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Las Vegas-area drivers are far worse than the national average
Allstate Insurance is out with its latest annual rankings of the nation’s 200 most populous cities with the best and worse drivers. It’s not good news for the Las Vegas area. The giant insurer...
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It Didn’t Stay Here: New Haven embezzlement, then Las Vegas spending
Thomas Malone (via LinkedIn) Thomas Malone of New Haven, Conn. just started serving a two-year federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to embezzling a tad over $1 million from a biotech company...
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Las Vegas hearse in HOV lane with dead body gets insane media pickup
Here’s more proof the famous Las Vegas marketing phrase “What Happens Here, Stays Here” is a bald-faced lie. News, first broken two days ago by local media, that the Nevada Highway Patrol stopped a...
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Poorly rated child illness charity is back trolling in Las Vegas
In April, when I was called at the New To Las Vegas world headquarters by the Childhood Leukemia Foundation of Brick, N.J., the name of the caller asking for money was Grace Miller. When I was called...
View ArticleNow it’s Las Vegas grasshoppers getting ridiculous media attention
About a year ago, the folks around Winnemucca, a city of 7,400 in northern Nevada near the Oregon line, had an invasion of Mormon crickets. The ugly creatures were swarming everywhere, coating...
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Las Vegas Sun versus Las Vegas Review-Journal: Two scorpions battle in a...
Readers of the Las Vegas Review-Journal opened their paper a week ago on August 30 to see this prominent headline in the lead upper-right corner of the front page: “Why we want to stop printing the...
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It Didn’t Stay Here: Las Vegas aloha to union money allegedly stolen in Hawaii
Brian Ahakuelo Hawaiians call Las Vegas their “ninth island” because they love to visit, gamble and, thanks to the lower cost of living, even live here. By one account, every year 10% of all Hawaiians...
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Battling Las Vegas newspaper scorpions sink 11% in one year
Updated on September 29, 2019. See end of post. Amid a continuing lawsuit over–what else?–money, the two daily newspapers in Las Vegas, which are distributed together, saw their average print...
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In Las Vegas, no honor among newspaper co-monopolists
Imagine two thieves who, after a heist, can’t agree on the division of spoils, and one of them actually sues the other in court. Outrageous, eh? That’s sort of how I see the newest lawsuit brought by...
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In Las Vegas, Forbes 400 roster declines again
This morning, the 38th edition of the Forbes 400, the famous annual ranking of the richest Americans, was released, and again it was bad news for the Las Vegas area. Of the seven locals on last year’s...
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It Didn’t Stay Here: NY indictment for Las Vegas meeting
OMG, is this juicy! The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan this morning announced an indictment of four men–including three born in the lands of the former Soviet Union–on campaign finance charges involving...
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Thoughts on Las Vegas and ‘View of the World from 9th Avenue’
On a wall at the New To Las Vegas world headquarters is a blown-up replica of arguably the most famous magazine cover ever. “View of the World from 9th Avenue” by illustrator Saul Steinberg, graced the...
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Seriously iffy veterans outfit trolls in Las Vegas
At the New To Las Vegas world headquarters recently, I received a telephone cold call from one Bob Malone. He was calling on behalf of American Coalition for Injured Veterans PAC. “Our vets desperately...
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Another PAC posing as a charity plagues Las Vegas
Readers of my last post will find this one very familiar. At the New To Las Vegas world headquarters recently, I received a telephone cold call from someone calling herself Christine soliciting in the...
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Dueling newspaper stories prove worth of Las Vegas JOA
Need evidence the news-consuming public needs more than one source to help sort out the truth in a given contentious matter? Look no further than the December 5 editions of Las Vegas’s two...
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Las Vegas injured-cop charity still spends way more on overhead than police
Once again, the less-than-transparent Injured Police Officers Fund spent far more on overhead than the charity’s sole stated mission of aiding southern Nevada law enforcement families in the event of...
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It Didn’t Stay Here: East Coast municipal manager allegedly used stolen loot...
Lisa M. Moore (courtesy Chester County PA District Attorney’s Office) Ah, the lure of Las Vegas. The gambling. The entertainment. The allegedly embezzled loot. The latest...
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Police-themed cause still hosing folks in Las Vegas
The previous telephone call to the New To Las Vegas world headquarters came from Eddie. The latest a few days ago came from Andrew. But the message was the same. Police Officers Support Association,...
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New book paints namesake of Fremont Street in Las Vegas as the war criminal...
John C. Frémont Readers of my blogs know well my view of John C. Frémont. He’s the 19th century military adventurer and politician for whom Fremont Street in Las Vegas is named, as well as a great...
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Las Vegas finally changes famous slogan, confirming role as bug light for...
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority finally has gotten rid of the catchy, wildly successful marketing slogan that made up in cheekiness what it lacked in truth. I am referring, of course,...
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