When the Washington Post and “60 Minutes” teamed up for news stories portraying online poker players as consumers who need protection from cheats, the impact seemed obvious. The odds of passage of U.S. Rep. Barney Frank’s bill legalizing and regulating online gambling became stronger.
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Memo to Tom Mitchell:
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If Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki hadn’t launched his first-strike offensive, his indictment Wednesday would have been a huge surprise. But because he went public beforehand, insisting he was the victim of political shenanigans, the seed was planted that his indictment was nothing more than a political assault by Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto serving as the tool of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Everyone I take to Hoover Dam loves the engineering, the artistry, the history, and the sheer awesomeness. First the dam, then lunch at Milo’s in Boulder City makes one memorable day trip.
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Any chance you went to high school with someone who became famous? I did. Actor John Larroquette and Broadway and movie star Ann Reinking. Can you top that?
I give thanks today for my mother’s smile.
Dr. Michael Braunstein has been an anesthesiologist in Las Vegas for more than 30 years. For the past 15 years, he has had a separate business called IME, where he looks for medical billing errors. In other words, he knows what he’s doing, unlike the rest of us, who stare at complex medical bills in bewilderment and wish upon a star that they’re accurate.
Imagine how uncomfortable it would have been if MGM Mirage boss Terry Lanni had been standing before Nevada gaming regulators Thursday urging them to allow Dubai World to invest billions more in the gaming company.
Paranoid. Willful. Mercurial. Disrespectful. Loud. Offensive. Boorish. Quixotic. Impaired. Combative. Imperial. Unrepentant. Disrespectful. And a liar unfit to be a judge.
The election is over, the holiday season is nigh and you’d think the feds wouldn’t be in the mood to indict. But the scuttlebutt is that Dr. Mark Kabins may be indicted before 2008 ends.
Choosing a new U.S. attorney for Nevada hasn’t made it to the top of President-elect Barack Obama’s to-do list, but that doesn’t mean Nevadans aren’t already thinking about it.
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