I recently moved to Las Vegas and am still in the process of going through boxes. In one of them, I found a 2015 Wall Street Journal article about Project Jackpot, an 18-acre site on the Strip with a Walgreens and Travelodge, but evidently ripe for development. Whatever happened to the site?

We always stay either on the Strip or at a locals casino, but have never stayed downtown. However, we always spend an evening or two downtown to see the Fremont Street Experience, the Mob Museum, etc., and gamble for a while. Last year some of the so-called street performers were so filthy in their dress, mannerisms, language, and more that we have decided to write off downtown unless this scum is either banned or forced to clean up their act. We spoke to a police officer about one particularly disgusting guy and were told that at that time they were protected by some ridiculous and obviously outdated law that had not yet been repealed. Are they still there or has Fremont Street been cleaned up in the last year or so?

An article in the business section of the R-J on Saturday, October 1, about the grand opening of the American headquarters of the Australian slot manufacturing company Ainsworth, called its founder Len Ainsworth "the father of video poker." I was under the impression that that title belonged to Si Redd of IGT. Please explain the discrepancy.

I fly to Vegas and don't rent a car. The great transportation section on your website helps me get wherever I want to go very inexpensively (free shuttles, Monorail, etc.). Is there any easy, and maybe inexpensive, way to get to the recently opened Cracker Barrel located at 8350 Dean Martin Drive? I assume there aren't any closer. Their chicken and dumplings are yummy!

With the likely demise of Hotel32, is there anything closely comparable elsewhere? Am discounting the larger operations such as Delano, Four Seasons, Nobu; I like the idea of the smaller boutique hotel within a hotel.

How do you get a book published by Huntington Press? Does someone approach the person or do people bring manuscripts to you? Is it mostly well-known people in the gambling world or can a regular person bring a book to you? With that in mind, if you can and are willing to answer, what is the average profit for books and what was best money maker of all time for Huntington?

In your Question of the Day on 10/3/2016, the one about the ladies’ room at the Fremont, you wrote that QoD is now an "all-male province." What happened to long-time QoD-answerer Jessica? And You said that Jessica is gone from the QOD and now it's all male. Too bad. I enjoyed her humor and wit. I'm looking forward to seeing what the new person brings to the column. And My husband and I are going to miss Jessica. We loved her off-the-wall asides and detours to Quirkyland. Her answers were the perfect combination of extensive research and fun.

Now that Nevada Gaming Commission approved the licenses for Stations and Boyd for Palms and Aliante, respectively, how long do you think it will be before Boarding Pass and B Connected systems are implemented?

This is a question for your legal department. First the scenerio: My wife and her brother were in a Michigan casino (Soaring Eagle). My wife, who never plays the slots, sat down at a machine next to her brother, put her card in, put in a twenty, and began playing. She was winning, finally looked at her credits and saw she had $110. She cashed out. Now comes a casino employee with two security guards. They did not identify themselves, were very rude, and accused her of stealing $98 from an old man who was playing that machine and left the credits on it. My wife did not notice the credits and asked to see the man. Now comes another employee with two more security guards. They threatened prosecution. They produced a printout of the machine’s activity from the office and said they had the proof. My wife, 68, has cancer, is very timid, paid the money, and they went away. She never did see the old man. Is this normal procedure? Does this happen in Vegas casinos? Is it legal?

I like gambling at the Fremont Hotel in downtown Las Vegas, but the last several times that I have been there, I have noticed a strong vibration in the women's restroom near the buffet. The vibration is so bad that the stalls are shaking and rattling. It has been like this since at least June of this year, when I first noticed it. It could be longer, though. I am just wondering if an old building like this can handle a strong vibration for this many months without damage being done to the structure of the whole building. It feels like a constant earthquake that never stops. Can you check this out and tell me if this is something to worry about? I feel like it could collapse at any moment.