{"id":247,"date":"2009-06-24T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/6\/24\/By-request-"},"modified":"2009-06-24T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T20:40:00","slug":"by-request-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/by-request-2\/","title":{"rendered":"By request …"},"content":{"rendered":"

'Tis another day of hopscotching betwixt the doctor and the dentist, which sure cuts into quality blogging time (as did a nasty attack of fibromyalgia yesterday). However, by reader request, we present this special, (not) exclusive S&G<\/em> photo of a special plenepotentiary<\/a> Apollo<\/strong> [Mis<\/strong>]Managemen<\/strong>t representative — perhaps Leon Black<\/strong> himself …<\/p>\n

\"\" … contemplating piling additional money into Fontainebleau<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Serously,<\/strong> overspending — not lack of business — is what really got this town into its present pickle. Profligacy and\/or dangerous incompetence at the highest levels are the true culprits for the Vegas meltdown. Yet it is people like maids, cocktail servers, security staff and — by extension — customers who are literally paying the price for clownery in the executive suites.<\/p>\n

F'bleau and Cosmopolitan<\/strong> need to take a page from the Echelon<\/strong> playbook: Say "that's a wrap" and wait 'til the economy improves, attendant litigation is settled and the tsunami of new hotel rooms that is CityCenter<\/strong> has ebbed a bit. We don't need multiple new megaresorts now for the simple fact that the market will not support them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then again, if Harrah's Entertainment<\/strong> or Wynn Resorts<\/strong> wants to sail its luxury liner straight into the Big Bleau iceberg (or the Cosmo) … it's their money. Just don't complain to the press when you can't get triple-digit room rates, 'kay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

'Tis another day of hopscotching betwixt the doctor and the dentist, which sure cuts into quality blogging time (as did a nasty attack of fibromyalgia yesterday). However, by reader request, we present this special, (not) exclusive S&G photo of a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,66,59,7,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}