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[CJR] The Economy Today: Gambling on Tomorrow : CJR: On the local front, gamblers are less eager to risk their earnings, according to dispatches from Nevada and Mississippi. And Michigan real-estate agents are taking their pitches to the stage in a gamble to sell more properties.

[Kansas City Star: Nation] Report: Revenue and jobs decline at US casinos - Kansas City Star: Illinois (20.9 percent) and Colorado (12.3 percent) experienced the largest revenue declines, due in part to smoking bans that took effect last year. Pennsylvania, meanwhile, saw its revenue soar by more than 48 percent last year, due to the continued growth of its racetrack slot parlors.

[Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Headlines] Selling Our Services to the World (With an Ode to Chicago ...: Dallas is now the hub of the nation’s sixth largest metropolitan area, which joins the fifth largest metropolitan area in Houston and the ninth largest in the San Antonio–Austin region to form the economic backbone of a thriving state powered by the gumption of 24 million hard-working, hardscrabble souls.

[CharlotteObserver.com Most Recent Headlines] Recession hits kids who need jobs for diploma: Alabama's occupational diploma requires 270 hours of paid employment and Mississippi, 580 hours. But Mississippi students also have the option of taking a two-year .

[mjsbigblog] Idol Headlines for 03/24/09: The economy is expected to dominate President Barack Obama’s news conference at 8 p.m. But perhaps the power of his prime time presence can be judged by his ability to change the TV line-up - the popular “American Idol” has been moved to Wednesday.

[carapace - Not your father's america] Monday March 30, 2009 - The Mississippi River will always have its ...: In Europe, the rotating president of the European Union, outgoing Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, characterized America’s plan to combat the widening global recession as the “road to hell.” At same time, British Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan made headlines the world over with his stinging rebuke of the inflationary and debt-focused policies of the current UK government.

[Daily Headlines] Conservatives invoke Obama in Voting Rights Act challenge: Conservative legal foundations and the Republican governor of Georgia, challenging key parts of the Voting Rights Act, filed briefs in the Supreme Court this month pointing to racial progress and a high black turnout in the fall election. They said Obama's victory heralded the emergence of a colorblind society in which special legal safeguards for minorities are no longer required.

[Locust blog] Diversity is Strength! It’s Also”¦“Jim Snow” Disenfranchisement Of ...: In a classic case of black supremacist projection, he then accused Fox News reporter Rick Leventhal with “intimidating” voters by his presence, insisting that Leventhal had no authorization to be there, and saying, “I don’t know what you’re talking about”, when Leventhal mentioned “Night Stick”.

[News/latest from www.globegazette.com] GlobeGazette.com :: Report: Revenue, jobs decline at casinos: But the study did not include job numbers for Nevada or Missouri after June, because both states track job data using a fiscal year starting in July. Major casinos in Nevada shed thousands of jobs during the second half of last year as the economy got worse on the Las Vegas Strip and elsewhere.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: the biggest mistake bush made was when he came to office he didn't completely clean out EVERY clinton appointee! i said from the beginning that he made a terrible mistake keeping any democrat and that they would be after him until they destroyed him –

[POLITICO Top Stories] GOP kingmaker leans toward Mitt Romney - Kenneth P. Vogel ...: In a July 2007 Foreign Affairs article, Romney praised U2 singer Bono and other activists for their efforts to raise awareness of poverty in Africa and elsewhere. Romney said U.S. efforts to bolster the standing of moderate Muslims .

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Bits Bucket For May 11, 2009: He bought a block of occupied apartments from the sponsor in a West Village co-op (for something like $15,000 total). They had elderly rent controlled tenants in place, some paying less than $200/month which was less than the monthly building fees.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: The only way the trillions of dollars spent will completely go to waste is if the stimulus program fails. So instead of complaining about how these cuts (17 billion dollars is still a LOT of money) are pointless, try looking at the positive.

[Economist's View] Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Partying Like It's 1929: Gold strikes rescued the industrial economies of the Northeast and the Midwest with a monetary expansion, and the economies of Northeast and Great Lakes continued to follow the path of the second industrial revolution. Parts of the West never recovered, though, and the South, mired in post-bellum poverty, continued to continue in a poverty largely untouched by developments elsewhere.

[Anderson Cooper 360] Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Live Blog from the Anchor Desk ...: A town of just 6,000 people and an all white jury is in itself bias and not representative of the population””not even one African American, or other minority, was part of the jury””that is unbelievable. Very upsetting, if it was one of those kids that got injured or killed by the Latino immigrant, sure enough they would have found the minority guilty.

[Alternative-Doctor Blog] Swine flu outbreak. The truth is ugly. : Alternative-Doctor Blog: In July 2005, the Pentagon purchased $58 million worth of Tamiflu, and the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would order up to $1 billion worth of the drug a few months later. Donald Rumsfeld failed to to sell off his Gilead stocks for his entire term in office, holding on to somewhere between $8 million and $39 million worth of Gilead holdings.

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