Quantum Entanglement (A Love Story)
The fact that the Strip technically sits outside Las Vegas city limits in an unincorporated area (mostly Paradise, NV) comes down to a classic story of money, taxes, and clever positioning.
Here is why that layout exists and what the benefits are:
1. Massive Tax Avoidance (The Original Hustle)
Back in the 1940s and 50s, early casino developers wanted to build massive luxury resorts but didn't want to pay Las Vegas city taxes or face strict city regulations. By building just south of the city line, they stayed under county jurisdiction (Clark County).
The Win: They completely avoided the municipal tax codes of the city, saving millions of dollars that could be funneled directly back into expansion and massive entertainment budgets.
2. Total Control Over Local Governance
When the City of Las Vegas tried to annex the area in 1950 to grab a piece of that skyrocketing casino revenue, the resort owners struck first. Led by casino tycoon Gus Greenbaum, they petitioned the county commissioners to form their own unincorporated town, which they named Paradise.
The Win: This gave the casinos immense political leverage. They essentially created a local government wrapper tailored specifically to protect the gaming and tourism industry, with no residential voters to push back against zoning laws, noise levels, or massive structural footprints.
3. Dedicated County Infrastructure
Because the Strip is the economic engine of the entire state, Clark County treats it with absolute priority. Unincorporated Paradise has its own dedicated police bureau (LVMPD's Strip Area Command) and a world-class fire and rescue framework optimized purely for handling massive high-rise resorts and high-density crowds.
The Win: The resorts get elite, hyper-focused public services without having to share or compete for a standard city budget that would otherwise be split across residential parks, schools, and neighborhood roads.
I was 10 years old
Doin' all that I could
Wasn't easy for me to be a scared white boy in a black neighborhood
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card with a $5 bill
Yeah I never understood you, Dad, and I guess I never will
the song is pretty mid
the band hits but is also pretty mid
the 90s were more mid than people remember
i used to crank out ~35 blog posts per hour
i was a unit. but those days are gone forever, i should just let'em go...
(The Ataris version of Boys of Summer is alright, I dunno the theme of the song makes me cringe as does thinking about the song but I could still stomach listening to it once a year.)
I'm 3 hours into this game and so far it is the best I've ever played pretty much. I want to walk around the woods to find some animals to kill, maybe smoke a cigar i dunno i have a few on me...but the women are restless so i'm taking a few of them into town on a wagon.
It appears to be a game with a rich story and main plotline, but also a game where you can walk in any direction and experience something fun that feels alive.
What is better and more needed than larping around The Old West anyway?? Especially in this 2026 dystopian nightmare we call the present.
would be nice if i could ban the topic of actors/movies/"entertainment" from my twitter. i could go the rest of my life without watching another movie and not care.
I'm 3 hours into this game and so far it is the best I've ever played pretty much. I want to walk around the woods to find some animals to kill, maybe smoke a cigar i dunno i have a few on me...but the women are restless so i'm taking a few of them into town on a wagon.It appears to be a game with a rich story and main plotline, but also a game where you can walk in any directi
Arthur Morgan is a great character; more fleshed out than many movie protagonists. And he works as a paladin or a psychopath, which is an amazing bit of writing.
