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LETTERS: Tipping 'expert' a total cheapskate

To the editor:

Your Thursday article, "Tips on tips," will probably have most service industry employees enraged.


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  • The Review-Journal printed the opinions from some "experts" on guidelines for tipping. One such expert, the author of "Las Vegas For Dummies," must want the worst service ever. As a valet attendant at a local hotel/casino, I want this so-called expert to realize $1 was a tip given to a valet attendant 30 years ago.

    Does this seem like it should apply now? Maybe this "expert" should talk to people who actually do service jobs before offering her opinions.

    Mark Thomson

    LAS VEGAS

    Just take the ticket

    To the editor:

    I watched the entire coroner's inquest into the Henderson police shooting of the ice cream truck driver. Hearing comments from the ACLU's Gary Peck that the hearing was a sham and was manipulated by the district attorney totally disgusted me.

    If this woman's husband had simply taken and signed his citation, none of this would have happened and she would be alive. Now he is filing a lawsuit. Maybe Mr. Peck should ask this man why did he not obey the law like everyone else, and simply take the ticket and go to court if he thought he was not guilty. The ACLU should start to think about what the police officers have to face every day knowing that if they defend themselves, the ACLU will not stand behind them.

    Mary Manna

    HENDERSON

    Taken alive

    To the editor:

    Back in October, three Las Vegas police officers were shot by a man at an apartment complex. They took the man away alive.

    How is it that a Henderson police officer needed to shoot a mother, armed with a knife, in front of her children?

    Alex McConnell

    LAS VEGAS

    Coal-fired power

    To the editor:

    I applaud the Las Vegas Review-Journal's insightful April 15 editorial, "Against human prosperity."

    You are correct in pointing out that coal provides half of America's electricity. Just as important, North America has more than two centuries of coal reserves. With foreign energy sources causing increased economic and political turmoil, we should not ignore a plentiful resource in our own back yard.

    I am saddened by the comment you related from the Sierra Club's counsel regarding the intent to "clog up the system" with lawsuits. The misuse of due process procedures will not solve America's energy problems.

    While today's coal-fired power plants are dramatically cleaner in every respect than those built a few years ago, industry and environmentalists must work together to advance technology even further. Carbon capture and sequestration are on the precipice of practical application. We cannot afford to lose this momentum to legal and bureaucratic maneuvers.

    Brad Jones

    ALEXANDRIA, VA.

    THE WRITER IS WEST REGION COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR AMERICANS FOR BALANCED ENERGY CHOICES.

    Fox, meet hen

    To the editor:

    Would you invite the fox to move into your hen house? That's exactly what Dr. Rudy Manthei proposed when he says he would encourage the physicians who worked for Dr. Dipak Desai to practice at the two endoscopy facilities he is considering purchasing (Wednesday Review-Journal).

    It's ironic that an eye doctor has so little vision, and is willing to close his eyes to what went on at Dr. Desai's endoscopy centers.

    Dennis Hetherington

    LAS VEGAS

    Middle East peace

    To the editor:

    Efforts so far to broker peace between Israel and its neighbors have been a dismal failure. Even dialogue among the rivals has ceased.

    It seems unfair, then, for Israel and President Bush, whose diplomatic talents are limited, to condemn President Carter for talking to the leaders of Hamas and Arab countries during his recent visit to the Middle East.

    After all, it was President Lincoln who raised the question, "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

    Cornelius Harrington

    HENDERSON

    Just like old times

    To the editor:

    With the flap over the raid at the YFZ ranch in Eldorado, Texas, does anyone remember the famous Short Creek raid of 1953, when police from Arizona descended on Short Creek (now Colorado City) and carted off more than 200 minor children into "protective custody?"

    What are the odds that the children in Texas will ultimately (after all of the lawyers are through) be returned to their "families?"

    The more things change, the more they remain the same.

