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June 18, 2013

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Experience wins out over price in selection of jails' food vendor
June 18, 2013
Competition and controversy were on the menu Tuesday when Clark County commissioners awarded a lucrative contract to provide meals at two of its jails to a more experienced – but more expensive – company.

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Abby Lung, 6, and her mother Alicia, both of Las Vegas, ride the Zip Zap Zoom water slide during the first day of general admission at Wet'n'Wild Las Vegas on Monday, June 3, 2013.
Water park extends hours, offers twilight tickets
June 18, 2013
Wet ‘n’ Wild Las Vegas has extended its operating hours. Beginning this Friday and Saturday, and every Friday and Saturday thereafter, the park will open at 10 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. The park previously closed at 8 p.m. on those nights.
Waiting for word from Bernanke, stocks move higher
June 18, 2013
It's all about the Fed. Still. U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday, helped by news of a pickup in home building and low inflation. But the Federal Reserve loomed large, with investors trying to guess what the central bank will say Wednesday about how long it plans to keep stimulus programs in place. For many, Tuesday was just a holding pattern as they waited for Wednesday's announcement.
Jason Bentley is back as host and co-curator of the second annual EDMbiz conference, part of Insomniac’s EDC Week.
The tastemaker: EDMbiz host Jason Bentley breaks down EDC Week’s unifying groove
June 18, 2013
Bentley has made separate careers of music supervision for film and advertising, as well as DJing nightclubs and music festivals.
New Las Vegas Strip arena to cost $350 million
June 18, 2013
AEG and MGM Resorts International have ironed out the details of a deal to build a $350 million arena behind the Monte Carlo and New York-New York resorts. The 20,000-seat arena will stretch from Las Vegas Boulevard to Frank Sinatra Drive.
US Thrill Rides LLC filed an application in April with the Federal Aviation Administration to build a 650-foot-tall observation deck and roller coaster called the Polercoaster.
Move over, NY-NY Roller Coaster: Another roller coaster - the Polercoaster - is proposed for the Strip
June 18, 2013
A Florida roller coaster company wants to build a towering roller coaster in Las Vegas, but the project has a long way to go before becoming a reality. US Thrill Rides LLC filed an application in April with the Federal Aviation Administration to build a 650-foot-tall observation deck and roller coaster called the Polercoaster. The FAA is reviewing the application, agency spokesman Ian Gregor said.
The "X" Train by Las Vegas Railway Express.
Company preparing to sell tickets for Las Vegas party train
June 18, 2013
A company developing a casino party train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas will launch a travel booking operation next month to sell tickets.
Principles are worth the time, cost it takes to wage the fight
June 18, 2013
Where’s my lawyer? It turns out that my dear friend Larry Ruvo and I share the same lawyer. Normally, that wouldn’t cause a problem because one thing we learn in law school — yes, I did that a lifetime ago — is to multitask.

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An illustration of a two-faced statue. (Marko Ilic/The New York Times)
Were philanthropist's good deeds financed by his bad deeds?
June 18, 2013
The morning after a catastrophic earthquake leveled buildings and killed thousands of people in Haiti in 2010, an Internet marketing millionaire from St. George, Utah, named Jeremy Johnson decided to cancel all his business meetings and arrange his own ad hoc aid mission. But what Johnson had to give — and it was quite a bit — may have come from consumers who got taken. The Federal Trade Commission says Johnson was “the mastermind” behind one of the largest and most intricate online marketing frauds ever perpetrated in the United States.

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The Gateway Arch overlooks the Mississippi River and downtown St. Louis, Mo., on Aug. 20, 2010.
Sin City? Blog says the title rightfully belongs to St. Louis, not Las Vegas
June 18, 2013
Las Vegas newbies often call this neon paradise by its clichéd nickname. But how does Sin City stack up against debauchery in other major cities?

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On tap for LV council: Olympic Garden rooftop pool, new retail near Mob Museum and energy codes
On tap for LV council: Olympic Garden rooftop pool, new retail near Mob Museum and energy codes
June 18, 2013
A months-long debate about how to balance business development with sustainability could come to an end Wednesday when the Las Vegas City Council considers a bill that would loosen energy efficiency standards for older buildings.

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Yucca Mountain is located about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
GOP bill would feed new funding to stalled Yucca Mountain project
June 17, 2013
The annual federal fiscal fight over Yucca Mountain is on once again, now that House Republicans have released their annual appropriations proposal for fiscal 2014.

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After decade on job, Nevada parks director set to retire
June 17, 2013
David Morrow, administrator of the state Division of Parks for the past 10 years, is retiring and he jokes it's because of "old age."
Submitting building plans now just a mouse click away
June 17, 2013
Submitting land-use applications and plans for residential and commercial projects in Las Vegas has been made as easy as clicking a button, thanks to a new online system unveiled Monday.
A detail shot of the mural painted by Zio Ziegler, a San Francisco-based artist, on the back wall of the Western hotel.
Joe Downtown: Muralist completes touchup on shuttered Western hotel
June 17, 2013
For a building that will be near the center of a 15-block festival of life’s beauty, the Western Hotel, something of an eyesore even when it was operational, seems somewhat out of place.

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