Las Vegas Sun

The paper quoted John Silva, who was a featured speaker at the March 2 Nevada Taxpayers Association's annual meeting, saying that: "You will recover again. It is a nature of the game. ... You had your first accident, and now you have a choice ... Are you going to learn from your first accident and be more cautious, be thoughtful and think ahead a little bit? Or are you going to drive like a teenager all over again and get into another accident? That is the challenge you have going forward."

The state doesn't know what its strengths and weaknesses are and what direction it is heading, and the biggest challenge is deciding what Nevadans want the state to look like in the next 20 to 30 years, Silva said. According to his comments printed in the Las Vegas Sun, Southern Nevada would see its population grow once the economy recovers, but the region must decide how it is going to control that development with limited resources such as water.

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