For those of you who aren’t following it, here’s what you’ve been missing:
• Station [Casinos] shuts Cherry @ Red Rock [Resort], ends flirtation w. Strip-ish nightlife. In Summerlin? Right casino, wrong place. http://tinyurl.com/ye36uqm
• @IOC_Brand Jim Perry, Virginia McDowell & Co. are classy lot. That’s why we made Argosy [Gaming] “Company of the Year” when I was @ Casino Executive.
• @kurtsh Gamblers haven’t had luck holding casinos liable for losses in USA but all it takes is one bad precedent … keep fingers crossed.
• Boffo month came @ price of 82% hotel occupancy & this was pre-CityCenter. Cali drive-in traffic still LV’s main artery. Thrift, Horatio!
• Still wondering why my Mad Men calendar doesn’t have more Christina Hendricks pix, dammit!• A good man wronged: As Chris Rock once said, “Conan [O’Brien] does the best show.” Like [David] Letterman, he’s been sacrificed on the altar of [Jay] Leno. Bastards.
• Meet Marco Rubio, teabagger, casino-basher … and potential U.S. senator from great state of [Florida]. http://tinyurl.com/yfb4pfv
• Gary Loveman defends tribal casinos w. characteristic verbal flair: http://tinyurl.com/ydn89zu
• 6-month delay of UIGEA implementation sends Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) into a snit fit: http://tinyurl.com/ycud8fn
• Lyle Berman many $ short in [Kansas] bid, shopping around Tunica, [Mississippi] casino project anyway: http://tinyurl.com/yem4yfd
• IGT still retrenching, sacks [Oregon] branch on Hewlett-Packard campus; rumored to be setting up shop in China instead. http://tinyurl.com/y9ynoko
• 10% of job applicants @ Boot Hill Casino in [Kansas] not passing regulatory muster. http://tinyurl.com/yblft8h
