The Las Vegas Sun had a fair chunk of its Sunday offering filled up with the prospect that grounds filled with fossils in northern Nor'Town may be protected as a national monument under the National Park Service.

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The Las Vegas Sun had a fair chunk of its Sunday offering filled up with the prospect that grounds filled with fossils in northern Nor'Town may be protected as a national monument under the National Park Service.

One might wonder why Greenspun, Inc., would be so excited. After all, if you have a gander at the proposed map, the proposed park would severely cut into the usual casino/tenement construction/home-building carpet-bombing that seems to be at the heart of the company's plans for the city.

But then, the map tells another story, too, since the Greenspun/Aliante Station casino and hotel would be at the front door of a national monument. The joint would be nicely poised to rent rooms and bingo cards to Ice Age groupies.

Some of the latter-day converts to the plan were a bit surprising.The Nor'Townie mayor seemed unperturbed by the possible loss of casino/tenement land. All the more surprising given just as recently as a week or so ago she was trying to shove that half-baked plan for a tenement city around the "island" at Lake Mead near I-15 down the throats of her fellow councilfolk. They, however, ignored the siren call of the lawyer-lobbyist for the developer and decided to put out an open request for proposals for the area. (Sun)

The mayor, too, is spearheading the movement to build a pipeline from the central counties in a effort to turn Utah into a dustbowl so the valley can grow and grow and grow with rhyme or reason.

Maybe she didn't like her stint at BYU? Left some enemies back in Utah?

And, say, anybody wonder about having a shooting park right smack in the middle of the monument? Isn't that where the Clark County Shooting Park will be? With all that left over lead leeching into the wash?

Oh, well, all such concerns will be labeled sour grapes by the publisher-developer-industrial complex running the city. Nonetheless, kudos to the Tule Springs Protectorate for their success and Godspeed to the memorial.

Let's just hope they don't end up calling Sheepdip Drive "Memorial Parkway" and blast it right through the park.

And, gee, do you think a McCain administration would have been as supportive?