The Las Vegas library had a puppet show near an area in North Las Vegas where homeless families live out of cars with their children sleeping in the backseat. The cars can’t go anywhere. Gas has hit over $4.00 per gallon. Schools are out. Students are encouraged to go fight in Iraq before the troops are pulled out. When the troops leave, there will no jobs back in America. Young girls had babies before their husbands headed off to Baghdad, Iraq. Teenage parents at the library complain of being kicked out of the shopping malls, because the security guards were alerted to the fact that the same mother came to the mall everyday to push her stroller, but never bought anything. This bothered store owners, managers, and clerks that accused the young mothers of loitering. Las Vegas is no place for children. So I have to get out of here. I came to Las Vegas as a single man. Never once did I think about the relationship between Las Vegas and children. Or Las Vegas and families. The doctors that give children shots complain of asthma brought on by breathing problems. Las Vegas is a valley filled with ozone, particle pollution, and pollen. The busiest days are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Many of the roads leading out of Las Vegas to Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles turn into two lanes. The flood causes a backup. Las Vegas freeways literally turn into parking lots. The traffic goes nowhere. The smog goes everywhere. Children can’t breath fresh air with a combination of smog, 24 hour air conditioning ozone refrigerants, and pollution blown into Nevada from the most polluted towns in the United States: Los Angeles’ San Bernadino County and Bakersfield. The two counties are at the top of America’s toxic pollution list with Houston, Texas arriving at third due to the oil refineries that Texas regulators endorse. If I don’t get out of Las Vegas, my son is guaranteed breathing problems.
Reporting from Las Vegas, Nevada as the crowds from Colorado arrive daily.
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