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Minor Party Angle’s Major Influence
A look at what the candidate for U.S. Senate stood for before she was a Republican
The Independent American Party of Nevada, for which Sharron Angle once campaigned, believes that Jesus Christ is mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
Read More »Selling luxury in the Great Recession
The laws of supply and demand aren’t sentimental, particularly when it comes to hotel rooms. No matter what kind of rate a suite might have gotten in the past, when there are more beds than bodies to fill them, the room rate will go down. But when running a luxury property, there are concerns beyond just filling rooms tonight: Long-term position of the hotel’s “brand” can make price-cutting a double-edged sword.
Read More »Building Boomlet
Habitat for Humanity finds opportunity in economic downturn
If there is a silver lining to Southern Nevada’s real estate collapse, Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas has found it. The nonprofit, which works with volunteers to build and sell affordable housing, hopes to build 45 homes over the next three years. That’s more than double what it’s built in the last three years.
Read More »Odd City Out
Housing improves elsewhere, but not in Las Vegas
It’s not news that housing prices are down in Las Vegas. But adding insult to injury are new reports showing that while other cities are inching toward recovery, we’re not.
Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Indices of 20 U.S. cities was published July 27, and it showed small home-value increases in 19 of the 20 cities sampled for May compared to April, and also compared with May 2009.
Read More »How dinner with Horsford resulted in a sour taste
These days, whenever Richard Hofstadter comes up, it’s almost always in connection with “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” (Harper’s, 1964), the title essay in his collection that helps explain the idiots who cannot accept that President Obama was born in the United States, is a Christian, is not a Marxist and does not plan to place right-wingers in concentration camps.
Read More »The Trouble With Cashman Field
It may be old, but it’s all we’ve got. And it’s not going away
There’s been a lot of speculation about the future of professional baseball in Las Vegas. Mayor Oscar Goodman has come out this month and said that a major league team is looking at the city, and the 51s’ player development contract with the Toronto Blue Jays expires next month, although the parties seem likely to renew their partnership through 2012.
Regardless of those developments, this is certain: No matter which team is playing here in the next few years, it will be housed at Cashman Field.
Read More »Silence Is Golden
Why the NRA isn’t attacking Harry Reid
When you call the National Rifle Association’s toll-free member hotline, this is what you’re greeted with: “To hear NRA’s statement about rumors regarding Sen. Harry Reid, please press one now.” Ever since the idea that the powerful Second Amendment advocacy group might endorse the Democratic Senate majority leader began making the rounds of conservative blogs last month, the NRA has been fielding scores of irate calls and e-mails.
Read More »Casinos now playing Facebook games
Casinos in Las Vegas have been marketing through social media for some time now, mostly via Facebook and Twitter. Recently, however, two Las Vegas-based casino companies have taken their investment in social media to another level with Facebook applications.
Facebook allows third-party developers to create applications, or apps, that users can access through their Facebook pages. Social games are some of the most popular apps available. Unlike sites that offer play-for-free (or play-for-cash), these games require no download and can be played in a standard Web browser. By definition, they allow players to invite friends to join games and compete in friendly competitions.
Read More »Why go to Japan to see kabuki?
Besides teaching at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, Eric Alterman writes columns for numerous publications tilting leftward. Recently, he wrote “Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now,” at TheNation.com.
“The piece came from a feeling I had that every time a problem cropped up, the media discourse treated it as a brand-new notion,” Alterman wrote to me, “rather than something that could have been predicted given the way the system was structured. I had this feeling over and over, and decided it would be worthwhile to delineate them.”
Read More »Is Sandoval Losing Hispanic Voters?
Some supporters think the gubernatorial hopeful is taking them for granted
Hispanic voters wanted to love Brian Sandoval, the Republican who would be the state’s first Hispanic governor. But it’s starting to seem like he’s doing his best to turn them off.
This was vividly illustrated by the recent controversy over a stunningly insensitive remark Sandoval supposedly made at the Univision television studio. It’s not at all clear whether Sandoval actually uttered the comment in question, but the accusation has reverberated widely in Nevada’s Hispanic community.
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