Las Vegas Sun

August 30, 2008

Ed Koch

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Sister of Sun founder a hat designer, singer, philanthropist, dynamo
Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008
When Alice Goldberg came to work as a receptionist and operator for the Las Vegas Sun in 1955, the feisty transplanted New Yorker saw her duties as much more than greeting customers and answering phones.
His was the influence that backed Hughes’ cash
Former spy brokered big deals that led to mob’s exit
Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008
On his deathbed, Robert Maheu reminisced with his longtime friend Gordie Margulis about several moments in his life, but perhaps none as poignant as what happened on April 16, 1961, the night before the doomed invasion of Cuba.
Vegas TV pioneer, newsman, historian Stoldal retiring
Dedication to accuracy will keep him busy correcting government Web sites
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Bob Stoldal, top news executive for KLAS-TV Channel 8, is retiring from the station June 30 after 36 years there. But he’s not retiring from facts. He’s launching a crusade to go after one of the big producers of Web site inaccuracies: the U.S. government.
How Vegas became a city like no other
Mix mobsters, visionaries and stars with desert, add decades
Sunday, May 18, 2008
For what was for so long a small town, Las Vegas always has been about big things. The gangsters and the gaming pioneers were larger than life. The entertainers were the biggest and the brightest of stars. Even the bombs were huge, as towering mushroom clouds from aboveground atomic testing in the 1950s were as iconic as the flickering neon and the stretch of skyscraper resorts that would become the signatures of this desert oasis.
The mob's man in Vegas
'Bugsy' Siegel left his mark and myth in Sin City
Thursday, May 15, 2008
In builder Del Webb’s storied career, he was never more nervous than when he was general contractor for the construction of the Flamingo Hotel.
Showtime: How Sin City evolved into 'The Entertainment Capital of the World'
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Before central air conditioning and eye-catching neon lights, the Las Vegas Strip entertainment scene started in the western-themed El Rancho Vegas, a motor lodge located on Highway 91.
Bill that transformed a city
Thursday, May 15, 2008

The Wide Open Gambling Bill of 1931 was the cornerstone on which Las Vegas’ economy was built.

Conscience of the community
Sun founder Hank Greenspun fought for little guy; left lasting legacy
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Where in the world was Hank Greenspun?
Mr. Las Vegas owned the Strip
Wayne Newton will go down as entertainer, but also owned the Aladdin
Thursday, May 15, 2008

In 1980, Wayne Newton, affectionately known as “Mr. Las Vegas,” got a taste of what Frank Sinatra had experienced for much of his life — accusations of mob association.

Mob Ties
Thursday, May 15, 2008
They were law enforcement’s pests and the casino industry’s parasites, arriving in Las Vegas as the feds cracked down on gambling coast to coast. They were the mob — gangsters, hoodlums, thieves, small men — Las Vegas’ founding fathers. Their influence locally lasted about half a century, although their impact on those formative years will forever be threaded into the tapestry of Las Vegas’ lore and history.

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