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Posted At : February 29, 2008 04:39 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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Although a proposed constitutional amendment passed out of committee (shorn of three of Gov. Steve Beshear's 12 casino licenses), the Kentucky Equine Education Project had a tough call to make. It had supported casino legalization, provided that racetracks were explicitly part of the package, for starters. The amendment, as passed, does no such thing. But KEEP has decided to back it all the same. As for Beshear, he's as much in favor of greenhouse gases as casinos, it seems.
Toppling the Palace: Leap Day also marks the end of one of Las Vegas' grindiest grind joints, Nevada Palace. Las Vegas Sun reporter Mike Trask's largely affectionate piece doesn't mince any words: "It was a dive the day it opened and has been slipping ever since ... " (Be sure to check out the Sun's stunning slide show -- in "full screen" mode.)
How decrepit was this little casino that could (a favoritewith the truckers)? It's only going to take a front loader to knock the place down. That still doesn't best my favorite casino-demolition proposal, by Nick Christenson of the invaluable Las Vegas Casino Death Watch, who suggested collapsing the Klondike by having a couple of burly men lean against its walls.
Disillusioned much? Something's eating at Las Vegas Review-Journal gaming/tourism correspondent Benjamin Spillman. Not only did he lash out in the Las Vegas Business Press at casinos, calling them "monuments to gullibility," he's been venting an awful lot lately about the neighborhood in which he works. In a Feb. 8 story about possible redevelopment at the Moulin Rouge, Spillman wrote: "It's in a blighted area of downtown Las Vegas near a soup kitchen, vacant lots and boarded-up storefronts."
The Rouge also happens to be across the street from the claustrophobic, depressing confines of the R-J, where good journalists toil away in narrow study carrels and windowless rooms.
Less than three weeks later, the psychodrama continued: "Since the [Moulin Rouge] closed in late 1955 the neighborhood has continued to decline. In addition to the run-down remnants of the old hotel, it is home to a used-car dealership, a soup kitchen, a United Parcel Service distribution center and numerous empty buildings."
I'm guessing he was happier back in Palm Springs.
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