And now the bustling streets and malls fall strangely quiet. In many a home, the living room stands ankle-deep in an effluvia of ribbons and paper and bows, while in the background someone has left the TV running — Alastair Sim throws open his window on a bright and shining world for the 59th time and asks the lad in the street what day this is.
Like the nuclear bombs exploded in the Nevada desert during the Cold War, a “Newt bomb” could be exploding all across Mitt Romney’s Nevada voting base, leading to a potential ground-shaking upset in Nevada.
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Jennifer Jeong interviewed students at Coronado High School.
COVER STORY: We may have been hoping for economic ups in 2011, but we got many downers. Foreclosures stayed high, hotels closed and home prices sank. But taxable sales rose all year, offering hope as the calendar flips.
Everywhere Las Vegans looked in 2011, they saw bankruptcies galore, shuttered hotels, plummeting home prices and shopping-center defaults. But 2011 wasn’t all bad, as Las Vegas saw its first green shoots since the recession’s 2007 beginning.
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A famed chef opens his 6th restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip
EDITORIAL: Accountability thy name isn’t Biden
Nevada’s gas prices could soon skyrocket. Blame it on a new California law
Haze from California wildfire clouds Las Vegas Valley
‘Boom!’: ‘Tank’ Davis retains belt in vicious fashion at MGM Grand — PHOTOS