MGM Resorts International reported CityCenter had net revenues of $413 million during the third quarter and cash flow of $52.4 million, its first positive quarter after losing money during its first six months.
LOS ANGELES — On Monday, Rick Fox earned his highest “Dancing With the Stars” scores yet. But on Tuesday, the basketball star was bounced from the ballroom. The star-studded show was interrupted regularly with election returns.
WASHINGTON — Former President George W. Bush says in his new memoir that he considered running for re-election in 2004 without Dick Cheney as his vice presidential candidate. After much thought, he ultimately decided to keep Cheney on the ticket. Bush said he wanted to put an end to assertions by critics that Cheney was the real decision-maker and to “demonstrate that I was in charge.”
SAN FRANCISCO — Californians heeded warnings of legal chaos and other dangers and rejected a ballot measure Tuesday that would have made their state the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The spirited campaign over Proposition 19 pitted the state’s political and law enforcement establishment against determined activists seeking to end the prohibition of pot. It was by far the highest-profile of the 160 ballot measures being decided in 37 states.
The machine worked. The full-throttle, get-out-the-vote engine the Democrats built in Nevada in 2008 roared to life again, this time to re-elect Harry Reid to his fifth term in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.
In one of the closest Nevada races of 2010, Republican challenger Joe Heck upset Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., in Congressional District 3.
CARSON CITY – There will be no supermajorities for Democrats in either the state Senate or Assembly in the 2011 session, meaning the parties will have to work together and with Republican Gov.-elect Brian Sandoval on issues from taxes to redistricting.