RE:
OUR TOWN ADVISORY BOARD AND CITIZEN PARTICIPATION
(December 1st, 2009)
I recently read Mr. Frank Pilz’s letter to the Editor and your response. I concur with the majority of the items discussed; however, I feel I must comment on a couple of points.
First of all, we never had a “right to vote” to elect the Laughlin Town Advisory Board (LTAB). In Ordinance 490, which was signed in February, 1976 and formed the unincorporated town of Laughlin, it states that the LTAB will be appointed by the Clark County Commissioners. At that time, the citizens did not push to have the LTAB elected, which was an option as provided in NRS 269.576. Had they done so, we would have the “right to vote” today for the LTAB. It is my belief that we are the victim of our own negligence.
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RE:
WATER DISTRICT BILLING FORMULAS
(November 28th, 2009)
Proposed Water District Billing Formulas
In July of this year, Bronson Mack of the Las Vegas Valley Water District/Big Bend Water District made a comprehensive presentation of the Water District’s $12 MILLION capital improvement requirements for the Township of Laughlin.
The presentation included a billing scenario which was ill received by both the members of the Laughlin Economic Development Corporation and the residents. Bronson, both in that meeting, and in subsequent meetings and conversations, has encouraged all individuals and entities to submit their suggestions for billing scenarios. The issue is really one of fairness - who should pay the bulk of expansion; current users or new developments; residential or non-residential. There needs to be a formula that is fair among all parties.
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RE:
CHANGES IN LAUGHLIN TRASH COLLECTION
(November 27th, 2009)
My understanding from the Town Advisory Board Meeting was all that was needed to bring the new recycle program to Laughlin was a letter from the Town of Laughlin requesting the program. So I assumed that a real quest to get Laughlin's true response would be launched. By your article it appears that the Town Board thinks that they represent the people of Laughlin and were going to act in their behalf. Are they now the City Council? I don't remember voting them in to office.
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Voting
This Wednesday Will Speak Truth To Power
(March 30th, 2009)]
This Wednesday Laughlin citizens will have yet another
opportunity to vote for local representatives. An ad hoc straw poll will be held from 7:00 A.M. until 7:00 P.M. at
the Laughlin Community Church
at 2910 Needles Highway,
next door to the Mobil Gas Station. Every registered voter is eligible to cast
a vote. As I said back in October, it really does matter who sits on the
Town Advisory Board. Many have felt that the Occupation has become a fact of
life and we’re helpless to do anything about. And yet already, one illegitimate
Board member has been forced to resign. So everyone needs to vote. For
the record, I will once again list the candidates I endorse – and why.
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Testimony
Before The Nevada
Assembly Committee of Government Affairs
(March 27th, 2009 )
Last Monday I exercised my right as a citizen and traveled to the Grant Sawyer State Building in Las Vegas as did two other somewhat more prominent Laughlin residents, Former Laughlin Town Advisory Board Chair Kathy Ochs and Dick McCall who has been active in civic affairs for many, many years. We were there to support Assembly Bill 383 which would allow Laughlin residents to choose the option to incorporate. Below is the text of the comments I made.
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A
Key Social Service in Laughlin Now Has No Choice
(February 1st, 2009)
I’ve never been a particularly fervent proponent of government solutions to societal problems. Ronald Reagan’s voice still rings true to my ear when I recall the words from his 1981 inaugural address, "Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem." But conservatives have their compassionate side as well. If you survey most reasonable people and ask them if they support giving welfare to people, a majority will say no, but if you rephrase the question and ask the same people, should the government help the truly needy, a majority will also agree. And that’s where we stand today with trying to find an alternative to our gutted mental health clinic. It’s broke, broken and discredited.
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What’s
Next? Separate Drinking Fountains?
(January 26th, 2009)
In 1787 our nation crafted a political compromise at our Constitutional Convention that was not one of our nation’s finer moments. It was known as the Three Fifths Compromise. Reduced to its most basic, it said slaves counted as three fifths of a person for voting, not that they could vote in the first place of course. Steve Sisolak seems to think that the serfs of Laughlin should be happy with his own Two Fifths Compromise.
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Preparing
For A Long Protracted War
(January 22nd, 2009)
THE LAUGHLIN
HERALD APOLOGIZES FOR THE DELAY IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION
Over forty of Laughlin’s dedicated citizens made the trip to speak to the Clark County Board of Commissioners this last Tuesday. We made this town’s opinions heard in a dignified but firm manner. But the reaction of Commissioner Steve Sisolak afterwards made it clear that he will not budge in his dictatorial abolition of our voting rights. He has already tried to co-opt some citizens to give the impression that some compromise offering us second class citizenship would be magnanimous. Rosa Parks wouldn’t accept that and neither should we.
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This
Tuesday Laughlin Will Be Occupied By A Hostile and Illegitimate Government
(January 11th, 2009)
This Tuesday at the Laughlin Town Hall, a dark day will dawn. As Eastern Europe collapsed in the vanguard of Communist
armies in the waning days of the Second World War, the people of that
unfortunate part of the world had governments, not of their choice, imposed on
them against their will. On this Tuesday in history, that grim scenario will
play out again in our own community.
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