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LOVED this entry for the first time I want to go to Las Vegas. Barbara
Like I said in my previous entry, I am looking forward to visiting Las Vegas now. I am concerned, though, about the increased population of homeless in LV... I don't suppose you know anything about what the city is doing to improve that situation? I remember reading the journal recently of a man named River, http://journals.aol.com/riversharki/JESUSLOVESYOU/and how he was living homeless on the streets of LV. He was able to make his journal entries via the library computer/internet access. He said there were over 15,000 homeless people in that city of entertainment. I suppose it is the mild weather that attracts these homeless. I wonder if they lived in LV, then became homeless, or if they became homeless first, then moved to LV because they'd heard it was easier to sleep on the streets at night? I don't know. That's a lot of people needing shelter and food. Amidst a population who has money to spend. How can one enjoy one's vacation when surrounded by such poverty and imperilment? I haven't done a search, but I am going to add it to my list of things to search, to answer the question "Why?" I'd still like to go to LV, but I am concerned about what I will see, and what I will do when I see it. Bea
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LOVED this entry for the first time I want to go to Las Vegas.
Barbara
Like I said in my previous entry, I am looking forward to visiting Las Vegas now. I am concerned, though, about the increased population of homeless in LV... I don't suppose you know anything about what the city is doing to improve that situation? I remember reading the journal recently of a man named River,
http://journals.aol.com/riversharki/JESUSLOVESYOU/
and how he was living homeless on the streets of LV. He was able to make his journal entries via the library computer/internet access. He said there were over 15,000 homeless people in that city of entertainment. I suppose it is the mild weather that attracts these homeless. I wonder if they lived in LV, then became homeless, or if they became homeless first, then moved to LV because they'd heard it was easier to sleep on the streets at night? I don't know. That's a lot of people needing shelter and food. Amidst a population who has money to spend. How can one enjoy one's vacation when surrounded by such poverty and imperilment? I haven't done a search, but I am going to add it to my list of things to search, to answer the question "Why?" I'd still like to go to LV, but I am concerned about what I will see, and what I will do when I see it. Bea
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