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Inside Gaming
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Richard N. Velotta’s Inside Gaming column appears Sunday and Wednesday in Business.
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The 2015 Nevada Legislature adjourned on June 1, but the session never ended for state gaming regulators.
He oversees a publicly traded company, but you won’t find Blake Sartini with his attention focused solely on the daily ups and downs of Golden Entertainment’s stock price.
Recent events surrounding the Strip’s troubled northern end are short-term fixes to a problem that can only be resolved with a pair of implosions and a construction effort not witnessed in more than a half-decade.
Don’t look for the floodgates to open now that MGM Resorts International has unveiled its plans for a real estate investment trust.
Downtown Las Vegas is outshining the Strip. Through September, downtown casinos have seen gaming revenue increase almost 6 percent compared to 2014. During those same nine months, the Strip is down 1.5 percent.
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