{"id":2213,"date":"2010-02-09T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T00:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2010-02-09T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T00:13:20","slug":"kudos-for-loveman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/kudos-for-loveman\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos for Loveman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harrah&#8217;s Entertainment<\/strong> is no longer going to the dogs &#8212; or won&#8217;t be, if it gets its way in Iowa. It&#8217;s offered to pay the Hawkeye State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20100129\/NEWS10\/1290360\/1011\/We-ll-pay-70-million-if-Iowa-scraps-greyhound-racing-Harrah-s-says\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">a tidy $70 million<\/a> in exchange for being released from its greyhound-racing requirement at two racinos. Since those racino licenses were premised on the running of hundreds of races a year, yes, it&#8217;s a recalibration of the playing field in Harrah&#8217;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, &#8220;<em>If live dog racing were halted, Iowans would be thrown out of work and Harrah&#8217;s would ship profits to its <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> headquarters instead of investing in Iowa, kennel operators told the<\/em> [Des Moines] Register.&#8221; The financially strapped casino operator clearly has enlightened self-interest on its side.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the dog-racing industry is so gosh-darned economically important, why does the State of Iowa need to prop it up by force of law? If Harrah&#8217;s offer is accepted and it pounds a couple more nails into greyhound racing, dog lovers will owe CEO <strong>Gary Loveman<\/strong> a vote of thanks, regardless of his motives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrah&#8217;s Entertainment is no longer going to the dogs &#8212; or won&#8217;t be, if it gets its way in Iowa. It&#8217;s offered to pay the Hawkeye State a tidy $70 million in exchange for being released from its greyhound-racing requirement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/kudos-for-loveman\/\">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":[98,7,86,111,25,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213"}],"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=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}