{"id":5098,"date":"2010-11-08T17:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T01:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2010-11-08T17:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T01:40:43","slug":"juice-job-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/juice-job-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Juice job of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3207\" title=\"ip-pic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ip-pic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ip-pic.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ip-pic-150x104.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Harrah&#8217;s Entertainment<\/strong> and the <strong>AFL-CIO<\/strong> have collected the requisite 20,000 signatures to place <a href=\"http:\/\/slashpolitics.lvcitylife.com\/2010\/11\/cant-wait-for-the-new-downtown-arena\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">its request for a publicly funded stadium<\/a> out back of <strong>Imperial Palace<\/strong> (currently a vast, dark wasteland) before <strong>Nevada<\/strong> solons. CEO <strong>Gary Loveman<\/strong> would throw in some acreage and taxpayers &#8212; tourists and conventioneers, mainly &#8212; would unknowingly foot the bill through yet another increase in sales taxes on the Strip, raising them to some of the highest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal is crafted in such a way that only the Harrah&#8217;s site would qualify, leaving other aspirants (such as <strong>Paul &amp; Sue Lowden<\/strong>) on the outside, looking in. The 2011 Legislature could simply rubber-stamp this juice job. Considering that you and I are expected to help pay for it, lawmakers should at least have the stones to put on the 2012 electoral ballot so voters can decide whether it&#8217;s a pig in a poke or a wise investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrah&#8217;s Entertainment and the AFL-CIO have collected the requisite 20,000 signatures to place its request for a publicly funded stadium out back of Imperial Palace (currently a vast, dark wasteland) before Nevada solons. CEO Gary Loveman would throw in some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/juice-job-of-2011\/\">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":[46,14,26,7,33,74,31,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098"}],"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=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}