[Milton Miteybad]

Atlantic City? Sorry guys... but Las Vegas is not going to play second fiddle to anybody in the gaming industry. You could spend the entire New Jersey state budget on fixing up Atlantic City and the Vegas tourist honchos would just pull the other financial hand they have tied behind their back and whomp you silly with it.

Even if you did spend every last dollar that could be found in New Jersey on Atlantic City, at the end of it all, and for all that expenditure and effort, you'd still be stuck with a dreary, fetid dump of a town, one whose heyday was more than 100 years ago.

[fatnotlazy]

Used to travel to Vegas 2 or 3 times a year when I was still working. One great thing is that even if you don't gamble, there are other things to do. And I could walk down Las Vegas Boulevard in the middle of the night and feel safe.

I think though that running the mob out of Vegas was ultimately a bad idea. Now that politicians rule, the city is developing problems inherent to most major cities. The mobsters might have killed each other, but they wouldn't tolerate the drive by shootings and other crimes against civilians going on today.