My View From Las Vegas
Friday, December 27, 2002
 
As we now stand our fair city is slowly but incessantly filling up with those early revelers who are getting a head start on the New Year's celebration. This is something of the feeling I would imagine that permeates the atmosphere in many places just before the onslaught of a hurricane, or huge snowstorm. There is a certain calmness amoungst the local residents because they know that there is always an ede to the celebrants and the mayhem that just a small number of them may cause, deliberately or simply by accidental overexuberance. Two years ago a young man fell to his death on live TV while he was climbing up on a structure which was meant for lighting and signals. Crowd control becomes an issue, and todays local paper is full of the warnings and missgivings about crowd control because the VENETIAN HOTEL has just announced some last minute show which will bring crowds to the public thoroughfares directly in front of the STRIP property. Oh well, don't anyone be discouraged, in my view it is METRO POLICE DEPT. hedging their bets against the outside chance they might be caught out of the essential preparedness loop. Come to Las Vegas now and you will have a blast, Neil Diamond tonight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Is he 110 or so, see him tonight, his show is fab, and he is a real throwback to an older more cherished period in our city's history. I will keep you up to the minute as the excitement and tension build right into the New Year and afterwards.Don't forget that we are also considered prime targets as terrorist know that Las Vegas reserves a unique worldwide recognition as a dateline. Stay Tuned.


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