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Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 3, 2007 More foreign tourists predicted By Ian Mylchreest Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez was in Orlando Friday to predict that more foreign tourists will finally come to the U.S. this year than came before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, reports the Associated Press. Those tourists are worth well over $100 billion a year in earnings and a good bit of it gets left in Las [...]
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Friday, March 2, 2007 Turmoil at Wynn By David McKee According to sources close to Wynn Las Vegas, all manner of offal is hitting the fan over there. Wynn spokespeople have yet to respond to a detailed set of allegations, which include:
Twenty boxmen and other floorpeople being sacked Friday morning and led off the property. Supposedly, no reason was given and the unluckly 20 were [...]
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Friday, March 2, 2007 How toxic is Stanley Ho? By David McKee Pretty darn toxic — at least in Singapore, where they don't hold any truck with the wink-wink, nudge-nudge farce that passes for "regulation" in Nevada these days. As you've read, Genting subsidiary Star Cruises sold a minority interest to Stanley Ho. Star is also a participant in Genting's planned Sentosa Island integrated resort, which will [...]
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Friday, March 2, 2007 Nevada Republicans sure to be overlooked By Steve Sebelius We just got word (thanks, for once, to the Review-Journal's e-Flash service) that the Nevada Republican Party has decided to hold its presidential caucus on Feb. 7. Now, assuming that date is not a mistake, we can glean two important things from the news:
1.) Nevada Republicans don't mind copying the Democrats, if they see [...]
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Friday, March 2, 2007 Friday Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius » We at Various Things & Stuff have never been big fans of taxpayer subsidies for profit-making corporations, although we do recognize that economic realities sometimes justify spending money to make money. But generally, things get totally ridiculous.
Such is the case with the city of Las Vegas and the Tennis Channel Open. Although city [...]
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Friday, March 2, 2007 Monorail: If you don't know about it, does it still suck? By Steve Sebelius It's a age-old practice: If you're faced with a continual skien of bad news, you don't fix the problem, you fix the bad news! And that's what the long-suffering folks at the Las Vegas Monorail are doing, according to a story in today's Review-Journal.
Instead of releasing disappointing and ever-falling ridership numbers every month, the [...]
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Thursday, March 1, 2007 One big, happy (Ho) family By David McKee Well, the deal has been done. The fix was in as Nevada Gaming Control Board members trotted out their signifying-monkeys impersonation, rubber-stamping MGM Mirage's indirect alliance with Stanley Ho. MGM's Alan Feldman has been known to bristle, perhaps rightly, at the assertion that his company is "in business with Stanley Ho," but if it isn't, [...]
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Thursday, March 1, 2007 Adelson makes fool of self By David McKee I don't know whether the dye in Sheldon Adelson's suspiciously dark hair (which seems to change hue from one press conference to another) is seeping into his brain or what, but sidekick William Weidner ought to tackle El Bombastico before he makes any further political pronouncements. You see, the Venetian owner thinks that human rights [...]
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Thursday, March 1, 2007 Thursday Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius » Let's start off with the Political Pop Quiz. Today's question: On what date is the Iowa presidential caucus scheduled? The answer is below. No peeking!
» Apparently, the Democratic candidates visiting Nevada have Republicans all upset that bright-red Nevada may turn blue in 2008. According to the Review-Journal, GOP types are looking at moving [...]
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Thursday, March 1, 2007 What if Jacko was one of us? By Mike Prevatt I can't get over the fact Michael Jackson — if only temporarily — is a local. Yes, Wacko Jacko has a home in the 702, apparently a big fan of Las Vegas and mulling over possible offers to set up shop in a casino showroom a la Celine, Barry and, if only for a few [...]
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