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Relocating to greener pastures - 2004-02-08
Over the past few years, Billy Drewitz's spiky-haired look has been a fixture in San Jose, where he has publicized hip-hop activities at such spots as the Agenda and the now-defunct Cactus Club and the Usual.
A common night at one of Drewitz's Tahoe shows lures from 600 to 1,000 college students and twentysomethings. Many of them from the Bay Area, Sacramento and even Los Angeles -- there to ski and snowboard during the day and party at night.
"In Tahoe, there is still a real live-music scene," he stated. "Kids out there think DJs are for the tourists in town and the casinos."
Read the full story at San Jose Mercury News

Politicians manipulating our system's mistakes - 2004-02-08
New Las Vegas residents, except those migrating from Chicago, the unofficial capital of sin, must be asking whether our local system of government is goint out of control.

The stories are growing -- the expert assemblyman who took pay for his job at City Hall while working at the Legislature in Carson City, the Las Vegas councilwoman who breached her oath of loyalty to the voters by joining the board of a popular casino company, and the one-time county commissioner recorded on FBI wiretaps begging a shadowy strip club operator for cash.
Read the full story at Las Vegas Sun