"With its CityCenter resort set to open..."
Really? All of the "CityCenter resort" is "set to open?" Is this a joke? Are they handing out kool-aid to Sun reporters?
It still looks more like CityCrater to me.

Of course the more ambitious train to Anaheim would take longer than the hokey line to Victorville. Reid knew that when he supported the more ambitious maglev.

The London, New York, Boston, Moscow subways took decades to build. Cathedrals and other monuments in Europe sometimes took centuries.

But there will be no long-term projects for Las Vegas. No, sir. Not so long as there's quick money to be put into Rogich's pockets and campaign support for Harry Reid.

Applying 18 U.S.C. 1346 to Senator Reid is long overdue.

The key to getting what you want in Nevada is to cut Rogich in on the deal. Rogich makes the phone calls.

This time Rogich called Senator Reid and even formed a "Republicans for Reid" committee. Reid then held his press conference dropping his support for maglev in support of Rogich's benefactors.

Examples abound. This is how we became burdened with the bankrupt Las Vegas Monorail.

And how Rogich made money on the LVCVA billboard concession. Etc, etc. The only time the strategy is known to have failed concerned a Stations Casino zoning application in North Las Vegas, where Rogich's angry phone call to the chairman of the gaming policy review committee was a day late.

Las Vegas has grown, but it has yet to grow up. In fact, it has grown too fast. Partly because one half the residents here at any given time have been here less than 10 years and either don't know or don't care, Boss Tweed is still in charge.

Here's how it all happened:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3xGtjhZ_...

Adding to mar100 and goingbust above:
Broadbent and Friends (BF) took the concept of a Vegas monorail from the RTC, which had brought its monorail project to the point of public meetings for comment. BF saw what they thought was an opportunity to make money, so convinced the County Commission to dump the RTC project, which would have served locals for lower construction costs and formed the backbone for east-west public transportation, which is where the real need is in this valley. Killing the RTC project, the BF monorail just took what it thought would be the lucrative Strip portion.
Hence, the failed Las Vegas Monorail.

The idea, as I recall, was for the company to keep a cash reserve sufficient to tear it all down if it did not become profitable, so that there would be no chance of a public bail out.

It's time now to use that reserve for its intended purpose.

Public money is, of course, used to subsidize public transportation around the world, but the Las Vegas Monorail is not public transportation. Its purpose was never to serve the public. If any reader here has ever used it to get from point A to point B, please speak up. The purpose was to serve BF.

One reason the Strip can't handle the traffic is that the County Commission has granted variance after variance to allow casino developers to push their projects all the way out to the curb. Setback requirements are only for little people.
Even to the point of knowingly forcing tourists to push their baby carriages through the gutter alongside heavy traffic along then Steve Wynn's Treasure Island. After about a year, a narrow sidewalk was finally built alongside, but people still find it necessary there to walk in the street.

One reason why you don't see a pedestrian mall on the Strip is that casino owners don't want free, open space out there. Even downtown, the concept was to turn Fremont street into a private arena under private control and clutter it up with kiosks. Witness New Year's Eve on the Strip: Metro cordons off the center, fills it with squad cars and permits primarily only passageways on either side. The owners are deathly afraid of real public pedestrian activity on Las Vegas Boulevard. Just look at the flies they draw there already.

The monorail today is nothing more than an obstruction down the middle of Paradise Road. It's time to tear it down.

So why do Nevada regulators look the other way when it's obvious that Pansy Ho is just a front-woman for her daddy who, she admits, is putting up the money?

Because they're pansies and hos.

"In a way that's fair for both parties." Good luck, Mr. Mack.

You're not dealing here with Mother Theresa. Google "medieval dictatorship" and "slave society" to see how City Center's real owner, Sheik Mohammed, runs things at home. Don't expect anything different over here.

And don't expect any sympathy over here, either, for anyone who would contract with MGM-Dubai-Stanley/Pansy Ho.

New Jersey investigators have now concluded that the State should have nothing to do with an organization that includes Stanley/Pansy Ho and their connections to organized crime. They have yet even to review the Dubai dictatorship part of the triumvirate, which IS organized crime.

Someone once said that MGM was sleeping with the devil, but couldn't say who was on top. Or on the bottom or in the middle.

A clinic like this should be located closer to its clients. Since, by definition, they won't own cars, and since getting there from the center of poverty in this valley -- vegas/north las vegas border -- by our bus system would take about 3 hours, the Paradise Park location makes no sense.

The real problem is not so much the location, but the fact that, so far, this would be the only such clinic. Having one at Paradise Park wouldn't be a problem if the truly needy areas were also served. Once the real poverty areas have been served, we could look at Paradise Park for, say, clinic number 3 or 4. Paradise Park is a very bad location for clinic #1, which may end up being the only such clinic in our lifetimes.

Another problem is that we have so few parks. The City of Las Vegas has already destroyed or closed two of the finest - Circle Park and the one that now sits under the Sawyer State Building - primarily because the open public space was being used by those who need it the most. (More murders occur at Caesars Palace, NYNY, etc., than at our public parks, and they attract more "low-lifes" than any other type of gathering place, but we don't shut THEM down.)

This community lacks a lot of things. Including more parks. Displacing public park space for free clinics, or free clinics for public parks, or art districts for more casinos, doesn't get us where we need to go.

The park location for the first, and likely only, free clinic is not in the best interests of the medical needs of this community.

The problem locally is that our city leaders want to create a supply where there's no demand. There has never been a thriving historic downtown in any of our communities, but the real problem is transportation. Thriving historic downtowns exist all over the world, but only where subways and streetcars zip you to them. The City of Las Vegas' attempts at "community redevelopment" have never been anything other than casino redevelopment. Our only example of what works around here is Town Square. It's in a suburb, it invites people to at least a small central park, there are no casinos or poker machines, and it was created according to feasibility, not fantasy.

Regarding 1st comment re house in Vegas: can't blame him - the cocktail girls are prettier here.
He doesn't have to reside in the mansion, or even within crawling distance, but the law requires the Governor to reside in Carson City. It is questionable whether a person who does not reside in Carson City may hold the office of governor.