WASHINGTON — A dispute over $16.5 million in airline subsidies to Ely and a dozen other rural communities led to a partial shutdown at midnight of the Federal Aviation Administration, putting 4,000 people temporarily out of work and suspending the collection of federal airline ticket taxes.
Sure, it destroyed property values and put thousands of people out of work, but the collapse of the local construction market wasn’t all bad. At least it saved some water.
Summer is here, and the home mortgage crisis continues to hang like acrid smoke across the Las Vegas Valley.
