2024
The Best Places To Retire Abroad in 2024 (Ideas if you’re fed up with high living expenses and toxic politics), Forbes.com, July 26, 2024.
Is ex-Las Vegas sheriff–now Governor–Joe Lombardo “Donor A” in alleged fallen-cop fundraising scam? (Evidence suggests fellow Republican politician Michele Fiore used the money for personal purposes), NewToLasVegas.com, July 17, 2024.
How extreme heat made Las Vegas, again (Air conditioning turned terrible weather into another tourist attraction), NewToLasVegas.com, July 4, 2024.
Corporately, Las Vegas and Nevada again seek a race to the bottom (Business laws make it easier for officers and directors to screw shareholders), NewToLasVegas.com, July 3, 2024.
SCOTUS to Las Vegas: Drop Dead (High Court sees no reason to stop another massacre like the October 1, 2017, tragedy that killed 60 folks on the Las Vegas Strip), NewToLasVegas.com, June 14, 2024.
In Las Vegas, a faux firefighter charity mails an illegal solicitation–to a dog (Evidence is laid out against National Committee for Volunteer Firefighters PAC), NewToLasVegas.com, June 11, 2024.
Las Vegas send out multiple mail ballots to folks–including me (Clark County Election Department hasn’t publicly admitted its error amid absentee ballot furor), NewToLasVegas.com, May 28, 2024.
Far from Las Vegas: Satirical deletions before new SCOTUS ethics code (updated) (Certain specifics presented uncomfortable truths, especially with regard to flags), NewToLasVegas.com, May 26, 2024.
Another faux charity cop outfit solicits illegally in Las Vegas(American Police Officers Coalition PAC, part of American Coalition for Police and Sheriff’s PAC, spent nothing on the stated mission), NewToLasVegas.com, May 22, 2024.
How Las Vegas is different: Exit now for what?(Cheeky billboard for topless strip club brags about ruining marriages), NewToLasVegas.com, May 14, 2024.
Best Places To Retire In 2024 (Las Cruces and other unexpected hot spots), Forbes.com, May 10, 2024.
Stormy, Trump, the thwack heard ’round the world–and me in Las Vegas (Turns out a 2006 Forbes issue I tried to sell for big bucks on Ebay wasn’t used to spank the future president), NewToLasVegas.com, May 8, 2024.
Story about Las Vegas written by far-away reporters wins Pulitzer Prize (Reuters described a sleazy local office serving Elon Musk ), NewToLasVegas.com, May 6, 2024.
John C. Frémont’s one-night stand in Las Vegas–180 years ago this week (The military adventurer and war criminal disparaged local Indians and got a good bath), NewToLasVegas.com, April 30, 2024
Ex-soldiers cause trolls Las Vegas but spends $0 on stated mission A faux charity, National Coalition for Disabled Veterans PAC in its entire existence hasn’t disbursed even a penny helping its supposed beneficiaries), NewToLasVegas.com, April 23, 2024.
Las Vegas utility controlled by Warren Buffett falsely touts free service (NVEnergy no longer offers a free program to calibrate pool pumps to save electricity), NewToLasVegas.com,April 13, 2024.
How to stop red-light runners in Las Vegas: Put ’em on TV (Turn those dangerous traffic violators into a reality show), NewToLasVegas.com, April 4, 2024.
New filing of cancer faux charity pitching Las Vegas shows 0% spent fighting cancer (American Breast Cancer Coalition PAC is up to its old tricks), NewToLasVegas.com, March 23, 2024.
Sad Bank of America facility in Las Vegas needs Vanna White (Lights out on signage at E. Flamingo Rd. location), NewToLasVegas.com, March 18, 2024.
It Didn’t Stay Here: New Las Vegas photos of Prince Harry in the buff? (Threatened release dates back to 2012 incident in Wynn Las Vegas), NewToLasVegas.com, March 17, 2024.
Now the whole world knows about Las Vegas and its scorpions (Tourist’s account of getting stung in Strip hotel gets wide attention), NewToLasVegas.com, March 8, 2024.
Faux cop charity soliciting in Las Vegas flouts IRS, Nevada regulators (Perp is POSC PAC, operating as Police Officers Support Committee PAC or National Police Officers Alliance PAC), NewToLasVegas.com, March 4, 2024.
Worthy Las Vegas fallen-cop charity boosts transparency, showing better financial efficiency (Injured Police Officers Fund changes disclosures after hectoring by this blog), NewToLasVegas.com, February 19, 2024.
My day at Valley of Fire State Park near Las Vegas during Super Bowl LVIII (Beauty and lack of cell phone service added to the natural, non-artificial experience), NewToLasVegas.com, February 14, 2024.
Super Bowl LVIII sponsor NFL and Las Vegas share big health care woes (League and Nevada poorly serve their constituencies), NewToLasVegas.com, February 9, 2024.
This week in Nevada: Super Bowl LVIII, centennial of world’s first gas-chamber execution (Case in 1924 involved Gee Jon, a Chinese national caught up in gang wars), NewToLasVegas.com, February 7, 2024.
Near Super Bowl LVIII, a posted sign shows why Las Vegas is, uh, different (Recycling firm has to post notice that “stolen items” aren’t accepted), NewToLasVegas.com, January 30, 2024.
New history of American Mafia deals a little with Las Vegas (But Borgata, Rise of Empire, by Louis Ferrante, turns some phrases), NewToLasVegas.com, January 16, 2024.