{"id":183,"date":"2008-12-16T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/12\/16\/Scary-clown-on-Strip"},"modified":"2008-12-16T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T18:24:00","slug":"scary-clown-at-echelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/scary-clown-at-echelon\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary clown at Echelon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me say at the outset, I do not like <strong>Ronald McDonald<\/strong>. He gave me creeps as a child and still does. (The thought of him wanting to buddy up to you &#8230; it&apos;s just disturbing.) The <strong>Ronald McDonald Houses<\/strong>, on the other hand, are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmhc.com\" class=\"broken_link\">a great and good thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, after tasking <strong>MGM Mirage<\/strong> &#8212; perhaps excessively &#8212; over its $5K donation to Clark County&apos;s <strong>Music in the Schools<\/strong> program (a drop in the bucket in a year when Gov. <strong>Jim Gibbons<\/strong> is taking a flamethrower to Nevada&apos;s education budgets), some perspective is in order. MGM&apos;s donation absolutely blows away the meager <strong>$1,576.10<\/strong> donated to <strong>Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas<\/strong> at the opening of <strong>Viva McDonalds<\/strong>, the only part of the <strong>Echelon<\/strong> master plan to open as &#8230; as &#8230; well, as planned. (See the yellow box, halfway down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com\/echelon_place.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">&quot;Echelon&quot; page<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/Check_donation.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The guy in the goofy suit to Ronald McD&apos;s right is <strong>Mac King<\/strong>, magician and fellow alumnus of <strong>Macalester College<\/strong>. (He was two years ahead of me scholastically and remains light years ahead of me career-wise.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">At least RHMC of Greater LV doesn&apos;t need to feel <em>quite<\/em> so bad. It made out like a bandit compared to Mayor <strong>Oscar Goodman<\/strong>. He got a shoe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/Mayor_Oscar_B._Goodman_with_red_shoe_and_Ronald_McDonald_with_key_to_the_city.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me say at the outset, I do not like Ronald McDonald. He gave me creeps as a child and still does. (The thought of him wanting to buddy up to you &#8230; it&apos;s just disturbing.) The Ronald McDonald Houses, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/scary-clown-at-echelon\/\">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":[60,24,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}