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Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30, 2006 Kerkorian heads for the exit By Ian Mylchreest MGM Mirage majority owner Kirk Kerkorian has apparently abandoned all hope of remaking General Motors. He sold one fourth of his shares last week and then sold another fourth in an off-market transaction and now the Wall Street Journal reports that he has sold the rest of this stock in the auto maker to Bank [...]
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 Is Titus dead? By Steve Sebelius Is state Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus dead? My colleague Jon Ralston seems to think so, arguing in his column today that, short of a "miraculous makeover," Titus has no future in Nevada politics.
Apparently, however, Titus hasn't yet received the memo. She's quoted in the Las Vegas Sun today arguing for redistributing room tax [...]
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 This just in! By Steve Sebelius Susan McCue, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid's chief of staff, is leaving the senator's office to head the ONE Campaign as president and chief executive officer. The ONE Campaign is a global effort to fight AIDS and extreme poverty.
Reid, in a statement, said McCue will be missed, and we think he's being totally honest about [...]
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 First post … and it's about Mark and Mercedes By Mike Prevatt I can't believe I'm going to kickstart this new CityLife A&E blog with something initiated by Mark & Mercedes, the morning jabbers on KMXB-FM 94.1, but I believe I'll redeem myself pretty quickly, so here goes.
I set my alarm so I will absolutely wake up and get out of bed. So, I position the alarm [...]
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 Things are slowing down By Ian Mylchreest It's not a disaster but there were plenty of signs Tuesday that the economy was cooling and would stay in the slow lane next year, reports the Associated Press. Consumer confidence also dropped last month.
The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell to 102.9 in November down from 105.1 in October. The number was also well below the [...]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 The other shoe drops at the Rio … maybe By Ian Mylchreest A second offer could be in the works for Harrah's as Penn National and investment firm, D.E. Shaw, kick the tires and crunch the numbers on the biggest gaming company, reports the New York Times. This time, it could be the racino that ate Harrah's because the bid, if it is made, will look much more like [...]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Proposition 209 could be moving east By Ian Mylchreest Or at least its author Ward Connerly, the California activist who led the fight to take race out of public education admissions and contracting, is promising to take his campaign elsewhere and Nevada is one of the state's he is thinking about taking it to, reports the Los Angeles Times. Connerly, who is black, is [...]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 This just in! By Steve Sebelius Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons hasn't just been wandering around in a post-election haze! He's been picking a transition team, and one of the members will surprise you. In addition to resurrecting Lt. Gov. Lorraine Hunt from the Where Are They Now? file, Gibbons also tapped former Gov. Robert List (currently a shill for the pro-Yucca Mountain [...]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Closing the park By Steve Sebelius Las Vegas City Manager Doug Selby's decision to close Huntridge Circle Park on Maryland Parkway will certainly be viewed by cynics as a response not to the Friday stabbing of a homeless man by another, but to a U.S. District Court's order that the city's Please-Don't-Feed-The-Homeless ordinance was struck down.
Which is to say, that's [...]
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Monday, November 27, 2006 Has Borat ourtsmarted himself? By Ian Mylchreest Lots of people have been critical of Sacha Baron Cohen's apparently underhand techniques to get people to participate in his film but he could have shot himself in the foot with Borat, reports the Los Angeles Times. Fox declined to distribute his next film, which features the campy-to-the-max Austrian character Bruno. The big question is [...]
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