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LETTER: Downtown Las Vegas parks and the homeless

Las Vegas’ new Urban Central Park should be designed as a homeless shelter because all the parks in downtown Las Vegas have become camps for the needy over the past decade. Until the city and county take steps to alleviate the increasing number of homeless people, including families, parks will remain the only refuge for the homeless.

That $47 million the city is spending on the new plaza could be better spent creating a homeless housing or rehabilitation center on land already owned by the city or county. Entrepreneurs on YouTube have shown that they can build tiny mobile housing units for homeless people at the cost of $2,000 a unit.

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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.

LETTER: Columbia kids need to learn to pay their 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.