The local labor union offered yesterday to loan the city up to 50% of a $250 million project- a brand new City Hall, on 1st. and Clark.
We'll try something different today, some real journalism. I'll give you some facts, and you tell me how you take them.
This is specifically to get some more comments going. The more I know about how you feel as readers, the better I'm able to direct my stories.
The Local 872 is willing to make this loan, citing public works projects from the Great Depression. This paints President Obama as the new FDR, allowing his Stimulus Plan to be drawn as parallel with Roosevelt's New Deal.
The practice is not unheard of, the laborers need to work, it's the unions job to ensure they do. But our unions are not always so altruistic. In the 60's, right here in Vegas, the Teamsters loaned considerable sums of money to Big Guns in the Mob to get the ball rolling on some of Old Vegas' glitziest casinos. This, in turn, puts Oscar Goodman in the same light as the mythical Jimmy Hoffa.
I'll keep my opinions to myself for now, but will gladly weigh in, in the Comments section if we get a good discussion going.
I'd be especially interested to hear something from a Laborer's point of view, if any member of the local 872 are hiding out in the readership.
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Why do we even need a new City Hall in the first place? I've never been, but from what I understand, the current building's not the greatest, but it's got offices and places to work. I'd like to see them budget that money for something else, something that would be of greater benefit to the People of Las Vegas.
ReplyDeleteI can't think of what that would be, because I really don't follow politics, other than your articles.