Articles by Cathy Thomas
In the years since he had employee Shelley Berkley escorted from the building after a high-profile falling out, Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has spent a fair amount …
Liberals have asserted on these pages that mandating health insurance is the same as mandating auto insurance.
The Nevada Taxation Department is going back to the drawing board to rework a regulation imposing a sales tax on complimentary meals that casinos give to players. The rewriting of the regulation won’t postpone the tax, which took effect Feb. 14 …
After spending months moving at a snail’s pace, Congress is fast approaching a final agreement on a highway bill.
“The cheeses here rival those at Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon .” – Max Jacobson (writing about the good-not-great selection of cheeses at Morels in SEVEN magazine) In any käse, to make up for taste …
According to internal memos, Caesars Entertainment is planning on imploding the O’Shea’s parking garage shortly after O’Shea’s closes on April 30th. The implosion is scheduled to take place between 1 and 2am on May 1, 2012. It looks like Caesars is going full…
Caesars Palace is running some new advertising on the basic cable. Fortunately for us, they put it up on the YouTube. Take a peep: My first impression is that the advertisement is clever, without being too clever…
Metro Police arrested a man accused of plotting to kill his wife and paying an undercover officer $2,000 to do the job as his 32nd birthday gift. Jorge Victorino-Vazquez, 32, of Las Vegas was arrested on charges of solicitation…
Members of Southwest Airlines’ Rapid Rewards loyalty program got a new benefit today — the ability to use their points on AirTran flights.
Two Clark County School District students were recently named among the 2012 National Merit Scholars, a prestigious honor bestowed to just 1,000 distinguished high school seniors across the nation each year. Last week, Northwest Career and Technical Academy senior Kevin Jia-Shi…
Opponents say a state ruling permitting nearly 84,000 acre-feet of water to be pumped from rural Nevada to Las Vegas will jeopardize ranching, farming, mining, recreational activities and even interfere with worship at burial and other sacred Indian sites
The movie “The Hangover” brought “wolf packs” of bachelor parties to Las Vegas in search of wildly epic ways to lose control (and, maybe their…

