In the Question of the Day for 9/23/2014, regarding cracks in the Las Vegas Monorail’s supporting columns (if you didn’t read it, fear not - they are merely superficial flesh wounds), we promised we would attempt to track down a copy of a very interesting account of the project’s history, originally published in the now-defunct CityLife alt weekly. As luck would have it, thanks to a chance encounter at G2E, here it is! But first, a little "front" (as opposed to back) story, so to speak, since we couldn't help but feel a little chintzy to merely post a link to other people's work as today's answer. (It may be the weekend, but QoD seldom sleeps, outside of our annual Christmas and New Years's Day vacations :-)

I was in Vegas last week, and I noticed many of the columns supporting the Monorail are cracked. I was wondering if this might be another problem for this beleaguered endeavor?

This week’s "Sample Sunday" spotlights one of the landmark books in the Huntington Press line, Madam—Inside a Nevada Brothel by Lora Shaner, a former Sheri’s Ranch madam, a job title that’s effectively a catch-all for a combination of hostess, shift supervisor, bookkeeper, house mother, juggler, and cop.

In a recent QoD regarding safety riding the bus, you said, "....this city has some distinctly dubious neighborhoods...." Care to tell us exactly which neighborhoods we should stay away from?

How safe is riding the bus on the Strip and downtown?

We are handicapped. May a person from another state bring their handicap sticker with them and use it on a rental car?

I was looking at the revenue from the Consolidated Facility Charge (CFC) at McCarran Airport and the number did not make sense to me. For fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013), the CFC brought in $36,166,000. At $3.75 per day, that is 9,644,267 rental car days. If an average rental is five days (probably less) that is 1,928,853 car rentals. With 11 companies in the Rent-A-Car center and 365 days per year, that works out to 480 rentals each day at each rental car company or 20 rentals per hour per company. That just does not sound right. Any insight into the CFC totals? Also, is there any reason why we still have to pay that when the original purpose of the fee was to finance the building and facilities? That has to be paid off by now.

In today’s (1/23/14) QOD you refer to Vegas hyperboles including: "smallest video poker bar." Never heard of it; fill us in.

Yesterday I went to the Container Park and across the street was a fenced lot full of Airstream trailers. What's up with that?

How many taxicabs are there in Las Vegas?