    Victor R. Kieser

    LAS VEGAS

    In denial

    To the editor:

    In your April 14 edition, an Associated Press report on the dismissal of 1,300 Iraqi soldiers and police officers who either deserted outright or refused to fight in Basra, despite U.S. artillery and air support, was placed on Page 13A. Previously, you gave front-page treatment to Gen. David Petraeus' hopeful projections.

    You buried the bitter truth. Can you say denial?

    Leric Goodman

    LAS VEGAS

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    Alex wrote on April 21, 2008 11:29 PM: Whateveryousaydear,



    I still don't get it. You named a woman that was shot wielding scissors,anothe woman shot and killed for wielding a steak knife. Why on God's green earth was the MAN armed to the teeth was not shot and killed? Is this a "It's easier to kill a woman than a Man?"


    Whateverusaydear wrote on April 21, 2008 09:25 PM: Actually, the police DID shoot a black woman recently near Lake Mead Blvd. and Martin Luther King... if memory serves me correctly she was wielding scissors (and of course there was the usual outcry because apparently a woman with a sharpened instrument is not considered a sufficient threat by some, but everyone is entitled to their opinion).

    The police don't take these serious for granted; is there any possibility that people will learn that if police tell you to drop (whatever you're wielding) you should cooperate and DROP it? I know if I don't I'm playing roulette with nothing positive to gain.


    jun cordero wrote on April 21, 2008 09:02 PM: Truth and War

    Are wars made to prolonged for all
    militaries to inject more to thier
    budget for economic gain and to
    enhance their promotions?

    Mr. Gates just sensed it yesterday.

    Holy Father messages were for seeking
    the truth thereby eliminating outlay
    for destruction and more for solving
    social ills.

    Jun Cordero


    0u812 wrote on April 21, 2008 08:10 PM: ou812 says i am wrong on Mike L and i re- read his post and with the second reading i was wrong. John F. you are correct, accept my apology.


    william D. Tomany wrote on April 21, 2008 02:43 PM: nuclear power is the way to go but it's expensive The French generate nearly 90 % of their electricity using nuclear reactors and reprocess their fuel rods over and over. We could too


    Don Evans wrote on April 21, 2008 02:16 PM: I see coal stocks did well today, based upon what industry insiders see as a forecast increase in demand..Imagine that. Let the fleecing begin.


    Mike L. wrote on April 21, 2008 01:26 PM: Tip the valet no more than $2 to park your car, unless you are a sucker.

    I hope Texas is bankrupted by 416 lawsuits for stealing children away from their parents.

    Giving money taken from US workers to Israel, so they can steal land from Palestinians, is immoral. Anyone who supports Israel is evil.

    They wouldn't have shot the ice-cream lady if she were black.


    John F wrote on April 21, 2008 11:09 AM: Ou812,

    I'm perfectly calm, and I won't let it be. Letting bigotry be is how we get Holocausts and lynchings.

    "Bigot, ignorant, racist does not belong on these post just write and disagree with his 1st amendent right."

    Actually, that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm disagreeing with Mike L's statements on the grounds that they're ignorant and bigoted.

    I'm not angry with either you or Mike L., just disgusted. Disgusted with him for spouting his bigoted statements and with you for your condescension and tolerance of Mike's bigotry.

    I desire neither your love nor your forgiveness, for as far as I know I've never wronged you. Further, I marvel at your ability to pass judgment on my life. Have we met?


    What ever wrote on April 21, 2008 10:27 AM: Hey, Mike L. Sig Hiel (Sp). Say hi to your buddy Osama bin Laden, and any other skin heads you hang out with.


    F.D wrote on April 21, 2008 09:28 AM: I worked in the tip industry (Casinos)for years and never expected a tip until I provided a service .Never asked a player for a tip until i has a rapport or knew if he or she was winning or losing. I remember when we tipped valet parking attendants when we came out of the hotel not having to pay to park the car before going into the hotel. It's always, "Sorry sir we're full" then when you produce a five dollar bill they tell you to pull right up there and we'll take care of you. Now it's tip going in and tip going out. Pretty sweet for a bunch of amateurs. The hotels should monitor the process since they are discouraging people from going inside.


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