Slump means identity crisis for Las Vegas (Daily Sparks Tribune)

LAS VEGAS — This is not just a place people are born and live. Las Vegas is an enterprise. It is a deal people enter, a set of givens agreed upon: More is better. Biggest is best.

Economic slump means identity crisis for Las Vegas (Baltimore Sun)

This is not just a place people are born and live. Las Vegas is an enterprise.

Tix Corporation Achieves Another Milestone With 250,000 Discount Dinner Reservations Sold in Las Vegas in 2008 (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)

STUDIO CITY, Calif., Jan. 5, 2009 -- Tix Corporation , a leading integrated entertainment company providing discount and premium ticketing services, event and branded merchandising, and production/promotion of live concert and theatrical events, today announced that during 2008, the Company sold more than 250,000 discount dinner reservations to Las Vegas area restaurants.

In Las Vegas, the glitter fades (Baltimore Sun)

This is not just a place people are born and live. Las Vegas is an enterprise. More is better. Biggest is best.

Las Vegas dealt losing hand by economic downturn (The Monterey County Herald)

LAS VEGAS — This is not just a place people are born and live. Las Vegas is an enterprise. It is a deal people enter, a set of givens agreed upon: More is better. Biggest is best. To live in Las Vegas is to stake your future on this enterprise — for better or worse.

Slump means identity crisis for Las Vegas (MSNBC)

For the first time in decades, Las Vegas' population has stopped growing. Casino projects are on hold. Planes full of free-spending tourists are landing with less frequency.