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the basics Pick 'Em Get smart Power tweets Power Lunch The Numbers Sin City Media Overheard talking points Done Deal the numbers Chatter Smith's world We hear .com YOUR AD HERE Buy high Sell low Mike Smith is an award-winning editorial cartoonist featured daily in the Las Vegas Sun. Smith's work also is distributed nationally by King Features Syndicate. See archives of his work at lasvegassun.com/smithsworld. 40 million VEGASINCmag Executive class Read this! The Pitch is back NOW SERVING LAS VEGAS Vegas then ? ? ? ? ? ! The innovator 95 The number of Target customers potentially affected by a data$ breach. People who shopped at U.S. Target stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 may have their credit and debit card information compromised. VEGASinc2021 Gate keeper American dream FortuneCookie Grilled Moonlighting The Survivor 49 cents The cost of first-class postage stamps, starting Jan. 26 29 steve marcus The number of years the National Finals Rodeo has been staged in Las Vegas. The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association now is considering leaving Las Vegas for Central Florida in 2015. $300,000 The amount of money a Las Vegas cab driver found inside his taxicab. The driver, Gerardo Gamboa, brought the money back to the taxi company office, where it was eventually returned to its owner, a professional poker player. $10,000 Gamboa's reward for returning the gambler's money. He also received $1,000 and dinner for two from Yellow Checker Star. 22,000 Reader comments We want to hear from you. Visit vegasinc.com to post your opinion. On Eli Segall's Dec. 2 vegasinc.com story about a local developer purchasing a valley mall ("Developer buys Boulevard mall from lenders for $54.5 million"): Best idea would be to change the business model. Turn that mall into a post-Zombie-Apocalyptic Amusement Park. Have a few actors walk around like zombies and frighten the visitors, while they have to figure out how to survive. Best Vegas tourist experience ever. — GoVegas The number of seats the proposed All Net Arena would have. Former UNLV and NBA player Jackie Robinson announced plans to break ground on the $1.3 billion arena with a retractable roof in 2014. Best of luck to the new owner, and I hope he does well. Maybe a movie theater would work if possible. — Anthonyjoevegas 9 percent On Eli Segall's Dec. 3 vegasinc.com story about a high-end gym being built in Henderson ("New health club to open near Green Valley Ranch in 2014"): Good luck. As the novelty of a new gym wears off, members there re-evaluate the low ratio of amenities per dollar over a club like Las Vegas Athletic Club which is 80 percent less per month than the cheapest Lifetime membership. — flipmode Nevada's unemployment rate in November, which was the state's lowest in five years. $14.8 million The amount Ryland Homes paid NV Energy for 40 acres of vacant land. 3.3 million The number of passengers that used McCarran International Airport in November. | 6 JANUARY 2014 20140106_VI19_F.indd 19 | They aren't competing with Gold's or the Henderson Multi-Gen, this is a completely different kind of athletic club going after a different consumer than those other two. I'm very glad to see GV getting an athletic club of this caliber, it's great for our com- munity. — TruthinHistory On Joe Schoenmann's Dec. 14 and Dec. 18 vegasinc. com and lasvegassun.com stories about bags being checked at Container Park ("Joe Downtown: Customers complaining about searches at Downtown Container Park" and "Joe Downtown: Random bag searches halted at Downtown Container Park"): So you can have a gun but not alcohol? I have a 5-year-old and I'd much rather people drink near the playground than carry a gun. I can deal with a loud, obnoxious drunk. Shots fired generally come with some sort of finality that nobody wants to experience. — Megan Conklin If they see someone either bring in alcohol from outside, tell them to dump the alcohol or leave. It's a much more effective method of ensuring that only Container Park alcohol is present at Container Park, setting aside the issue of how it is that kids are impacted by outside alcohol rather than alcohol served inside. — jonellt Advertising this move (to stop the practice of checking bags) has created a much more unsafe environment for those wishing to enjoy the park. This isn't Summerlin, it's not Southern Highlands, it's not even Green Valley, this is downtown all but abandoned to urban blight until some daring entrepreneurial spirits decided to throw heaps of cash at it. — ELJeffe 19 1/2/14 10:28:11 AM

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