Today's Opinions

This letter comes as a brief update on misleading information I have heard around the community. Unfortunately, misleading information turns into rumors spread and some individuals use this false information for their own personal gain with efforts to work against the city and its current efforts. I want to put some of these rumors to rest and assure you that the governing body and administration is working hard to make Las Vegas a better place for all of us to live now and in the future.

Peaceful Skies Coalition was mistakenly identified as supporting the effort to stop the recall of mayor Ortiz in a recent political ad in the Las Vegas Optic.

Our organization does not take a position on whether or not there should be a recall. The individuals signing the petition were speaking for themselves alone, not as representatives of Peaceful Skies Coalition.

Richard McCracken
Peaceful Skies Coalition
 

Edward Albee got it absolutely right in his play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” When one of George and Martha’s guests asked if she could use the restroom, George said to Martha, “Will you show our little guest to the — uh — euphemism?”
Euphemism? That’s the perfect word. It means “a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.”