{"id":156,"date":"2009-06-15T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/6\/15\/Train-to-Nowhere-II"},"modified":"2009-06-15T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:59:00","slug":"train-to-nowhere-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/train-to-nowhere-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Train to Nowhere II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"114\" height=\"162\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/sigrogich.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> Sig Rogich<\/strong>&apos;s choo-choo to nowhere won&apos;t really be the privately funded enterprise that it&apos;s being sold as, the <em>Las Vegas Sun<\/em> h<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/14\/public-or-private-rail-line-will-need-major-subsid\">elpfully explains<\/a>. Bottom line: Rail transportation is inherently unprofitable, so you and I will be ponying up for the R&amp;R Express (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/14\/maglev-or-desertxpress-could-be-your-new-ride\">as in Rogich &amp; Reid<\/a>) sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vegas on TV<\/strong>: Our fair city is showcased on <em>Dateline NBC<\/em> tonight, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/jun\/15\/dateline-nbc-special-focus-vegas-crime\">but not in a nice way<\/a>. Look for the cameo appearance by <strong>Bally&apos;s Las Vegas<\/strong> in the pimp-daddy segment. Judging by the brazen attitude of the miscreants shown in this morning&apos;s preview on <em>Today<\/em>, they&apos;ve taken that &quot;What happens here, stays here&quot; bromide for gospel truth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sig Rogich&apos;s choo-choo to nowhere won&apos;t really be the privately funded enterprise that it&apos;s being sold as, the Las Vegas Sun helpfully explains. Bottom line: Rail transportation is inherently unprofitable, so you and I will be ponying up for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/train-to-nowhere-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,7,33,8,9,100,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}