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LETTER: The environmental downsides of solar energy

I read with interest that MGM Resorts has 640 acres for solar panels to provide power to 90 percent of its hotel operations (“MGM to activate solar power array today,” Monday Review-Journal). While I am all for alternative power sources, plastering Nevada with these unsightly panels demonstrates the casino industry’s disdain for our desert habitat.

What is the plan in the future for all hotels? Is Las Vegas and the adjacent area to be covered with solar panels? It seems from an environmental standpoint the turtles, rabbits, wild horses and burros that make the desert their home will be exterminated to provide power for Las Vegas visitors. Is this the only answer the government can come up with?

The turtles are being relocated but the horses and burros are being exterminated. Is there no respect for our desert habitat by the big corporations? Where are the environmentalists hiding?

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So more than three years after the riot, the government is still using taxpayer money and manpower in its vendetta to ferret out Donald Trump supporters.

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Frankly, if I had kids at Columbia who participated in these “protests,” I’d yank them out of school, toss their stuff onto the lawn and tell them to get a job, go live in the real world and pay your own way.

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In the 2020 election, Mr. Biden ran on promises he has failed to keep. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.