Newspaper corrections (personal pronouns edition)
Here’s the opening of a story published earlier today by Dan Ball at KVBC News 3 Las Vegas, entitled Few new City Hall obstacles remain
It looks like the city of Las Vegas may soon get a new City Hall.
No, we won’t.
Last I checked, the city government in Las Vegas will soon get a new City Hall.
The rest of us in the city of Las Vegas aren’t getting anything, except the $185,000,000 bill for Oscar Goodman’s new office.
For six years, chef John Simons has operated Firefly restaurant on Paradise and Flamingo. Four months ago he opened a second location inside the Plaza hotel downtown. Simmons says he supports a new City Hall.
I’m hoping that we can develop kind of a really cool, vital downtown scene, ya know?
Because nothing says really cool
and vital
in a downtown scene
like municipal government office buildings.
Betsy Fretwell is the city manager for the city of Las Vegas.
If we can move the City Hall from its current location we will be able to create about $4 billion in private investment in the downtown area and create over 13,000 jobs over the period of time and over four projects.
Well, hell, why don’t we just move the City Hall every year? Why not build a new one every month? Just imagine how much private investment and how many jobs all that new construction could create.
The project is estimated at about $185 million. Fretwell says the city can afford to pay for it.
You do have to evaluate what you can afford. We’ve done that, we’ve done a full feasibility report for the City Council. …
Actually, what’s happening here is that she does the evaluating. We do the affording.
Whether we want to or not.
Betsy Fretwell doesn’t have to afford a damned thing; she evaluates,
and we’re forced to pay up whether we reckon we can afford it or not.
Hence, this massive screwjob against Las Vegas workers, in order to fund a ridiculous and obviously self-serving local government boondoggle.
