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Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Whatever By Steve Sebelius If you ask us, the mock funeral should be held for the career and administration of current Gov. Jim Gibbons, not former Lt. Gov. Lonnie Hammargren. After all, Hammargren seems to have a political future, while 29-percent-approval-rating Gibbons is treading water.
But Gibbons caught a little bit of driftwood on Tuesday, as Secretary of State [...]
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 The two minds of Phil Ruffin By Ian Mylchreest Deal or no deal? Is he or isn't he selling the New Frontier? Owner Phil Ruffin really seems to be in two minds about the $1.5 billion deal and it seems to depend on who is doing the asking. Ruffin told one story to the Review-Journal and another to Reuters – on the same day.
He told the RJ: "There is no [...]
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Amen, brother! By Steve Sebelius We at Various Things & Stuff watch a lot of TV, but because we're super busy, we often make use of the Cox Communications digital video recorder. If you don't have one, you should check it out. From what we hear, it's even better than TiVo.
Anyway, we only last night got around to watching [...]
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Home lending woes continue but could there be a ray of hope? By Ian Mylchreest The rapid collapse of subprime lending is giving people all kinds of worries about the long-term impact on the economy and consumer spending but all is not lost. A San Francisco-based hedge fund placed a $200 million bet on San Diego-based Home Lenders Holding Co. Tuesday but one analyst tells the Los Angeles Times the company [...]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 A few things By Steve Sebelius We were tied up with other stuff last week, and didn't have much time to blog. But there were a few things that we just couldn't let go without comment. Here we go!
» Quotable: "What we are encountering in Clark County with these holdouts that are showing complete resistance to the law is open [...]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Mesquite hospital to change owners By Ian Mylchreest That will be the main local impact of the news that Community Health is buying out Mesa View Regional Hospital's parent, Triad Hospitals. The deal is worth $5.1 billion, reports Reuters. That tops a $4.7 billion bid from two private equity firms, CCMP Capital Advisers and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.
The deal will create the largest [...]
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Monday, March 19, 2007 People v. Krolicki: The indictment By Steve Sebelius Although we've dished out approximately 75 maritime tons of abuse to Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki, it seems that we at Various Things & Stuff were actually going light on the guy. (By the way, we didn't blog much last week because we were deep in the vault at Marvel Studios in Beverly Hills, Calif., learning [...]
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Monday, March 19, 2007 Quick Wynn update By David McKee Following the "Wynn Responds" dispatch (3/9/07), I have been contacted by quite a few people identifying themselves as Wynn Las Vegas employees and saying, in no uncertain terms that Wynn's official position is … uh … let's say "factually challenged." They take particular issue with the contention that surveillance video is available for employee viewing [...]
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Monday, March 19, 2007 Two clubs, two verdicts; Wynn perfects Skeletor impersonation By David McKee Las Vegas nightlife got a double dose of new venues last week and at least one of them can be counted a success. Lucky Strike Lanes opened a branch at The Rio, even if some kinks in the system remain to be worked out. But when you've got automated scoring, glow-in-the-dark bowling shoes and a [...]
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Monday, March 19, 2007 A triumph of optimism over reality By David McKee It's an occupational hazard in business reporting to see only the promise of success but Las Vegas' #1 newspaper went overboard with the DJs spinning another golden oldie. In this case, it's the dubious assertion that the "second Strip" on Harmon Avenue is "progressing swiftly and surely."
Pardon my apparent cynicism, but this platter has been [...]
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