LETTER: Dead grass, trees everywhere

Recently, I photographed the latest mini-neighborhood grass park, dead and crunchy from Roundup QuickPRO and stolen from Las Vegas residents by the Southern Nevada Water Authority. I asked a father walking by if he used this little grass area with one bench and mostly rocks. “All the time,” he said. “My daughter and I play Frisbee here. Why is the grass dead?” I told him why: The water authority had determined it was “non-functional.”

I wonder how many legislators would have voted for Assembly Bill 356, let alone sponsored it, if they had been shown the acres of dead grass in our valley parks and dead and dying trees all over that would result. Why don’t we ask them? What legislators were told about the intent of this law, and what water authority officials have actually done with the power given them, constitutes a breach of the public trust.