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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Gubernatorial staffers, take hope! There is life after the Gube, like lobbying for the Poker Players of America. (PPA,Gube) See, that revolving door sure is handy!
And who hasn't seen the latest attempt by the Guv to split his face in two:
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, who says
he wants an all-out effort ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
So Ralston calls the Gube's meandering claim about budget cuts, or whatever that 4.5% thingy was, made on Nevada Newsmakers:After gushing over the Beersian idea of population growth plus
inflation as “a great place to start” for budgeting, Gibbons challenged
host Sam Shad when he asked the governor about the point at ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Gibbonses were no-shows at the Lincoln Desecration Dinner held by Repugs in Pahrump, who have to settle for Gib-clone Dean Heller. Gube spokester assures us that the little family home meeting over the weekend was not the reason for the snub:
Heller and Nevada
Senate President Pro Tem Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Reading about Dean Heller's rationalization for voting to subsidize Big Oil raises an interesting question, with apologies to Shelley Berkley: does the district make the man, or the man make the district?
Heller went into blather mode trying to justify voting against a bill that would cut back on subsidies to ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
It's been almost nine months since the majority of Boyd Gaming's stagehands voted to unionize. Since then, they've been subjected to a managerial smackdown and their elected representative, IATSE, is virtually powerless to alleviate the situation -- or even to get a contract out of Boyd. IATSE has been similarly ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
There will soon be even fewer reasons (not that there are many left) to visit the Las Vegas Tropicana. Instead of having to navigate a defunct escalator to see Bodies ... The Exhibition or Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, you'll be able to cross the street and see them at Luxor.
True, ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
That preening Master of the Universe wannabe you see above is Columbia Sussex CEO William Yung III, subject of a lengthy (and deeply unflattering) exposé in the Louisville Courier-Journal. The article basically explains what Missouri Gaming Commission Director Gene McNary meant when he cryptically told the Kansas City Star's Rick ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
After two weeks of torpor, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons finally took substantive action on the growing hepatitis crisis. He tried to pink-slip several of the worst enablers of Dr. Dipak Desai, only to have at least two of the six give him the finger. (No, make that three.) One even accuses ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Per yesterday's item on the reprieve granted to The Reading Room at Mandalay Bay, a Los Angeles-based reader writes:
Just got back from Mandalay Bay ... it appeared to me that the whole Mandalay Place is not doing so well. The wine store is closed, there was another storefront closed right ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Today's Las Vegas Review-Journal has an excellent rundown on the current state of flux at both the Plaza and Cosmopolitan projects, including the sobering stat that the latter's cost has now ballooned to $3.9 billion -- a 95% cost overrun.
Seems that Deutsche Bank's foreclosure move is primarily aimed at buffaloing ...
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