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I am writing this letter in full support of Max Baer and his Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino project. I urge the Douglas County Commission to approve the proposed project. I have long supported Max and the realization of his dream - he has worked on this project for years, and I have followed each event with my full attention.
The way that Max and his project were treated in Carson City was a disgrace and blatantly foolish. By blocking this casino, special-interest businesses locally cost the city millions in revenue and many, many jobs. I have noted many businesses have elected to move their operations to Douglas County rather than staying in Carson City for a variety of reasons. Max's venture is the most recent and largest to do so. This project, even though not directly in Carson City, will still bring revenue and jobs to the city and now will also benefit Minden/Gardnerville as well. The whole area will become a famous tourist destination and will bring in even more revenue for Lake Tahoe, Reno and the ski resorts. In other words, this will help Carson City in spite of those foolish individuals who considered themselves too good for Max Baer and his celebrity status.
I urge the Douglas County Commission to swiftly approve this project so that construction may begin. I know that as a business owner here in Carson City, I will proudly take clientele to the casino and cinema that will be built on Highway 395. "The Beverly Hillbillies" was a beloved and wonderful sitcom that I enjoyed as a child. Jethro's Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino will become famous overnight, and I would wager that whole families will book vacations around this venture. What a boon to Douglas County and a blessing to business and the residents of Northern Nevada in general this will be.
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Carson City
Legislature has no business interfering in labor disputes
Let me get this straight.
The unions go on strike to apply economic pressure on the employer to grant their wishes. They are trying to shut down the employer and take away his financial livelihood - he has no other source of income.
So the employer locks out the remaining employees to apply economic pressure on them to accept his offer which is probably something less than what the employees are demanding. He is taking away their financial livelihood and they have no other source of income.
But wait! Along comes the Legislature who grants the locked out employee unemployment benefits. Where is the employer's unincome benefits?
The employer's economic pressure tool is removed. The Legislature is unfairly interfering with the labor dispute activities.
And, who pays the unemployment benefits? The employer.
Is there not something wrong here?
Stuart Posselt
Minden
Divisive argument over global warming cause for skepticism
I'd like to respond to Cory King's letter regarding global warming and it being a political issue. Al Gore's movie could be 100 percent correct or not, I have no clue. I know a majority of scientists feel that global warming is being caused by man, but the fact that it is such a politically divisive argument makes me skeptical.
Influential advocates of the manmade warming theory are threatening the careers of highly accredited scientists who voice alternative theories. Merely having an open mind about different possibilities is ridiculed. Something is amiss there, and it flies in the face of science itself.
Had this effort to oppress alternative theories been going on the '70s when I was in high school, we may not have the very scientists who warn us of global warming now. The prevailing thought back then was that the earth was entering a manmade ice age due to pollutants reducing sunlight. If the current theory is correct, had scientists at the time been strong-armed to abandon further study they would have not found that the cooling theory was wrong and that the earth was actually warming.
The 30 years since that opposite theory and the 50 years that warming has been studied in depth are both blips in the eons of time. Those believing in manmade warming should continue their research unabated, but so should the other side. A majority of scientists sharing a common theory doesn't necessarily make them factually correct. If that were true we'd all be in a deep freeze by now.
Douglas Reynolds
Minden
The way that Max and his project were treated in Carson City was a disgrace and blatantly foolish. By blocking this casino, special-interest businesses locally cost the city millions in revenue and many, many jobs. I have noted many businesses have elected to move their operations to Douglas County rather than staying in Carson City for a variety of reasons. Max's venture is the most recent and largest to do so. This project, even though not directly in Carson City, will still bring revenue and jobs to the city and now will also benefit Minden/Gardnerville as well. The whole area will become a famous tourist destination and will bring in even more revenue for Lake Tahoe, Reno and the ski resorts. In other words, this will help Carson City in spite of those foolish individuals who considered themselves too good for Max Baer and his celebrity status.
I urge the Douglas County Commission to swiftly approve this project so that construction may begin. I know that as a business owner here in Carson City, I will proudly take clientele to the casino and cinema that will be built on Highway 395. "The Beverly Hillbillies" was a beloved and wonderful sitcom that I enjoyed as a child. Jethro's Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino will become famous overnight, and I would wager that whole families will book vacations around this venture. What a boon to Douglas County and a blessing to business and the residents of Northern Nevada in general this will be.
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Carson City
Legislature has no business interfering in labor disputes
Let me get this straight.
The unions go on strike to apply economic pressure on the employer to grant their wishes. They are trying to shut down the employer and take away his financial livelihood - he has no other source of income.
So the employer locks out the remaining employees to apply economic pressure on them to accept his offer which is probably something less than what the employees are demanding. He is taking away their financial livelihood and they have no other source of income.
But wait! Along comes the Legislature who grants the locked out employee unemployment benefits. Where is the employer's unincome benefits?
The employer's economic pressure tool is removed. The Legislature is unfairly interfering with the labor dispute activities.
And, who pays the unemployment benefits? The employer.
Is there not something wrong here?
Stuart Posselt
Minden
Divisive argument over global warming cause for skepticism
I'd like to respond to Cory King's letter regarding global warming and it being a political issue. Al Gore's movie could be 100 percent correct or not, I have no clue. I know a majority of scientists feel that global warming is being caused by man, but the fact that it is such a politically divisive argument makes me skeptical.
Influential advocates of the manmade warming theory are threatening the careers of highly accredited scientists who voice alternative theories. Merely having an open mind about different possibilities is ridiculed. Something is amiss there, and it flies in the face of science itself.
Had this effort to oppress alternative theories been going on the '70s when I was in high school, we may not have the very scientists who warn us of global warming now. The prevailing thought back then was that the earth was entering a manmade ice age due to pollutants reducing sunlight. If the current theory is correct, had scientists at the time been strong-armed to abandon further study they would have not found that the cooling theory was wrong and that the earth was actually warming.
The 30 years since that opposite theory and the 50 years that warming has been studied in depth are both blips in the eons of time. Those believing in manmade warming should continue their research unabated, but so should the other side. A majority of scientists sharing a common theory doesn't necessarily make them factually correct. If that were true we'd all be in a deep freeze by now.
Douglas Reynolds
Minden
