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Benjamin Spillman Gaming Guru - Page 11Owner of Fitz under attack16 July 2008
PENNSYLVANIA -- Legislators in Pennsylvania want to revoke Las Vegas casino owner Don Barden's license to run a casino in their state.
Barden recently lost control of a casino project in Pittsburgh when he couldn't line up financing to retain a majority stake in the deal and now seeks to shift control to new investors.
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Controllers say low staffing won't fly14 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Disputes over staffing levels in the nation's air traffic control towers have poisoned relations between controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration and could affect airfields from Las Vegas to New York.
The number of fully certified air traffic controllers at McCarran International Airport fell from 86 in 2002 to 54 today, a difference of nearly 37 percent. ... (read more)
Las Vegas tourism numbers hold firm14 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The number of people who visited Las Vegas in May held strong at 3.4 million, despite a 15 percent decline in the amount of money they lost gambling in Sin City casinos.
The disparity indicates people are still coming to Las Vegas; they're just spending less money after they ... (read more)
Fitz off the market for now14 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Don Barden won't need to sell Fitzgeralds to maintain a stake in a slots-only casino in Pittsburgh, but the downtown Las Vegas casino remains an asset he could use to generate cash for his struggling gambling portfolio.
On Thursday, Barden announced he will relinquish a ... (read more)
Land-value raise may lift Lady Luck8 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- City-owned land that developers want to buy in conjunction with a revival of the downtown Lady Luck casino could fetch twice as much money as originally thought -- although critics of the plan say the city could get even more.
The land value grew because early negotiations ... (read more)
Southern Nevada economy: Wondering where the tourists are8 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada –- Nicolas and Juanita Cignetti are bringing down Las Vegas just as they built it, a little bit at a time.
The Canton, Ohio, couple has been visiting Las Vegas -- sometimes as often as six times a year -- since the Rat Pack prowled the Sands hotel and a gallon of gasoline cost 33 ... (read more)
Nevada at work: Exec aims to keep people loving Las Vegas8 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The lords of Las Vegas have built and imploded the Strip three times in the past 50 years.
Through it all -- the mob reign, the Howard Hughes revolution, the rise of the megaresorts -- Rossi Ralenkotter had a front-row seat.
Ralenkotter, born in Covington, Ky., moved to Las ... (read more)
Vanishing at warp speed2 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- It's as official as an entry in the Captain's Log.
Star Trek: The Experience will end its 11-year run at the Las Vegas Hilton on Sept. 1.
The demise of the attraction had been rumored for months, but it wasn't until this week that managers told about 160 workers the lease at ... (read more)
Gambling stocks tumble on economic woes2 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- If the stock market were a casino, investors in Las Vegas gambling stocks would be the bleary-eyed guy in the wrinkled suit watching helplessly as the dealer plucks chips from the felt.
Nine of 10 stocks on an index of publicly traded gambling companies lost value in June, ... (read more)
Laughlin: Expanding horizons23 June 2008
LAUGHLIN -- A swath of barren real estate roughly one-third the size of Summerlin will broaden the town of Laughlin's horizon far beyond the riverside casino resorts that define today's skyline, now that local leaders have wrested control of the land from the state of Nevada.
That's what ... (read more)
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