Back on the day President Obama nominated 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the man who chortled while celebrating the federal actions that burned to death dozens of minority women and children at the Mount Carmel Church in Waco, Texas, 16 years ago, warned his Republican colleagues that any who opposed this nomination would do so at their “own peril.”
Boot Camp Las Vegas owner Julie Johnston should consider moonlighting as a lobbyist, or — as the Euphemism Police prefer to call them — a “government relations specialist.” When ordered by heavy-handed Clark County officials to keep her fitness classes out of public parks, the businesswoman challenged a bureaucracy overflowing with arrogance and short on common sense — all the way to the County Commission.
Regulators are shining a spotlight into Las Vegas’ booming nightclub industry. The new scrutiny, particularly this month’s decisions by gaming regulators to fine Planet Hollywood Resort $500,000 and by the county to deny Privé a liquor license, has prompted new interest in the class aimed at increasing professionalism in the nightclub industry.
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Penn National Gaming’s profit fell some 23 percent in the second quarter as lower-than-expected results from its casinos in Indiana, West Virginia and New Mexico drove down results.
Organizers of the largest annual trade show and convention in North America are walking out on space at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
A bankruptcy court judge in Reno will begin hearing motions today in Station Casinos’ bankruptcy case, which one analyst suggested could last at least a year.
Las Vegas, for now, has the funds to pay for union contracts that have been hammered out or altered in light of a grim economic picture, Mayor Oscar Goodman said Thursday.
But only for now.
“We’ve probably managed our funds better than anyone else in the entire valley, to be quite frank with you, and we can’t say that we’re broke,” he said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s latest haul of campaign cash included $114,000 in bundled contributions from lobbyists and political action committees, according to a newly required disclosure his campaign filed this month with the Federal Election Commission.
Two more Clark County residents died during the past week from the H1N1 virus, a Southern Nevada Health District spokeswoman said today.
Investigators copied hard drives and seized a cell phone, binders and other documents Tuesday during their searches of the Las Vegas home and office of Michael Jackson’s doctor, according to the search warrants released today.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. paid three men $42.5 million to settle a lawsuit in June, according to the casino operator’s second-quarter earnings release Thursday.
The figure contributed to the company’s net loss of $222.2 million in the quarter that ended June 30.
Filmmaker Stan Armstrong is shooting his latest documentary, “Moulin Rouge – The Las Vegas Misunderstood Legend.” It should be a good one. This week Armstrong interviewed D.C. Ryder, a D.J. who set the mood at Club Rouge for many years.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he dealt a fatal blow to the funding-starved Yucca Mountain Project on Thursday, announcing that President Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu have agreed to eliminate all money for pursuing a license for the nuclear waste disposal project in 2011.
