The bubble bursts in Las Vegas. People think real estate is one huge market. It isn't. It's highly localized and subject wildly to local pressures. Vegas is going cold for many reasons. Not least of all is the sheer volume of space they have available. People with kids are far more likely to pull up stakes (if you'll pardon the pun) and move to the 'burbs so the kids can have space to play. I'm sure there's much more to it than that but I don't know enough about the market there to speculate.
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project
Feds eye Stevens' home remodeling project . Thank God they're going after this guy. He's been so brazen with his porkbarreling and the whiff of corruption around him has been ripe enough to smell from here. I'd rather have a 100% democrat run Congress if they were ethical. Term limits. One term for Senate, two for the House, one for the President. Some fear that would increase the power of lobbyists. Simple, ban any former members from being lobbyists and limit lobbyists to terms as well. (I'm not sure how that would work. Just a thought.) The other answer is transparency. No earmarks without a floor vote. No spending of any kind without a floor vote. All spending committees (intelligence aside) open to the public and recorded and available on the web.
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