{"id":749,"date":"2008-08-04T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/8\/4\/Man-Bites-Dog-Dept"},"modified":"2020-04-09T06:57:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T14:57:39","slug":"man-bites-dog-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/man-bites-dog-dept\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Bites Dog Dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican senator running for reelection on the strength of his good relationship with &#8230; Sen. <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>?!? Between that and the strong possibility that Sen. <strong>John McCain<\/strong> could win the presidency and yet see the national GOP sustain tremendous losses, it&#8217;s the topsy-turviest election year I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Silliest Echelon Objection Yet<\/strong>. While <strong>Boyd Gaming<\/strong>&#8216;s decision to mothball <strong>Echelon<\/strong> for a year has played to across-the-board raves in the financial community, not <em>everyone<\/em> agrees. A <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121760125032804685.html?mod=yahoo_hs&amp;ru=yahoo\">union exec pouts<\/a> that the unfinished project will be an &#8220;eyesore&#8221; that will affront the delicate sensibilities of visitors. (Having 800 of his men suddenly idled surely plays more than a peripheral role in Mr. Ross&#8217; sudden concern for aesthetics.) Heck, there are several eyesores along the Strip already &#8212; and they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/7\/29\/Were-no-Pyongyang\">open for business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> An analyst for <strong>BMO Capital Markets<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/080801\/boyd_gaming_morgans_hotel_development_delay.html?.v=2\">seconds<\/a> the &#8220;eyesore&#8221; sentiment regarding Echelon, adding &#8220;embarrassment&#8221; for good measure. But his overall verdict can be summed up as, Better a loss of dignity now than a loss of money further down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican senator running for reelection on the strength of his good relationship with &#8230; Sen. Barack Obama?!? Between that and the strong possibility that Sen. John McCain could win the presidency and yet see the national GOP sustain tremendous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/man-bites-dog-dept\/\">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":[60,26,33,9,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26697,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}