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Archive for June, 2006
Friday, June 16, 2006 Southwest and American compromise on Love By Ian Mylchreest Remember all those cocktail napkins on Southwest that used to urge the repeal of the Wright Amendment. Well, apparently Southwest and American, which benefits from the restrictions on Love Field, have agreed compromise in their fight over the airport, reports the Associated Press.
The deal keeps the restrictions on Love Field, so only short haul flights [...]
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Friday, June 16, 2006 Here’s a lesson for the locals By Ian Mylchreest The case against Milberg Weiss, the law firm that specialized in suing companies on behalf of disgruntled shareholders, has hit some snags, reports the Los Angeles Times. And it’s run aground on the honesty and integrity of federal judges.
The first five judges who drew the case have recused themselves because they had either heard earlier [...]
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Friday, June 16, 2006 Maxim un-fondly remembered; Montreux panned By David McKee While we’re not entirely confident that this Maxim-branded casino, slated for land just north of Circus Circus, is actually going to, well, you know, happen, it has sparked a fair amount of reminiscing about the old Maxim, which closed in 1999, briefly reopened in 2000, then expired for good. Columbia Sussex, which recently acquired Aztar [...]
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Friday, June 16, 2006 Pittsburgh to casinos: You can do better By David McKee Here at S/G we’re still catching up with some interesting events that unfolded while our Luddite self was still learning the rudiments of HTML code (not that I’m any great shakes now, as my editor, Ian Mylchreest, can tell you). Here’s one from earlier this month. Casino expansion into Pennsylvania has gone under-reported around town [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Program note By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff are headed to the Deep South — Little Rock, Ark., to be specific. We’re attending the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) where our beloved CityLife is applying for membership. If something totally blog-worthy happens, we’ll try to use our BlackBerry to post. But if not, [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Something missing? By Steve Sebelius A few years ago, we at Various Things & Stuff took a trip to Washington, D.C. for a journalism convention. While there, we made a point to visit with each member of the Nevada delegation (save for U.S. Sen. John Ensign, who had an unexpected engagement back in Nevada). But before Ensign left, we attended [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Quick (money, union, corruption) hits! By Steve Sebelius • Wow, how can we at Various Things & Stuff get a job at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority? They pay the mad coin, yo!
According to today’s Review-Journal, President Rossi Ralenkotter stands to pull down $317,714 next year. That’s the combination of a 5 percent raise, which brings his base salary to [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 The fugitive: Frances Deane By Steve Sebelius They’ve got good doctors at the Clark County Detention Center.
That’s our response to the news that Clark County Recorder Frances Deane is using a recent surgery to dodge showing up to be properly arrested for allegedly selling documents maintained by her office to private businessmen. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Karen Bennett-Haron generously [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 Interest rates will rise on inflation By Ian Mylchreest Inflation for both wholesale goods and the consumer price index is rising more than analysts and government officials hoped, reports the Associated Press. Gas prices pushed the Consumer Price Index up 0.4 percent in May or nearly 5 percent on an annual basis.
Even the core inflation rate (without food and gas) rose 0.3 percent, which [...]
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 It’s not illegal but By Ian Mylchreest Dallas Mavericks’ owner and Internet and TV mogul Mark Cuban is building a new Web site to report on stock fraud and corporate wrongdoing, reports the San Jose Mercury News. The site, he promises, will be much more interesting and lively than traditional reporting and will span the globe to deal with transnational corporations that [...]
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