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MGM National Harbor shines as brightly as any Strip property

MGM Resorts International’s $1.4 billion Maryland property opened Thursday night. So how would MGM National Harbor fare if it were plopped down on the Strip? It would hold up quite favorably.

Don’t like Strip casino parking fees? Blame the airlines

Tourism is a copycat business world with few original ideas so it isn’t hard to look at what airlines have done over the past decade to see the Strip parking correlation.

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New York’s gaming tax revenue may surpass Nevada’s

New York is on track to collect more casino tax revenue than Nevada this year. If that happens, Nevada will become the No. 3 state in the union for collecting tax revenue from the casinos within its borders

Check out these nine takeaways from our trip to Macau

Here are nine takeaways from the week photojournalist Erik Verduzco and I spent in Macau for Tuesday’s opening of the Parisian Macao. There’s a lot to be said for “everything under one roof.”

Lively questions addressed in new book on Nevada gaming law, procedures

Those are some provoking questions addressed in the new edition of the “Nevada Gaming Law Practice and Procedure Manual,” unveiled last month in a reception during a gaming law conference at UNLV.

Gaming win statistics a roller-coaster ride in Southern Nevada

Anyone who has studied the numbers regularly knows that the gaming win statistics for Southern Nevada’s geographic regions are extremely volatile. One month, an area may be up by double-digit percentages. The next, it could be down by double-digit percentages. Then, maybe the next month, it levels off, only to climb high, then drop low, just like the Desperado coaster at Primm, a personal favorite.

Before the puck drops in Las Vegas, challenges will arise

We’ll have to endure the summer heat twice before we get to see the puck drop at T-Mobile Arena for the Las Vegas Whatever-We’re-Going-to-Call-Them hockey team competing in the National Hockey League’s 2017-18 season.

Conference brings out tales of historic opening of The Mirage

With several presentations vying for attention at the same time at last week’s 16th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, it wasn’t too surprising that it was a small and mostly local crowd that showed up to hear four panelists talk about opening day at The Mirage more than 25 years ago.

Writer could only dream how growth would change gaming industry

When my journalism career landed me in Las Vegas in 1991, The Mirage and the Excalibur had recently opened. At that time, I could only imagine the explosive growth on the horizon for the Strip and how the gaming industry was going to forever change.

After a short break Wynn-Macau love affair back on

Steve Wynn was calm and complimentary toward the Macau government 12 days ago during the company’s fourth-quarter conference call.