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Scott PowersSeptember 18, 2018

Brightline, the operator of the private passenger train service in South Florida with approval for high-speed trains into Orlando and longer-term vision to Tampa, announced Tuesday it is buying the project of a proposed high-speed train to link Las Vegas and Southern California. Brightline, long known as All Aboard Florida, announced Tuesday it has reached […]

Peter SchorschFebruary 15, 2018

Immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hollywood, reluctant to exploit terrorism plot lines, postponed the Arnold Schwarzenegger film “Collateral Damage” because it featured Colombian terrorists bent on attacking the U.S. A 2015 film about Islamic terrorists determined to attack Paris was shelved after shooters and suicide bombers targeted a concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars, […]

Scott PowersOctober 4, 2017

Saying, “they are for killing,” Florida’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson sponsored a bill Wednesday to ban so-called “bump stocks” like the ones Las Vegas police say Stephen Paddock used in his deadly slaughter Sunday night in Las Vegas. “I’m a hunter and have owned guns my whole life,” Nelson stated in a news release. “But […]

Associated PressOctober 2, 2017

Officials at a remote Nevada prison where O.J. Simpson was set free early Sunday after nine years for armed robbery arranged the former football and Hollywood star’s dead-of-night departure to avoid public scrutiny. It worked. Simpson signed release paperwork just before midnight and disappeared into the darkness minutes into the first day he was eligible […]

Associated PressOctober 1, 2017

A Nevada parole official said O.J. Simpson plans to live at a home in the Las Vegas area for the foreseeable future. State Parole and Probation Capt. Shawn Arruti told The Associated Press on Sunday that the former football hero and celebrity criminal defendant has one approved residential plan, and it doesn’t currently include a move […]

Jim RosicaJuly 17, 2017

A Tallahassee attorney who fronted “large sums of money” to a professional poker player is suing after the player lost over $22,000 of that bankroll in unauthorized side gambling, according to a lawsuit filed last week. Hal Lewis is a name partner in the Fonvielle Lewis Messer & McConnaughhay personal-injury law firm and a poker […]

Guest AuthorMarch 6, 2017

There are two things we can count on in Florida. In any given body of water, eventually the alligators will show up. And in any given meeting of the Florida Legislature, the same applies to gambling lobbyists. Feed either and they only become more insatiable. With regard to the gambling interests, unfortunately, the Florida Senate […]

Peter SchorschOctober 20, 2016

About 30 minutes into Wednesday’s presidential debate, Donald Trump was doing well. He was making points that were rational to both his point of view and that of millions of Americans. I thought his supporters would love his strong answer on abortion, for instance. “I am putting pro-life justices on the (Supreme) court,” Trump said. “I will […]

Associated PressOctober 19, 2016

Hours before Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump meet for their third and final presidential debate, it was anything but quiet outside the Thomas & Mack Arena on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas. Media members, marching bands and supporters of all stripes assembled under sunny skies on the campus not far from the […]

Scott PowersSeptember 19, 2016

Las Vegas and Orlando. Orlando and Vegas. If you live in one, you know the rivalry and the snarkish back-and-forth putdowns. But when you set aside the casinos, theme parks, and Asian buffet restaurants there still seems to be enough there to rank both among the nation’s most fun cities, according to a new list. […]

Tag: Las Vegas

Brightline buying Las Vegas-California high-speed train project

Mr. Speaker, take down that ad

Bill Nelson sponsors bill to ban bump stocks for assault weapons

O.J. Simpson freed from prison. Right now, he’s staying near Vegas but will he return to Florida?

Parole official: O.J. Simpson will live in Vegas area

‘Busted’: Lawyer, poker player at odds over ‘staking’ deal

John Sowinski: Finally, a sensible gambling plan for Florida’s future

Joe Henderson: Can you say ‘Madam President’?

Outside debate arena, a buzz of activity by media, others

Orlando trails only Vegas in list of America’s most fun cities, but Cincy is 6th?