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FOLLOW US Reach out 140 characters at a time TWITTER MONDAY MENTIONS US: @VEGASINC @RPerezFeria @JakobMcCarthy @stevewrites @spencerholladay @rachellaya @VegasInc_TheRV @erindostal @DelenGoldberg @aprilcore @BrianBuckWargo @AbbyTegnelia YOU: @CarrieGiverson @alison @CM_Porter @rabbleboy @MichaelLAllen @Ronopfer LIKE US C'mon, you know you wanna FACEBOOK WALL OF FAME Trudy Beaulieu commenting on "Answer This!—Is Las Vegas' Sexy Image Hurting Business Development?": "It couldn't hurt to tell the entire world what other wonderful things are within an hour of the airport in Las Vegas." TUNE IN VEGAS INC TV MUST-SEE TV Join Dana Gentry and Jeff Gillan at 6:30 p.m. this and every Sunday on KSNV, Channel 3 for VEGAS INC, the last word on business. .com VEGASINC.com On "Always Darkest Before" by Tony Illia: Decriminalize pot and prostitution and our visitor numbers will double in ten years. Las Vegas was once the vanguard of freedom and escapism for adults years ago, but now has been stifled by nanny-state moralists and the self-righteous hypocrites who treat everyone as brainless children. Adults should be allowed the right to informed mutual consent in all matters, that's something that would revive Las Vegas as a truly unique vacation getaway of the world. —donfarang It's always darkest before things go completely black. —jazzy13 Nevada always recovers because LONELY NUMBER | 29 AUGUST 2011 | According to Inc. magazine, just 33 of the country's 5,000 fastest-growing companies are based in Nevada. Neighboring Utah has 84 companies on the list. Ouch. Get your fix of tourism, gaming and real estate news at VEGASINC.com. Business happens here 24/7, and we're right there with it. Nevada sells something that people love to visit but would never want back home: Freedom. Would diversification be nice? Sure. Multiple streams of income are always nice. But the best businesses have found something they do well, and they have perfected it and reinvented it and perfected it again. That has also been our history, muddied only by the influx of a few hundred thousand haters masquerading as residents during the past 15 years. Diversification has become a silver bullet theory for Las Vegas, when all we really need to do is focus on what we do best: Providing a libertarian escape for people from Las Vegas will have to work overtime to reinvent itself. Our government, unfortunately, will be shaky for a long time, regardless of who is president. Wall Street will forever be up and down. And with a government people will be cautious about, and Wall Street losing their money, they'll think twice about spending a lot of money on vacations. Our country has changed in the last year and will continue to change. I don't believe Las Vegas will climb swiftly out of this particular mess for many years to come. —Det__Munch An excellent article. It cannot be doom and gloom forever here in Las Vegas, but it will be for a while. What's really interesting is that we're in worse shape than Northern Nevada. All of that construction boom has finally caught up with us. But Las Vegas is a survivor and will diversify to become more of a global destination. —vince5585 On Richard N. Velotta's column, "Oh, Dotty's!": Station Casinos doesn't want any competition for the locals market. Did you notice last week's story about Station's increased profits? They have tightened the machines to the 5 elsewhere, even if just for a brief moment of their lives. —James_P_Reza PEANUT GALLERY YOU SAY… point my wife and I won't go there anymore. I wonder how much money they're spending on attorney fees and gaming board payoffs. I hope Dotty's and the Roadhouse win, but they can't outspend the Fertittas. —retiredgenius Sad that this business plan was accepted and practiced to a time when the big boys want to stop it. I've watched as the competition ate its competition to a point where we now have only a few large companies owning all major hotel and casino properties. Is this fair? I'm in Dotty's corner on this, and I hope the gaming control board is as well. This has to stop. —dhenry I'm all for Dotty's, but the ole' sayin' in Vegas is: He who greases the pockets first gets his way, and then slams the door shut for others. Big currupt corporate googa-monsters need to just let the rest of us alone. —SinCityChauffeur Maybe the gaming board should take offense that the Resort Association is now questioning their decisions of the last 15 years. How could they be correct for 15 years, but once someone else does it, they don't like those decisions others have to change them? If they change the rules of the game in the middle of the game, it's going to look like someone has been bought. Is that really what the gaming commission wants? —vegaslee W G GE E V V @ e w NNS I I a C C o A S c n .t t o r e A o h e m , o r f r a n F r o m a i l e d i m y o vb @e l o c aa i o o g t e u k a ! C, o n i o t a s n n T m c t u e t s a t w i t c . c o r