It’s not enough for governments to seize your wealth against your will and spend it in ways that you don’t support. Nevada bureaucrats also use some of those seized revenues to hobnob with their peers at other levels of government — only they’re not lobbying for lower tax burdens or to request the elimination of ineffective or redundant government services.
Southern Nevada’s public officials have intensified efforts to ensure that federal policies allow government travel to Las Vegas.
Hotel industry veteran and former Caesars Palace general manager John Unwin has been named as the Cosmopolitan’s chief executive officer. Unwin, who resigned his position at Caesars Palace after five years last week, will join the $3.9 billion hotel-condominium-casino project in October.
A medical convention in town this week is bringing health and fitness knowledge to neighborhoods where medical advice is scarce. “We practice as one community, we care about the nation,” Carolyn Barley Britton, president of National Medical Association, said of the organization’s volunteer efforts in communities where it convenes. “We just don’t come and keep our eyes on ourselves.”
Nevada gaming regulators fared better than other state agencies at the Legislature.
Station Casinos on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 protection after reaching an impasse in months-long negotiations with creditors on a plan to restructure the gaming company’s $5.7 billion debt load.
“We have been working with the various creditor groups for months and it has been very difficult to get all of the creditors to come to a consensual agreement among themselves and with the company,” Chief Accounting Officer Thomas Friel said.
Apartments are getting cheaper to rent in Las Vegas thanks to increased competition from the “shadow market” of single-family rental homes, a commercial broker said Tuesday.
Federal drug enforcement agents and Los Angeles police descended on the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jackson’s doctor Tuesday in their continuing probe of the pop star’s death.