It's just as important as having a major league baseball team or an academic medical center, ... It creates a sense of sophistication in the community.

There could be no better time or place for this Welcome Home party than in Las Vegas during our 2005 Centennial celebration, ... Las Vegas is proud of our servicemen and women and equally proud of our veterans. We anticipate a 2005 Veterans Day parade and air show that will go down in the history books.

It's so unfair because the centennial committee wanted to present this very special event available to everybody free of charge,

We're all keeping our fingers crossed.

[Mayor Goodman says the development is not a set back.] No set back at all. That's the important thing here. ... They felt in the particular market that we have here with the costs of labor going up, with the cost of materials going up that they couldn't make that commitment so I said let's call it a day.

We determined there were best practices that could be adopted as a result of their presentation,