Quote of the Day

“Clearly, there will be overbuilding and other costly mistakes if the boosterish mania for growth and promotion are not balanced by careful planning in the 1990s.” — historian Eugene Moehring, in his 1989 history of Las Vegas, Resort City in the Sunbelt. (A newer edition carries the narrative forward to the turn of the century.) In its epilogue, Moehring recites a sobering litany of infrastructural improvements that were planned circa 1988 but almost none of which came into being, save for the bankrupt, fragmentary Las Vegas Monorail.