My wife and I will be in Vegas from march 6th through the 15th. Can you tell me if there is going to be a St. Patrick's day parade downtown this year.

This being the fourth anniversary of HST's choice to leave this plane ... where exactly was the Mint casino and what is the history of the MINT 400?

Is my mind playing tricks on me or did this really happen as I remember? I could swear that in the '70s, a downtown casino was offering "behind-the-scenes" tours of security, which included actually going up into the catwalks over the casino floor and watching the security guys with their binoculars looking through one-way mirror panels (no cameras at that time). Both my father and I remember taking this tour, but my mother and wife say we're crazy. Was such a tour ever offered or did I dream this?

What do you make of the big flap over President Obama dissing Las Vegas as a place to hold a convention?

This may seem like an odd question, but I assure you it is for real. I am a walker. I love to walk long distances in any kind of weather. So, is there a way to walk from McCarran Airport to the Strip? Are there sidewalks? Is it safe? Ten miles is nothing to me, even in extreme weather.

I stayed at the MGM Grand in Jan 2009 and heard it's no longer the largest resort in the world? Is that true?

Awhile back you mentioned that the price for the 24-hour Deuce bus was going up to $7. Has it happened yet? If not, when will it take effect? We'll be there in march and want to make sure we have the right amount of cash. Thanks.

There was a little blurb in our newspaper last Sunday about the mob museum in Las Vegas. How long will it be till it's opened?

The February 2009 issue of the Las Vegas Advisor points out that the super-fancy and elitist Encore casino has severely restrictive and ungenerous rules for gambling, but the Eastside Cannery will have much looser and gambler-friendly rules to be revealed soon. Explain to me what I'm not understanding, but in the section under "Encore Gambling," LVA states that in 6-deck blackjack games, the dealer stands on soft 17, and the player may double after splitting, resplit aces, and surrender. Aren’t these blackjack rules so liberal and loose as to be comparable to Atlantic City rules? Is there any casino in or around Las Vegas that has such loose blackjack rules as the Encore?

I have a vague recollection that Debbie Reynolds once had a casino and hotel in Las Vegas. How’s my memory? Is it so that there was a Debbie Reynolds Casino & Hotel?