http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lasvegas/ en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:13:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410173/posts Sheldon Adelson on his casino company's plans for Macau, Singapore--and, perhaps, Europe. In 2007 Sheldon Adelson was America's third richest man. Before the collapse of the markets last year, shares of his Las Vegas Sands casino company traded at more than $140 a share, maxing out his personal fortune at nearly $40 billion. These days he's worth a mere $9 billion, 26th on the most recent Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans. "The Forbes 400 is a report card for the wealthy, and seeing it this year hurt," he says. "I got a bad report card." Now he's vowing... Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410173/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:13:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409091/posts During the Summer of 2007, I was approached by a group of concerned veterans in regard to a problem they had run into. These men had been attempting to get approval to have a USO-style facility put into the local airport. Without such a facility, soldiers traveling through McCarran Airport have had to sleep on the floor while waiting for a connecting flight—sometimes up to 3 nights in a row. Their food costs are as high as $20 for a dinky sandwich and a small bottle of juice. The average soldier is paid roughly just a bit over minimum wage.... Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409091/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:48:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408730/posts The Sahara closed two of its three hotel towers for the winter season because of low demand, but the casino and other amentities will remain open, a property spokeswoman confirmed. “Two towers of the Sahara Hotel will remain dark based on demand through the holiday winter,” an e-mail statement said late Monday. “Upon further demand, Sahara Hotel will make more rooms available.” ............................................... Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel downtown closed all of its hotel rooms Monday and cut 100 positions. The downtown casino company also blamed the decline in visitor traffic and revenues for the closing. Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408730/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:23:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384565/posts "Stripper-mobile" Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct Just read an article about a truck that drives around Las Vegas with a stripper dancing in it, and boy are my preconceived notions about that place tired (from being completely confirmed.) Whatever happens in Vegas, is ridiculous in Vegas. The article (which is incomprehensibly only the second most-read article on the Las Vegas Sun's website) focuses on the "safety" and "decency" concerns raised by locals re: the mobile sin platform, which was devised as an advertisement for Deja Vu Showgirls and is described thusly: It's akin to a small U-Haul truck but... GAWKER http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384565/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:01:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392928/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Terror Charges Unsealed in Minnesota Against Eight Defendants, Justice Department Announces The Justice Department announced that terrorism charges have been unsealed today in the District of Minnesota against eight defendants. According to the charging documents, the offenses include providing financial support to those who traveled to Somalia to fight on behalf of al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization; attending terrorist training camps operated by al-Shabaab; and fighting on behalf of al-Shabaab. Thus far, 14 defendants have been charged in the District of Minnesota in indictments or criminal complaints that have been unsealed and... Minneapolis.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392928/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:17:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392929/posts North Las Vegas Police arrested two more teenagers Sunday in the death of a Metro Police officer killed last week at his North Las Vegas home. Quadrae Scott and Emmitt Ferguson, both 18, of North Las Vegas, were booked into the North Las Vegas Detention Center at about 8:15 p.m. Sunday. Scott was arrested in connection with one count each of murder with a deadly weapon with a gang enhancement, attempted robbery with a deadly weapon with a gang enhancement and conspiracy to commit robbery. Ferguson was arrested in connection with one count of accessory to murder after the fact. Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392929/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:18:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2392112/posts The Las Vegas city council passed a new ordinance this past week requiring most cats and dogs to be spay or neutered by four months of age, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The ordinance, which passed the city council by a vote of 5 to 2, is an effort to help curb pet overpopulation. The ordinance takes effect April 1 and will be reviewed annually. It is in response to Southern Nevada’s pet overpopulation problem and had support from local veterinarians and animal rescue groups, according to the Review-Journal. It's noted that the Lied Animal Shelter, which services Las Vegas,... Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2392112/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:07:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367353/posts ADD to post no. 105: http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/docs/terror_complaint.pdf http://www2.lasvegasnow.com/docs/terror_indict.pdf LAS VEGAS, NV — SNIPPET: “The real end, however, came in a Minnesota Federal Court. Two weeks ago, the FBI arrested Abdow Munye Abdow for two counts of making false statements to a federal official. The FBI believes Abdow lied about his trip to Las Vegas, and a passenger he was with who was on the terrorism watch list. The Nevada Highway Patrol pulled over Abdow and four other people on October 6, 2009 for speeding. Trooper Alan Davidson, a spokesperson for NHP, said the officer on the scene began asking questions.” SNIPPET:... LAS VEGAS NOW.