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Richard N. Velotta
Assistant Business Editor
Email: rvelotta@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 477-3893
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Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
A new esports tournament series will make its debut in Las Vegas this weekend with a format straight out of UFC.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Tuesday unanimously approved a five-year collective bargaining agreement with the Service Employees International Union.
The Culinary union has shifted its attention back to the Strip Tuesday after the successful ratification of two contracts in separate Monday votes.
Paf will become the first international gambling company to introduce a loss limit on Sept. 1. The company says the limit will be 30,000 euros or about $35,000 in U.S. currency a year.
The Raiders say they’ll have a tasty parking plan to serve up in September. Parking for the stadium has been an issue since the day the Russell Road site was chosen for the $1.8 billion project.
The Raiders’ new stadium is going up rapidly — just as the price of game tickets and personal seat licenses surely will. While the team is happy to talk about the former, they aren’t as forthcoming about the latter.
Executives with the off-Strip Westgate are “dismayed” that their property will be the target of picketing by the Culinary union Friday afternoon.
Retired boxing champion Evander Holyfield is among the ownership group seeking to develop a boxing league to be headquartered in Las Vegas.
Representatives of the Culinary union say they’ll picket downtown and at an off-Strip casino Friday to call attention to stalled contract talks.
A waiver that would permit overnight construction of the Las Vegas Convention Center expansion has been put on hold.
Entrepreneurs hoping to bring new product ideas and concepts to the gaming industry will have a chance to do that before two self-made business leaders and a big crowd at this year’s Global Gaming Expo.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to consider hearing a petition to overturn an appellate court ruling on Wynn Las Vegas’ tip-sharing policy marks another stop on the long, tortuous road traveld since the tip policy was announced in 2006.
Nevada’s gaming win returned to its billion-dollar ways in May, posting a monthly total of $1.04 billion, a 5.3 percent increase over last year, the state reported Friday.
The Service Employees International Union has reached a tentative five-year contract agreement with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, a union representative said Thursday.