A billboard that recently appeared on I-I5 north advertising the LDS Music Festival December 4: Two wholesome, missionary-looking boys stand there, with a cartoon bubble coming from one of their mouths: "This ain't no fireside."
Get down, funky churchboy, get down!
Sunday's Napa Valley Register reveals a split in the body gaming that threatens ... well, nothing, at the moment. Associated Press writer Matthew Goldman a tiff between locals gambling operators and Strip bigwigs over check- cashing in casinos.
Some Stripsters don't like it—Harrah's Entertainment, for example. Arguing for it are companies like Boyd Gaming—spokesman Robert Stillwell calling check-cashing a promotional perk—and Stations, which objected to an American Gaming Association push to include check-cashing provisions in its new code of conduct, arguing that prohibition should extend across the board. The story quotes clinical psychologist Rob Hunter, who runs the Problem Gambling Center in Las Vegas, on check-cashing increasing the temptation to gamble; and Nevada Gaming Control Board member Scott Scherer, who said he's "opposed to this, but I'm open to listening ... Do we want to allow this one step further — gambling away money you haven't earned?"
An April Miami Herald story noting an increase of gastrointestinal illnesses in the hotel industry is proving prescient.
A month before the story, The California received 1,660 complaints of gastrointestinal illness between December and April, prompting investigation by fthe federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Recently, more than 1,000 Flamingo hotel guests were afficted with norovirus, including one couple who is suing the parent company, Caesars Entertainment.
Cruise ships have battled viral outbreaks for some time, and have implemented combative measures such as stringent cleaning of objects and surfaces that undergo human contact. The casino industry is purportedly following suit.
"Monorail officials ... are now awaiting a study from Exponent Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., a disaster analysis firm retained to scrutinize the inquiry. ... Exponent was hired in late September. Its resume includes investigations of the bombing of Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and its past and current clients include NASA and the U.S. Army."
Earlier this week, after rain washed out and muddied up several streets already disrupted by ongoing construction in the Southwest corner of town—most inconveniently, Jones and Rainbow, from Robindale to I-215—crews cordoned off the areas and diverted traffic so bulldozers could make the gunk-clogged arteries maneuverable again. But morning drivers in that budding neighborhood, not yet accustomed to the commuter ritual of riding the brake, were having none of it. Several removed the offending Mylar traffic cones or just barreled on through the lumpy, bumpy glop, extending the cleanup inconvenience for the rest of us..