Game Preview: San Antonio Spurs @ Atlanta Hawks
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After playing nine of their last ten games at home, the Spurs are headed out on their 19th annual Rodeo Road Trip. (It doesn’t matter that the Rodeo is only being held in a limited capacity at the Freeman Coliseum, not the AT&T Center, and the parking lots are not needed for fans. Tradition must go on.) Although the RRT hasn’t been kind to the Spurs in recent years, they have performed well on the road this season, and a friendly schedule sets the Silver and Black up to build on their current record, beginning in Atlanta.
now Los Angeles is a blue town, a liberal town, and one that rejoices in its diversity.
But it could’ve been a close call. Before the Civil War, half of L.A.’s Anglo residents were Southerners. In the 1860 presidential election here, Abraham Lincoln came in third. On the first Fourth of July of the war, someone hoisted the Confederate flag over the town’s central plaza. Three U.S. Army officers here resigned, left California and became Confederate generals; soon, members of a secret militia too had “gone to Dixie.” Had secession been put to a vote, Southern California would probably have joined the slave-holding Confederacy.
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(North Platte, Nebraska, January 29, 2021) – It has been a year since the Advisory Committee of the
North Platte / Lincoln County Visitors Bureau provided funding to help promote area events and
attractions. The committee considered grant applications in January of 2020, but when the April
deadline came around, the Covid-19 pandemic was in full swing and the committee voted to waive
further consideration until the full effect of the pandemic on lodging tax receipts could be calculated.
For the calendar year of 2020, lodging tax receipts are down around 30%, and it is possible the spring
could still be very bleak months. However, the Advisory Committee decided that there is light at the end of the tunnel with travelers once again expressing confidence in traveling. Nine organizations submitted