Technically, there are three weeks until the real Election Day. But the race in Nevada realistically hits its big deadline this week.
Federal handouts to failing financial firms have spawned a single, cynical question from an outraged electorate: Where’s my bailout?
The ruling political class hates the referendum and initiative process — a provision that allows citizens to vote directly on changes to the law or state constitution, bypassing Legislatures often beholden to well-heeled special interests.
Potential buyers are struggling to secure mortgages at two major condominum-hotels as credit has tightened, even for the well-to-do.
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Wynn Resorts Ltd. told investors Monday it expects to see a decline in operations from its Strip casino during the third quarter. However, the downturn is expected to be offset by improved results at the company’s casino in Macau.
Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal, the Las Vegas gangster and black book member played by Robert DeNiro in the movie “Casino,” died Monday in Florida at age 79.
John L. Smith writes for Wednesday’s Review-Journal:
When I first heard Robert DeNiro had agreed to play a character based on Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal in the Martin Scorsese movie “Casino,” I couldn’t stop grinning.
It was just about perfect. I imagined Rosenthal, a man possessed of a positively gigantic ego, almost allowing himself to be impressed. DeNiro, Brando, Olivier, with the ghost of Cary Grant mixed in for good measure: That would have been ideal by Rosenthal’s measure of himself and his place in gambling’s Pantheon.
