{"id":15792,"date":"2015-03-27T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=15792"},"modified":"2015-03-27T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:35:40","slug":"quote-of-the-day-620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-620\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"MGM National Harbor\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor-150x68.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThis is still capitalism. [A\u00a0community benefits agreement] provides you the opportunity to compete, but there is no special treatment, and there is no guarantee that you would win.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>Roland L.\u00a0Jones<\/strong>,\u00a0director of the <strong>Prince George&#8217;s County<\/strong>\u00a0Office of Central Services, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/at-casino-progress-event-mgm-says-its-meeting-local-contracting-goals\/2015\/03\/25\/e9248c90-d195-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">responding to criticism<\/a> that <strong>MGM National Harbor<\/strong> is overlooking\u00a0\u201cqualified and experienced\u201d minority businesses in its contracting process. So far, 500,000 cubic tons of soil have been moved an 6,000 pilings have been driven<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is still capitalism. [A\u00a0community benefits agreement] provides you the opportunity to compete, but there is no special treatment, and there is no guarantee that you would win.\u201d &#8212; Roland L.\u00a0Jones,\u00a0director of the Prince George&#8217;s County\u00a0Office of Central Services, responding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-620\/\">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":[72,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792"}],"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=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15793,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions\/15793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}