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 President Obama s tour of five battleground states in the coming election took him Thursday to Las Vegas, Nevada. No state has a higher stanley cup  unemployment rate -- 12.6 percent -- and no city a higher foreclosure rate. CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason now on what can happen when a state places all its bets on a single industry.The sign says  Fabulous Las Vegas.  But it s not so fabulous these days. Sin City s economy was built on gaming and tourism. Yet in the recession, that hand was a bust.    You wanna talk about a company town  This is a company state,  said Jim Murren, CEO of MGM Resorts.Murren runs a dozen resort casinos in Vegas. With 50,000 workers, MGM is the largest employer in Nevada and its biggest source of tax revenue.  We alone -- one company --  repre stanley us sent about 12 percent of the entire state budget,  he said.         While tourism and gaming revenue are rising again, the state s largest casinos still lost $4 billion last year. The stanley cup re are plenty of casualties along the strip. That s the half-built skeleton of the Echelon, a planned five-hotel mega resort. But construction stopped when the recession hit and has never resumed.Up the strip, the bankrupt Fontainebleau is also unfinished. The historic Sahara closed its doors last May. Even MGM s massive City Center, the largest privately-funded construction project in U.S. history, nearly didn t make it.  We need to diversify our economy,  said Murren.  We need to bring more businesses here.              But for entrepr Ftkq Aphex Twin SAW2 Countdown: Track 4 ( Hankie )
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 Believe it or not, lots of Republicans are downright chirpy these days. Yes, they lost the election. Big time. And they ve lost their top committee assignments. And their big office suites. They stanley flasche  re downsizing, to be sure, and that s not an easy or pleasant thing to do. On top of that, they ve got a Republican president with an all-time-low approval rating of 30 percent.  And that s not g stanley cup usa ood for any of us,  says Tom Cole of Oklahoma, the newly elected chairman of the House GOP campaign committee. So why the smiles  Because the now minority congressional Republicans are feeling liberated. The burden of trying to run a fractious Congress is gone. Now they get to become professional critics. No longer do they have to sweat to deliver a  majority of the majority  to the White House for every big vote-including Iraq. They can be the opposition voice, the backbenchers, the unruly minority. After all, they earned it. But there s a peril in their new circumstance. The temptation is to behave badly, to prove the Democrats can t get anything done and don t deserve their new majority status. They can complain, as they did this past week, that they re being unfairly shut out of the legislative process. They can become obstructionist if they want; there s plenty of precedent for that. But to simply oppose would be a huge mistake: The public asked for reform and change. To get in stanley cup  the way of that would only be self-destructive.           A losing hand. Yet last week, the Republicans spent mu Arga Obama Orders Review of Security Measures
 You ;ve still got the weekend to finish up this month   book club pick! To celebrate the impending release of the latest novel in James S.A.  stanley taza Corey   Expanse series, we ;re reading the first book in the series, Leviathan Wakes. We ;ll meet on 6/9 to discuss it.      Not only did we love this novel    when it came out a few years ago, but stanley cup  now Syfy Channel has just ordered up a series based on it. Leviathan Wakes is as close as you ;ll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form  What is this io9 Book Club all about  We meet once a month to discuss a book we ;ve all read together, and then we have an online chat wi stanley tazas th the author 鈥?see our past meetings here.                                                        BooksJames s.a. corey