Sunday Conversations
- Making sense of gaming's big crash
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Sun, Aug 9, 2009
By Liz Benston
Imagine that you’re a retired gaming executive and you’re watching the industry crash all around you, in the biggest recession in the modern casino era. You take a deep breath, ...
- What it means, what comes next
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Sun, Nov 9, 2008
Five political consultants gathered four months ago at the Three Angry Wives pub in Summerlin to spend nearly two hours discussing one election.
- Signs are dim, but is Vegas’ future?
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Sun, Aug 3, 2008
By Sam Skolnik
For those of us who thought we lived in Boomtown U.S.A., the dramatic downshift in the economy has been unsettling at the least, jarring for many. On Friday, Boyd Gaming ...
- Trying to script a solution
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Sun, Jul 13, 2008
By Marshall Allen
Sunday Conversation: Experts blame Nevada’s skyrocketing rate of prescription narcotic use on hurried doctors who don’t adequately examine the patient’s history and source of pain, leading to inadequate treatment and ...
- For the long term, there’s optimism about sports arena
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Sun, Jun 22, 2008
By Ron Kantowski, Joe Schoenmann
Last summer, two groups were rushing to be first to build a Las Vegas arena.
- Their plans to cope with budget squeeze
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Sun, May 25, 2008
By David McGrath Schwartz
What’s worse than knowing that the party is over? Waking up with a hangover when you didn’t even go to no stinkin’ party. That’s how Nevada legislators feel these days. ...
- A coal-fired discussion
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Sun, May 4, 2008
By Phoebe Sweet
Proposals to build coal-fired power plants have brought the debate over global climate change home to Nevadans. Coal provides half the nation’s electricity, and a fifth of Nevada’s power, but ...
- Voices of reason for health care crisis
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Sun, Mar 16, 2008
By David McGrath Schwartz
In the midst of the largest hepatitis C scare in the nation’s history, many Nevadans have lost confidence in their health care providers. About 40,000 people have been told they ...
- Lead us out of this mess
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Sun, Jan 13, 2008
Las Vegas Sun
Four former Nevada governors came together last week at the Sun’s invitation to reflect on Nevada’s future and offer advice to the state’s citizens and elected officials. To a man, ...
- Getting past the crises
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Sun, Dec 16, 2007
The stresses facing the state are obvious to anyone who relies on public services. Public schools are chronically crowded and Nevada's universities struggle to achieve academic greatness. Highways are congested ...
- Brass tacks: Looking for someone to tax
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Sun, Oct 14, 2007
By David McGrath Schwartz
Teachers want to raise the gaming tax by 3 percentage points, triggering a fight that could change the way public services are funded.
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