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EDITORIAL: STORIES

   
"...A new house gets built here on average every 20 minutes, and even that is not enough to keep up with the convoy of moving vans rolling into town."-The New York Times, May 30, 2004
   
"Growth right now is simply unmanageable. You can’t build the roads fast enough, we’re opening a school every month. Until you have seen those places that you thought were so far out in the desert you’d never want to go, all of a sudden being small cities in and of themselves, you can’t imagine how quickly this has happened."-Judge Gerry Hardcastle, from an interview on nytimes.com/lasvegas
     
  
"Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale." -Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, on sailing up the Colorado River to a point near the present location of Las Vegas, in 1857 (from Cadillac Desert)