotic live-work-and-shop community. It was to include a library, a parking garage, a plaza, a convention center, one or two office buildings, a hotel, and a residential building.

Somewhere I was led to believe that the Adams Trust was to gift something to the city. By the time the presentation was over, all that was left standing was a taxpayer-funded library, a taxpayer-funded parking structure for the Nugget, and a taxpayer funded plaza.

On the private side, nothing was left but maybe one new office building that would be filled by making other buildings vacant in the city. Rather than the Adams Trust giving the city anything, the city was now going to purchase the land from the Trust over a 30-year period.

I was troubled the city would even consider building a library nearby a casino. Most cities try to shelter their youth by keeping businesses such as sex shops, adult entertainment venues, bars, liquor stores and casinos away from places where children congregate. Would not a library nearby the high school or the college be more appropriate and accessible?

I was also troubled the city has not identified funds to maintain these facilities once built. The project no longer has merit. Bury it now.

Richard Schneider

Carson City

Dem mailer assailed Livermore's good character

I have known Pete Livermore and Robin Williamson for many years. Both are honorable people dedicated to public service. They served together on the Carson City Board of Supervisors, and are now facing one another in the election for Assembly District 40. Both have run clean campaigns focused on the very serious issues facing Carson City and our state.

Recently, the Democratic Party sent out two direct mailers attacking Pete Livermore that grossly distort the truth and assail his good character. Frankly, they are appalling, and do a disservice to both candidates. These mailers represent a new low in dirty politics, certainly in Carson City and perhaps in the entire state.

I hope Robin Williamson will denounce these offensive mailers and will implore the state Democratic Party to repudiate their contents and refrain from any further unscrupulous tactics in the Assembly District 40 race.

Let's let the voters decide the election on the issues and the positions taken by the two candidates. May the best candidate win.

Robert Skibinski

Gardnerville

Put Carson Street plan up to vote of people

I read with interest Ed Deusenberry's letter of Sept. 26 regarding the proposed narrowing of Carson Street.

In the late summer of 1990, our board of supervisors was determined to spend a couple of million dollars to put a steam-engine train on Curry Street. Their decision was based on a severely flawed study.

When asked to put this matter to a vote of the people, they adamantly refused. A few Carson City taxpayers took matters into their own hands, circulated a petition that in November 1991 resulted in an ordinance being passed prohibiting the laying of railroad tracks on any Carson City street without prior voter approval.

My understanding is that the board proposes to spend $300,000 for a feasibility study. I hope that first they will share with the public what information they presently have and let us decide the merits of spending that much money on a study.

The words of Santayana come to mind: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Mary Ann Bennett

Carson City

Thank you, Nevada Appeal, for returning Tuesdays' newspaper

To Nevada Appeal Publisher Niki Gladys:

Shouldn't there be a parade? If there is, you should lead it, just as your paper is taking the lead in Carson City's economic recovery.

Adding a day to the paper is a great gift for Carson City. Good for you, and good for your company for being bold and making a hefty investment toward better times.

David Toll

Gold Hill