Bo Bernhard, executive director of the International Gaming Institute and professor of sociology and hotel management at UNLV, recently gave a TED Talk saying Las Vegas is a smart city. He’s not talking about book smarts but “social intelligence.”
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On the campaign trail, Republican lieutenant governor candidate Sue Lowden touts her decades in business as a casino executive to show she’s more qualified for the job of promoting tourism and economic development than her GOP opponent Mark Hutchison, an attorney and state senator.
After a nearly-six year ownership, German investment house Deutsche Bank announced Thursday it was parting ways with the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the stylish — but unprofitable — Strip hotel-casino and the last megaresort to open after the recession tore apart the gaming industry.
Construction workers this week began dismantling a large crane that has sat unused atop the mothballed Fontainebleau on the North end of Strip for more than five years.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday recommended that Malaysia-based Genting Berhad be found suitable to hold a state gaming license, which will lead the way to development of the $4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas.
Gaming industry icon Burton Cohen died Monday at his home in the Regency Towers in the Las Vegas Country Club, sources tell the Review-Journal. During his 50 years in Las Vegas, Cohen ran a number of major casinos, including Desert Inn, Dunes and Frontier.
The food and beverage director at Texas Station filed a federal lawsuit Friday that accuses her employer of violating the Equal Pay Act.
Members of the Culinary and Bartenders unions voted Thursday to authorize a strike at 10 downtown Las Vegas casinos and two other properties, though they have not determined when strikes could begin. The authorization comes after a more than a year-and-a-half of negotiation with the casinos, said Culinary Local 226 spokeswoman Bethany Khan.
There’s a feudin’ and a fussin’ under the Fremont Street Experience canopy that’s pitting small casino owner Steve Burnstine against longtime downtown powerhouse properties the Golden Nugget and the Golden Gate, as well as the president of the Experience and Las Vegas city government.
A digital billboard paying tribute to the late Jackie Gaughan went up near downtown Las Vegas on Thursday. Gaughan, hailed as “A Las Vegas Legend and Pioneer” on the sign, died Wednesday at age 93.