LETTER: Back in time

Colleen Keating Las Vegas August 29, 2026 - 9:02 pm I read recently that the millennium time capsule associated with the former Texas Station has been recovered. I have a question for the people who are responsible for deciding what happens to it next: What is the plan? This isn’t just an old box of casino memorabilia. In 1999, Texas Station invited Las Vegans to leave messages for people living 1,000 years in the future. The capsule was intended to preserve photographs, videos, artifacts and personal messages from our community and was originally supposed to remain sealed until the year 3000. Think about that for a minute. People in Las Vegas in 1999 were deliberately trying to communicate with people who wouldn’t exist for another thousand years. They were leaving behind a snapshot of wh