The Las Vegas Sun urged local lawmakers to resume efforts to rename Las Vegas’ airport after Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the former majority leader and political hard-baller who helped block construction of a permanent nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
McCarran International Airport was named for Sen. Patrick McCarran (D), who represented Nevada in the U.S. Senate for two decades starting in the early 1930s.
In a Sunday editorial, the left-leaning Las Vegas Sun urged local officials to attempt again, as one of them did in 2017, to strip McCarran’s name off the internationally renowned airport and put Reid’s up instead.
The octogenarian Reid, who has battled pancreatic cancer, retired from the Senate in 2016, but his familiar rallying cry on nuclear waste has sounded now and again in the Nevada press whenever debate spins up on permanent geological repositories: “Yucca Mountain is dead.”
