{"id":948,"date":"2008-02-13T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/2\/13\/Another-Baton-Rouge-bulletin"},"modified":"2018-05-18T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T19:35:14","slug":"another-baton-rouge-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/another-baton-rouge-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Baton Rouge bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Columbia Sussex<\/b>&#8216;s mooted flip-flop of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiasussex.com\/cscdetail.lasso?property=103\" class=\"broken_link\">Belle of Baton Rouge<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbiasussex.com\/cscdetail.lasso?property=884\" class=\"broken_link\">Amelia Belle<\/a> riverboats turns out not to have been a snap decision in the wake of a pro-<b>Pinnacle Entertainment<\/b> vote in Baton Rouge. Seems that the company has been <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/apwire\/460c8cd7df1fbaf51e75e4b538a8133b.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">laying the groundwork for two months<\/a> now. Both St. Mary Parish and Louisiana regulators still have to sign off on the switch, which will also require some retrofitting of the <i>Amelia Belle<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Although the <i>Belle of Baton Rouge<\/i> will be moving to a smaller market, Columbia Sussex promises city fathers in &#8220;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\">the Morgan City area that employment will not be changed much with the boat switch.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now where have we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinecasinoadvisory.com\/casino-news\/land\/yung-wants-kentucky-casino-1462.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">heard that before<\/a>? Oh yeah: Evansville, Atlantic City, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Las Vegas &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And although <b>William Yung III<\/b>&#8216;s $7 million investment in a possible casino site in Covington, Ken., may seem like betting on the Raiders to win the next Super Bowl, when you&#8217;ve spent billions to acquire <b>Aztar Corp.<\/b>, seven mil is just walking-around money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia Sussex&#8216;s mooted flip-flop of its Belle of Baton Rouge and Amelia Belle riverboats turns out not to have been a snap decision in the wake of a pro-Pinnacle Entertainment vote in Baton Rouge. Seems that the company has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/another-baton-rouge-bulletin\/\">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":[15,84,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21721,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/21721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}