Letters to the editor: Readers’ takes on NV Energy plan, media treatment of Trump, unattainable housing costs

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Letters to the editor: Readers’ takes on NV Energy plan, media treatment of Trump, unattainable housing costs

We’ll pay for NV Energy’s follies Santa—embodied by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC)—gave NV Energy (NVE) everything it wanted for Christmas.  On Dec. 20, the PUC approved NVE’s Integrated Resource Plan. Included on NVE’s wish list were two gas-fired combustion turbines at a price tag of $573 million. NVE’s old-school strategy is to rely on the combustion of fossil fuels to provide electricity during times of peak demand. Their questionable…