Las Vegas has some long-shots, but the odds seem high that the building trades would ever ask to curb the areas high-speed growth. And yet a union consortium under the moniker "Raising the Standards of Liberty" has asked for just that.
The group, which consists of area plumbers, plasterers, cement masons, teamsters and other trades, says it wants to slow residential construction in order to preserve water. Some claim the real purpose of the policy is organizing the citys fast-growing housing industry.