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367353/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:29:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386570/posts The stripper-mobile won’t be the talk of the town — or the nation — much longer. Las Vegas attorney Jay Brown, who represents Little Darlings and Déjà Vu strip clubs, said the controversial Strip run of the U-Haul-like truck outfitted with Plexiglas walls to showcase clothed strippers is over. “My client has authorized me to make it clear that due to concerns of County Commissioners Chris Giunchigliani and Steve Sisolak, and because my client wants to be a good citizen, effective immediately that truck is offline,” Brown said Friday afternoon. Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386570/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:28:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2373902/posts The family of Chris Privett wept in court Monday. So did the family of his killer, Gerald Davison. But the 17-year-old simply smirked in court and offered a halfhearted apology for shooting the Palo Verde High School student in February 2008. "I dont know how to apologize for for taking your son's life away," he said, shrugging his shoulders. "Sorry ain't going to cut it but that's all i can tell y'all. Sorry." Fox5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2373902/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:18:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365726/posts ACORN,the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, faces still another high-stakes challenge — and more embarrassment — in Nevada, where it has been charged with 13 felony counts related to potential voter registration fraud during the 2008 campaign. This is the only state where ACORN, as an organization, is accused of criminal wrongdoing. Similar investigations in Pennsylvania and Florida have resulted in charges against individual canvassers the group hired to register voters. “With ACORN, one wonders how it could get worse for them,” said Tom Fitton, president of Washington-based Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog group that has been... Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365726/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:55:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365402/posts CROC hunter Steve Irwin's dream of opening an Aussie zoo in Las Vegas is to be realised, three years after his death. Nevada officials say plans for an Australia-themed zoo in desert gaming mecca are back on the agenda. Representatives for the Irwins met Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman last week to discuss resurrecting their proposal for a US Australia Zoo featuring crocodile wrestling. "It looks like a great project with a crocodile-type enclosure where they would wrestle with the crocodiles and feed the crocodiles and have a real educational component to it and we're going to continue those discussions,"... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365402/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:15:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360644/posts Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will head to Las Vegas at the end of the month for a well-backed, high-priced fundraiser with perhaps the Republican Party's wealthiest donor. Crist will benefit from a fundraiser at the Palazzo Hotel and Casino, one of the newest casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, on Oct. 29. His host, Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson, is the 26th-richest man in America, according to Forbes magazine. Adelson funded the conservative group Freedom's Watch during the 2008 campaign, spending millions of dollars to attack then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Democratic candidates up and down the ballot.... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360644/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:43:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355449/posts The Nevada Secretary of State was on television all weekend discussing his office's prosecution of ACORN. The Secretary of State, Ross Miller, is himself a Democrat. That's important, obviously, because ACORN's first reaction to most investigations is to say they are political. Given Miller's party affiliation that is harder to do. Much more important that that, Miller's office isn't going after some of the help. Instead, they are going after ACORN itself. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2355449/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:04:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2354718/posts If an organization that is funded largely by George Soros, Herb and Marion Sandler, and a variety of other foundations (often established by conservative businessmen and which now are totally controlled by left-oriented administrators like Ford and Annenberg) tells you it does serious journalistic investigation in the public interest and calls itself the Center for Public Integrity, I suggest you take their offerings with a boulder of salt. Last year at this time, it was evident to every open-minded person that ACORN was engaged in widespread voter registration fraud under the cover of helping 1.7 million unregistered (and given the... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2354718/posts#comment Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:51:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352119/posts A judge has ruled that political advocacy group ACORN and a former employee will stand trial in District Court on felony charges they paid canvassers to collect voter registration cards last year. Arraignment was set for 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 14. Former ACORN Las Vegas field director Christopher Edwards testified Tuesday that he created a bonus incentive program called “Blackjack” or “21+” that awarded an extra $5 to any canvasser who collected at least 21 registration cards. His immediate supervisor, Amy Busefink, welcomed the idea and he bragged about its success on conference calls with his peers around the country,... Las Vegas Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352119/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 01:39:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350244/posts Chris Edwards, the former Las Vegas Director for ACORN has "flipped" for the Nevada AG's prosecution of ACORN in voter fraud case. Matthew Vadum of Capital Resource Center claims the Nevada AG has possession of ACORN Resource Manual which includes a registration incentive scheme called, "21" that paid cash bonuses.FOX News video of interview here and at link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaIeMogWa4 Fox News via patriotsandheros channel YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350244/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:54:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2351189/posts LAS VEGAS — When ACORN took to Las Vegas and started playing "Blackjack" and "21," the activist group was making a far bigger gamble than it ever guessed, according to Nevada prosecutors. There's nothing wrong with playing the tables in Vegas, but authorities say ACORN was using the names of those casino games as a cover to illegally pay workers to sign up voters as part of an illegal quota system. A preliminary hearing Tuesday in the downtown Clark County courthouse has put ACORN on trial for the first time as a criminal defendant. Until now, prosecutions for voter registration... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2351189/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:11:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351296/posts LAS VEGAS -- Testimony has begun before a judge hearing allegations that the political advocacy group ACORN illegally paid canvassers to register voters in Nevada during last year's presidential campaign. The judge will decide after an evidentiary hearing whether to bind the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and former regional supervisor Amy Busefink over for trial on felony charges. They are accused of paying bonuses to canvassers who turned in at least 21 voter registration cards per day in the summer of 2008. Prosecutors said that violates state law banning voter signup quotas. Former ACORN organizer Christopher Edwards... Vegas Fox 5 News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351296/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:54:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349849/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Jury Convicts Defense Department Official of Unlawful Communication of Classified Information and Making False Statements James Wilbur Fondren Jr., was convicted by a federal jury today on charges involving providing classified information to a man working with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and lying to the FBI about it. Fondren was convicted of one count of unlawfully communicating classified information to an agent of a foreign government and two counts of making false statements to the FBI. He was acquitted of two unlawful communication of classified information, one count of conspiracy to... US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349849/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:16:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349492/posts Over the past 25 years, Larry Valdez has worked as an electrician in Grand Junction, Colo.; Duluth, Minn.; Salem, Ore.; and more than a dozen other places. A skilled tradesman with a union card, he could always hop from one job to the next, building a mall, a power plant or a microchip factory. Five years ago, he landed in Las Vegas as developers were breaking ground on a series of lavish hotels and casinos on the Strip. Thousands of carpenters, ironworkers, electricians, pipefitters and other tradesmen were lured here by the concrete and steel rising from the desert --... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349492/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:40:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346917/posts LOVEBIRDS Steven and Kathryn share a well-organised home in bustling Las Vegas. They have a neat, if compact kitchen, a furnished living area, and a bedroom complete with double bed, wardrobe and bookshelf featuring a wide selection including a Frank Sinatra biography and Spanish phrase book. And they make their money in some of the biggest casinos in the world. But their life is far from the ordinary. Because, along with hundreds of others, the couple are part of a secret community living in the dark and dirty underground flood tunnels below the famous strip. Rather than working in the... The UK Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346917/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:53:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343699/posts Unemployment continues to set records in Nevada and Las Vegas, and experts forecast higher joblessness in coming months even as the city's biggest resort begins hiring Monday. Unemployment has spiked nearly a percentage point statewide, jumping from 12.5 percent in July to 13.2 percent in August, the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation said Friday. August's statewide unemployment rate was nearly triple the level at the recession's beginning in December 2007, when joblessness clocked in at 5.2 percent. [Snip] Officially, 183,000 Nevadans were out of work and actively hunting for jobs in August. In Las Vegas, 135,100 residents were... Las Vegas Review Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343699/posts#comment Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:21:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099758/posts LAS VEGAS, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Nevada authorities said Tuesday they raided the Las Vegas offices of the controversial voter-registration activist group, ACORN. The Secretary of State's Office confirmed to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a search warrant was served at the ACORN office as part of a probe into suspected voter registration fraud. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has been under withering attack from the Republican Party for allegedly signing up unqualified voters in order to boost Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama. ACORN has stated that while it indeed targets low-income voters, it is... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099758/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 18:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339412/posts This editorial from Investor's Business Daily is worth the read.And, this part is worth a fleeting note: Part of it has to do with Reid's rise to Senate minority leader and then majority leader in 2006. His constituents increasingly feel left behind. Sherman Frederick, publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, wrote in 2006: " 'Sen. Reid;s undoing came early in his last term when he became a big shot in the Democratic Party and quickly morphed into someone Nevada voters did not recognize - his political girlfreind in the House, uber-liberal Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California.' " Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339412/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:28:49 GMT