Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley issued a heartfelt plea to Canadian visitors this week, acknowledging the city’s tourism-dependent economy is suffering from a dramatic decline in international visitors, particularly from Canada, which represents the city’s largest international market.
“As the mayor of Las Vegas, I’m telling everybody in Canada, please come. We love you, we need you, and we miss you,” Berkley said during a press conference this week, where she addressed the multiple challenges facing the entertainment capital’s tourism industry.
The mayor’s latest comments echo concerns she first raised in an August press conference, where she painted a stark picture of the tourism decline.
“International travel is way down. People are not coming to the United States,” Berkley said last month. “’
Great yet ?
Clark county was a really narrow swing for Harris. She only won by about 2%.
How many more people would have needed to vote blue before the actual blue voters in NV are worthy of our sympathy in this trying time?
Enough votes to have prevented the Trump presidency.
Some of us would probably be in Vegas right about now.
But as it stands, the way Americans like to vote means that we are always one election cycle away from fascism.
The Republican party will certainly not purge MAGA, nor the proto-MAGA attitudes that created it in the first place.
You now have a political party that has “The South Shall Rise Again” vibes.
Now they’re like herpes.