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Gaming revenue in Clark County, which includes downtown Las Vegas and the Strip, is down 8.5% for the year, to $8.3 billion. But the revenue for October, the last month for which figures are available, is off an ominous 24.3% vs. the same month in 2007. Visitor volume is down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Times Stop Rolling: Vegas Meets the Recession | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

Madigan, a graduate of Notre Dame and Loyola University Law School, got his start in politics as a ward leader from the working-class and politically powerful southwest side of Chicago. He headed to the state capital of Springfield in 1970 as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, or "Con...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Illinois Dynasty Versus Blagojevich | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

Certainly, though, the Apollo 8 crew had earned the right to celebrate. It was Christmastime 1968 - the end of a hard year. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered; in June, Bobby Kennedy followed; in August, the Democratic Convention in Chicago dissolved into bloody rioting; and in each month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Apollo 8, Man's First Trip to the Moon | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

Santa Claus could fly into Oahu this Christmas and no one would notice because President-elect Barack Obama is home for the holidays. Since Saturday, Obama has been lying low in a way only a man born and raised on Oahu could, working out, lounging on the beach and eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Tries to Escape in Hawaii | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

Vilsack's agricultural policies are not his only connections to the president-elect. Obama’s Chief Strategist David Axelrod also advised Vilsack during his Iowa gubernatorial campaign, and Vilsack’s wife, then-Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack, spoke during the 2004 Democratic National Convention on the...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Obama Selects IOP Fellow as Secretary of Agriculture | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

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