You know, we have a beautiful highway landscaping redevelopment in our downtown. We have desert tortoises and beautiful paintings of flora and fauna. These punks come along and deface it.… I’m saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb. That may be the right thing to do.
—Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, offering a modest proposal Wednesday on a Nevada talk show. Another panelist on the show, State University System Regent Howard Rosenberg, suggested that Goodman “use his head for something other than a hat rack.”
—Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen Victor Tan Chen is In The Fray's editor in chief and the author of Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy. Site: victortanchen.com | Facebook | Twitter: @victortanchen
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