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Years Before Sammy Davis, Josephine Baker Was Desegregating Vegas Casinos

Las Vegas Weekly | February 19, 2009

It seems almost like a fairy tale in which a lone black woman—before the civil rights movement, before the integrated Rat Pack appeared on the Strip, even before the Voting Rights Act—stood against the powers that were in Vegas in 1952 and won.

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The Killer Las Vegas iPhone Appnew

Vegas Mate kicks other Vegas travel guides' butts.

Las Vegas Weekly | Richard Abowitz | 09-04-2009 | Tech

Tags: iPhone apps, travel, Las Vegas

Comparing Jay Bybee's Torture Memos & 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'new

For Bybee as much as for Thompson, reality must be mitigated, banished or defeated. Thompson uses drugs, and Bybee plays with the law until it goes blind.

Las Vegas Weekly | Richard Abowitz | 05-14-2009 | Commentary

Tags: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jay Bybee, torture, Las Vegas, law, Hunter S. Thompson, language

Perhaps It's Time for the Gov't to Sell What It Doesn't Really Neednew

Real people who have bills and not enough money might put their useless stuff up for sale on eBay. Of course, for government the math does not work that way. In government you either raise taxes or cut programs. But imagine if that were not so.

Las Vegas Weekly | Richard Abowitz | 02-12-2009 | Economy

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