Las Vegas’s power couple says goodbye to power

Thirteen years later, Mrs Goodman finds herself in a similar position to her husband. She will leave office this year after serving three terms as mayor (plus an extra year when the city juggled its electoral calendar). But there is not another Goodman waiting in the wings. When a new mayor is elected in November it will mark the end of a quarter-century of Goodman rule in Las Vegas. The couple’s time in office, and their lives, are worth considering. Now in their mid-80s, the Goodmans are a bridge between the old Las Vegas—a sparsely populated playground for mobsters—and the modern desert metropolis.