Republicans saw Ensign as their rising star. How far must one look to find some rising ethical and moral attributes able to withstand the strains inherent in public/political exposure? But there are no saints among us.

Something very sad happens when someone enters public life to any significant degree. Motivations, originally altruistic, become self-serving and moral parameters dissolve.

Even someone with a very strong sense of those values apparently succumbs to their own PR hand-outs, as the rules don't apply to them anymore.

Scandal disclosure always lets the rest of 'us' somehow feel better about ourselves simply because it wasn't 'us' who got caught.

This is wonderful news! After traveling to France on British Airways, I had several points of departure...none of which were my home town of Las Vegas! I left from L.A, CA. Let's see how it is to return home via no stopping-off point. To return home via Gatwick or Heathrow would solve so many needless problems; better yet, if I go directly from Barcelona to Las Vegas.

British Airways' service is wonderful; their staff is attentive and concerned - in short - a breath of fresh air.

The full-bed configuration of business class for trans-atlantic flights is SO well worth the cost that to consider anything else is nonsense; penny-wise and dollar foolish.

In British parlance; spot-on!!!!!!!

As a local who remembers Danny Gans' start at the Stratosphere with a $13.00 ticket to his meteoric rise in this city that can be so cynical, I wish peace to his family. What an utter shock. Just reiterates that no human being is promised another moment of life....

I am saddened by the loss of a spectacular talent and a huge contributor to our city. From out of town in Cessenon-sur-Orb, France.....

The whole world is talking about Danny Gans.

It will also be interesting to see how far the tax proposal gets on caffeine-containing products.

Gibbons' staff again wastes more time defending another illogical idea which wasn't even broached with the involved factions beforehand.

The conflict of interest would negate the minimal operational cost savings and if Gibbons didn't suffer from cranial rectalitis he would have realized it.

The Water Authority's (oxymoron) surreptitious buying of ranches (to then let them lay fallow) in outlying counties - not to mention crossing state lines - for the purpose of appropriating their water rights and pumping said liquid gold back to Las Vegas is a VERY contentious subject!

In Lincoln county alone, the practice has changed the whole complexion of once privately-held parcels, and all because of this outrageous concept. Who is Clark County to back-door an almost 'eminent domain' assertion when it comes to robbing other county's and jurisdiction's natural resources?

Water is not the property of any government entity, but belongs to the people who live on the land above it.

From the article:
"Forest City needs the P.R. firm because we're not talking about just a candidate who has no name recognition, but the city redevelopment agency's circular financing system, which most voters don't understand. So on top of arguing the merits of that system and the way Las Vegas has used it, the campaign will have to explain that system."
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"......which most voters don't understand." It's infuriating to have your intelligence insulted.
"Circular financing" means parties involved in various subsidiaries of a project trade monies and loans between the involved parties with the end result being greater control of the whole project (via the tangled, almost incestuous, financial machinations).

And THIS requires the hiring of a PR firm?

That's just business-as-usual in Las Vegas!

Gedoutaheaar!

Everyone is playing the "numbers game" but that doesn't account for the scores of people who rightly invested in a residence; not on speculation for profit, but for habitation, and who now face the loss of value on that investment. A recent story about appeals for re-evaluation of property taxes, some of which have been denied, are infuriating. Being 'underwater' on probably the largest personal investment puts everyone's financial situation in question.
It has been reported that there is no possibility of real estate 'recovering' to the level of the top of the bubble when many of the homes were purchased. So occupant-owners face the loss of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars that were based on a false valuation should they decide to sell. The local market is a poster-child for this.
Responsible homeowners who are current on their mortgages, even over-valued that they are, are the ones who are really getting the shaft if they cannot get the cost of those mortgages back into the realm of reality.

And, Mr. Perini, there are thousands of poor shmucks responding to the hundreds of ads hiring for the two hotels opening; especially the Aria in Dec 09. Not to mention reservation deposits already placed.

In this economy, either they don't have a job now or plan on quitting one they do have. There really is no guarantee these joints will open.

davidwayneosedo wrote:
"Who gets to pay for all this?"
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From the article:
"Construction is estimated at $52 million, according to Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada spokeswoman Tracy Bower. Federal and local funding contributed to the project."