Comments on: Get Your Kindness Out Of Here http://www.nighton.net/archives/get-your-kindness-out-of-here-07-24-2006-155 Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:10:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Riggleman http://www.nighton.net/archives/get-your-kindness-out-of-here-07-24-2006-155/comment-page-1#comment-41 David Riggleman Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:20:05 +0000 http://www.nighton.net/archives/get-your-kindness-out-of-here-07-24-2006-160#comment-41 <p>I find Mr. Pappa's comments most interesting, but hardly complete. He's right, Clark County has jurisdiction over much of the resort corridor in Las Vegas. However, its leadership also has the primary responsibility for dealing with social issues in the entire county, including homelessness. Perhaps if those efforts were better coordinated over the past years, entities like the city of Las Vegas would be less inclined to take such measures. Make no mistake, any failures in Las Vegas pertaining to homelessness begin with Clark County. Rather than pointing out differences between jurisdictions, perhaps the county should offer better workable solutions.</p> I find Mr. Pappa’s comments most interesting, but hardly complete. He’s right, Clark County has jurisdiction over much of the resort corridor in Las Vegas. However, its leadership also has the primary responsibility for dealing with social issues in the entire county, including homelessness. Perhaps if those efforts were better coordinated over the past years, entities like the city of Las Vegas would be less inclined to take such measures. Make no mistake, any failures in Las Vegas pertaining to homelessness begin with Clark County. Rather than pointing out differences between jurisdictions, perhaps the county should offer better workable solutions.

]]> By: Erik Pappa http://www.nighton.net/archives/get-your-kindness-out-of-here-07-24-2006-155/comment-page-1#comment-40 Erik Pappa Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:31:14 +0000 http://www.nighton.net/archives/get-your-kindness-out-of-here-07-24-2006-160#comment-40 <p>What many people do not realize is that the mayor of Las Vegas represents fewer than one-third of the residents of the Las Vegas Valley.</p> <p>Clark County – which is the jurisdiction holding sway over much of the area, including all of the Las Vegas Strip, the airport, the convention center, the university (those areas where the vast majority of tourists frequent) – has no intention of entertaining similar proposals banning the feeding of the homeless.</p> <p>For those of you who take exception to the mayor’s new law, please understand that many of us in the Las Vegas Valley also disagree with the mayor’s position.</p> <p>Addressing homelessness in a meaningful way requires a multifaceted and sustained approach since the needs of homeless individuals are varied. The mayor’s anti-feeding ordinance is not part of Clark County’s or the region’s approach to this complex challenge.</p> What many people do not realize is that the mayor of Las Vegas represents fewer than one-third of the residents of the Las Vegas Valley.

Clark County – which is the jurisdiction holding sway over much of the area, including all of the Las Vegas Strip, the airport, the convention center, the university (those areas where the vast majority of tourists frequent) – has no intention of entertaining similar proposals banning the feeding of the homeless.

For those of you who take exception to the mayor’s new law, please understand that many of us in the Las Vegas Valley also disagree with the mayor’s position.

Addressing homelessness in a meaningful way requires a multifaceted and sustained approach since the needs of homeless individuals are varied. The mayor’s anti-feeding ordinance is not part of Clark County’s or the region’s approach to this complex challenge.

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