Tulsan finds luck away from the poker table - Tulsa World
Steve Sanders would love to have made it to the World Series of Pokers November Nine, but luck doesnt always present itself as a winning hand. The man who spends part of his year living in his own paradise on the Pacific Northwest coastline of …

Food, farmers connect at Focus on Farming conference - Everett Herald
… agriculture conference on Thursday at Tulalip Resort Casino. More than 500 people, including farmers, ranchers, scientists and others involved in agriculture, turned out for the conference at the swanky hotel and casino west … all-star list of …

Coming up in your area - Recorder Community Newspapers
The Chester Lioness Club will host their monthly dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Lamplighter Restaurant, 190 W. Main St. The speakers will be representatives of the Montgomery Academy. Call Holly Simmenroth at (908) 879-5932. Dish gardens will be …

Cruisin, schmoozin on Mexican Riviera - Pasadena Star-News
… and another 10 to imbibe, five showrooms and lounges to dance or take in a show, four shops to spend what you didnt in the ports, and a special place to get married, get online, get in … but apparently necessary to make L.A. at 7 a.m. after a …

Resolved Question: What are your thoughts U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings at Home Depot?
It sounds like a George Lopez joke. “Times are so bad that I saw an Anglo day laborer standing outside Home Depot the other day.” Except it’s true. In the latest sign of the Las Vegas Valley’s economic free fall, U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings outside home improvement stores and plant nurseries across the Las Vegas Valley, jostling with illegal immigrants for a shot at a few hours of work. Experts say the slow-starting but seemingly inexorable trend is occurring nationwide. “It’s the equivalent of selling apples in the Great Depression,” said Harley Shaiken, chairman of the Center for Latin American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. But it is not only a sign of the times, they add. If the numbers of citizens among the day laborers in cities across the country continue to grow, it’s likely to increase the ire of followers of TV host Lou Dobbs and others who will see illegal immigrants as stealing food off the tables of the nation’s native-born or naturalized poor. Or, it may flip certain canards upside down in the immigration debate, easing tensions in some communities. In the Las Vegas Valley, where the most recent unemployment rate was 13.9 percent, one face of this phenomenon is Ken Buchanan. The 50-year-old describes himself as a “food and beverage” guy, most recently working for four years at Renata’s Sunset Lanes casino and, before that, 30 years in a string of restaurants, hotels and casinos here and in his birthplace, Chicago. But in 2006 Renata’s closed for remodeling. When the casino reopened as Wildfire, the management did not rehire Buchanan, he said. In the months that followed, Buchanan discovered the difficulty of seeking work in his fifth decade, eventually winding up at Green Valley Car Wash, where he stayed for about two years, he said. The banks foreclosed on the house he was renting. In the attempt to grab his things two steps ahead of the constable, he wound up missing work. He lost his job. He became homeless. A Hispanic man Buchanan met in Renata’s sports book told him he had picked up work standing outside the Home Depot on Pecos Road at Patrick Lane. One July day, Buchanan gave it a try. At first, he got nothing but sunburn. But then he started to get work. Now he’s at the Home Depot six days most weeks. Pablo Alvarado, executive director of the Los Angeles-based National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said he has been seeing the same thing elsewhere. “It’s happening, though still not in massive numbers,” Alvarado said. In the past six months or so, he has heard of “americanos” on the street corners and parking lots of Silver Spring, Md., Long Island, N.Y., and Southern California locations. “It’s just beginning,” he said. “But I think it’s only going to increase.” http://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/nov/02/new-faces-day-labor/

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