I don't question their right to voice any opinion, but argue that such statements as "Better yet, just yell "INS" or "Police" and watch them all flee at the polling places come November," is racist, and have no place on this web site. As for the use of Hussein, yes it is the Senator's middle name, but the constant referral of the Senator as Hussein Obama rather than Barack Obama, or Senator Obama is clearly meant to identify him as Muslim, which he is not. It is a rather underhanded, and uneducated slur. As a republican I find it repugnant. Go find your own web sites.

To whom it may concern;

I have recently become abhorred at the increasing level of bigoted and hateful postings by one of your readers using the name GOD. In recent days he has countlessly evoked the need to shout INS and POLICE at voting ballots to watch Sen. Barack Obama's supporters "all flee at the polling places come November," as well as using Sen. Obama's middle name Hussein. Other gems from this poster include applauding Sen Kennedy's brain tumor and attacking two women who recently graduate from college by overcoming immense odds being first generation Mexican-Americans. While I full support "GOD's" right to voice his/her opinion, it is your responsibility to ensure that your newspaper does not continuously print such racist and slanderous postings.

I have not read such a blatantly racist comment as the one above. By evoking hatred of three racial groups the poster has crossed the line, and needs to be restricted from posting any further posts.

Gordon makes two very important points not covered by the Sun's series yet. At the center of the debate over water in Southern Nevada is the dated Colorado River Compact of 1922, which allocates a measly 300,000 acre feet to Nevada. In comparison Wyoming, a state with a population of a little over half a million people receives 1.05 million acre feet. The problem is that the compact does not reflect the reality of contemporary need, and must be rewritten. Of course all of the other states involved in the compact, including Utah which gets 1.73 million acre feet of Colorado River Water, and has a population of 2.6 million people, refuse to even think about such a possibility until the SNWA exhausts all of its instate possibilities, forcing the agency's pursuit of northern water right. Ironically, Utah is now protesting the Snake Valley project when all they have to do to solve the problem is give up some of their Colorado River water.

The second point is economics. Rural sections of the West do not, and cannot, compete with urban areas economically. This is a growing reality in Nevada and has done a lot to shape the current budget crisis and lackluster governance by both parties. Vegas is the economic motor of Nevada, and it is understandable that it should receive more of the pie. Something that will not happen as long as the North retains its choke hold over power and water in the state.

Wow, what an amazingly bad idea at exactly the wrong time. They want to cut taxes during the largest budget shortfall in the state's history? And people signed it? Where, pray tell, are we going to get the money to pay for schools, roads, prisons, schools, and oh, schools. The property tax issue in California stemmed from huge economic growth, something that will not happen here until we start investing in the state. Sigh, I am losing hope that Nevada will wake up in time to save itself.