I heard that the employee dining room and three or four restaurants at the Gold Nugget were closed by the Health Department for "imminent threats to health." In a word, what the heck?

Revel, the struggling megaresort in Atlantic City, is entirely smoke-free. How much does this have to do with its money problems?

The QOD regarding expansion at the M Resort made me wonder about ownership of the Colorado Belle and Edgewater casinos in Laughlin. My recollection is that the Marnell family bought them from MGM Mirage for the purpose of giving Anthony Marnell III operational experience before the M was finished. The murky part is if these properties were given up to Penn during their purchase of the M. Can you provide any light into this dark corner of the universe?

In the Jan. 13 QOD, you seem to indicate that the Cosmo wasn't doing well. Can you expand on that? I thought it was going great.

When was the actual date when Megabucks first started? Has Megabucks ever hit twice with the same casino?

I am confused. Is there or is there not going to be a Bloomingdale's built in Summerlin or wherever, and if so how big is it going to be and when will it be done?

I heard on the radio, here in Michigan, that there were a couple of recent instances in Las Vegas where a man shot his girlfriend, then killed himself at Excalibur, and at the Bellagio a woman blackjack dealer stabbed another dealer at the tables. Can you expand on these?

In a recent QOD you said: "Revel, Atlantic City’s new, $2.4 billion megaresort seems almost certain to go bankrupt not only due to its price tag: Customers are avoiding it like the plague." Can you elaborate as to why "Customers are avoiding it like the plague"??

I heard recently that all the lions that were at the MGM habitat are kept out near the "M" Casino, and that 30 to 35 lions are housed out there. Is that true and can you give us more info about that?

Happy New Year!