Background Reading on Sin City

[Davanden]

The Washington Post is running a series of articles on "Looking for America."  The third article is about our conference venue:

Awaiting a political awakening

The paradox: “It is by its very sustenance a city teeming with losers, yet the tallest residential structure in town has Trump’s name on it. People flock here in hopes of something gained, of some miraculous transfer of wealth, of beating or evening the odds rigged against them, of leaving inhibitions behind, in fear and loathing, in remembrance of things lost.”

--Dav

[jklaverstijn]

It will certainly be interesting to come from Europe just when the electoral (is that a word) heat is on.

Another insightful source of background info on Las vegas is the BBC documentary by Louis Theroux. "These shiny hotels were not built with the money of the winners".

- Jan.