WEEK IN REVIEW: Reporters’ notebook

If the unfinished Harmon tower at CityCenter is doomed to be demolished, why not make an event out of it?

Here, courtesy of the Week in Review staff, are a few creative ways to knock it down in style:

1. Put a real estate sign out front declaring the property "bank owned." Watch it collapse from copper thefts and neglect.

2. With reality TV show cameras rolling, let contestants take turns removing crucial parts of the tower's support structure. "Tonight on 'Extreme Jenga!' ..."

3. Make it the host site for NBA All-Star Weekend.

4. Three words: Vdara death ray.

5. Sneak it into Lonnie Hammargren's backyard in the middle of the night. See if anyone notices.

6. Invent metal-eating termites. Pump them full of meth.

7. Can a building die from Legionnaires' disease?

8. Don't care how you do it. Just make sure it takes out the monorail on its way down.

While reviewing the responsibilities of the superintendent, School Board Trustee Deanna Wright was stopped dead by the wording of a directive asking the superintendent to take care of the school district's assets, including its "plants and equipment."

"I don't know that plants, meaning shrubs and things, is the same as equipment," Wright said. "So I pulled that out."

"Let me just say that plants doesn't mean shrubs," said Carolyn Edwards, the president of the School Board.

"What does it mean?" Wright asked.

"It means buildings," Edwards said.

"Oh, plants!" Wright said. "Well, that's not the way I read it."

JAMES HAUG

TWEET OF THE WEEK: @startswithanx (Review-Journal fashion writer Xazmin Garza) Second time I've worn this skirt. Second time it's blown COMPLETELY up in front of some random dude. There's your tip, Mr. Valet.