Vegas Tech, We Need To Talk

Re:Vegas Tech, We Need To Talk by edraferi on Monday June 17, 2013 @10:49PM (#5897237)

True enough, but just because it comes up often doesn't make it a solved problem. In fact, I think it comes up so often because it's so damn hard to get right. To the extent that the author is advocating for better communication and transparency, I think that's probably a good step in the right direction.

Of course there's a whole OTHER discussion here: private vs public city planning. Is it really a good thing for a single investor to drive so much of the development? Where is the local government? It seems that a city council of some kind should be able to weigh in on behalf of the larger "community"

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Re:Vegas Tech, We Need To Talk by jzellis on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:02PM (#5897276)

Yeah, that's part of the problem. There's zero accountability. And in Vegas, local government is only concerned with economic improvement -- everything else takes a backseat.

We're talking about a city where the former mayor (whose wife is now the current mayor) made it illegal to give food to homeless people. Swear to God.

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Re:Vegas Tech, We Need To Talk by edraferi on Monday June 17, 2013 @11:07PM (#5897297)

Really? That's.. pretty bad. Sounds like China during the Olympics.

My first reaction was "vote the bastards out," but then: casinos. Maybe you can get a tech company to help crowdfund a new mayor who will constrain tech investment? Wait...

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