WASHINGTON—Forget rehabbing Alcatraz, President Donald Trump, as you proposed on social media over the weekend. It’s not worth the years and treasure that would be needed to turn the popular tourist destination back into a maximum-security prison for the worst federal offenders.
Instead, think Nevada.
Nevada delivered six Electoral College votes for you in 2024.
California? Nada.
Officials in the NIMBY state would see your brainchild Alcatraz as an invitation for sabotage and litigation. Nevada would see opportunity.
Besides, even when the establishment is on board, it takes forever to get anything done in California.
When an earthquake caused a section of the Bay Bridge to collapse in 1989, and the eastern span was deemed unsafe, Northern California politicians dithered. It took more than a decade to begin a needed retrofit, and the job was not completed…
