2023
Ho, ho, ho! Faux charity with no track record is back illegally ringing a bell in Las Vegas(Police Officers Support Committee PAC, part of POSC PAC, wants your cash), NewToLasVegas.com, December 17, 2023.
Las Vegas predictions for 2024 (Mostly satirical crystal ball ponders futures of Musk, Trump, Hunter Biden, George Santos, Oscar Goodman and much more), NewToLasVegas.com, December 14, 2023.
America’s Top 100 Charities (Annual Forbes list includes lengthy profile of United Negro College Fund), Forbes.com, December 12, 2023.
It Didn’t Stay Here: George Santos allegedly spent campaign money on Las Vegas honeymoon (Detail comes from new House ethics report), NewToLasVegas.com, November 17, 2023.
Far from Las Vegas, satirical cuts before new SCOTUS ethics code (Certain specifics presented uncomfortable truths), NewToLasVegas.com, November 14, 2023.
In Las Vegas, cancer ‘faux charity’ trolling illegally spent 0% fighting cancer (Plus other things that American Breast Cancer Coalition PAC doesn’t tell would-be donors), NewToLasVegas.com, November 5, 2023.
Firefighter faux charity illegally soliciting in Las Vegas still spends nothing on stated mission (But National Committee for Volunteer Firefighters PAC likely won’t face heat from Nevada regulators), NewToLasVegas.com, October 18, 2023.
Has Las Vegas become the fraud capital of America? (Large number of cases by local perps enmeshes victims, many in far-flung places), NewToLasVegas.com, October 12, 2023.
Smaller Reno area matches Las Vegas for Forbes 400 members (But Nevada unemployment rates still tops country), NewToLasVegas.com, October 4, 2023.
Las Vegas Review-Journal paid print circulation drops another 12% in year(In a booming area fewer than 40,000 copies are sold daily),NewToLasVegas.com, September 25, 2023.
It Didn’t Stay Here: Flooding, casino hacks give Las Vegas a far-flung P.R. bashing (Recent travails generate more than 14 million Web hits around the world), NewToLasVegas.com, September 22, 2023.
25 Best Places To Enjoy Your Retirement In 2023: Traverse City And Other Hotspots (Top places for leisure pursuits,), Forbes.com, September 15, 2023.
With ‘Oppenheimer’ and radiation, Las Vegas stakes its claim to nuclear tourism (Sin City long has feasted on atomic bombs), NewToLasVegas.com, September 1, 2023.
It Didn’t Stay Here: Prosecutors in New York–not Nevada–indict Las Vegas faux charity fundraiser (Richard Zeitlin faces fraud charges for the way his outfit solicited would-be donors), NewToLasVegas.com, August 18, 2023.
New police-themed likely faux charity soliciting in Las Vegas is already being sued (Police Officers Support Committee PAC, part of POSC PAC, faces a Texas lawsuit over fundraising practices), NewToLasVegas.com, July 21, 2023.
How extreme heat helped make Las Vegas (Air conditioning turned extreme weather into another tourist attraction), NewToLasVegas.com, July 16, 2023.
RIP for a Las Vegas brain surgeon/pol who lived in his own ‘hoarders’ museum (Lonnie Hammargren, 85, had an interesting life), NewToLasVegas.com, July 10, 2023.
‘The Green Felt Jungle’–scandalous expose that utterly defined Las Vegas–turns 60 (Best-selling book by Ed Reid and Oval Demaris has stood the test of time), NewToLasVegas.com, June 16, 2023.
Nevada regulator MIA on every single illegal faux charity pitch in Las Vegas(Secretary of State’s Office admits it has taken no action despite new legal authority), NewToLasVegas.com, June 2, 2023.
Iffy police-themed PAC mocks regulators by soliciting illegally and lying in Las Vegas (American Police Officers Alliance falsely said it is a charity),NewToLasVegas.com, May 26, 2023.
Why did old story about Hawaiians moving to Las Vegas make New York Times front page? (Nevada city just seems to attract wide coverage), NewToLasVegas.com, May 22, 2023.
It Didn’t Stay Here: Seattle nonprofit official spent embezzled funds in Las Vegas (Susan Tantico lived well on stolen money), NewToLasVegas.com, May 21, 2023.
Does multi-billionaire deserve a huge public handout to move A’s to Las Vegas? (Oakland team owner John J. Fisher wants taxpayers to cover 25% of his proposed $1.5 billion baseball stadium), NewToLasVegas.com, May 18, 2023.
Best Places To Retire in 2023 (Pittsburgh and other affordable hot spots), Forbes.com, May 12, 2023.
A dodgy police-themed PAC is back illegally soliciting in Las Vegas (Using the name Police Officers Support Association, Law Enforcement for a Safer America PAC spends little on its stated mission and ignores Nevada law), NewToLasVegas.com, May 11, 2023.
Las Vegas odds; Joe Biden more likely to reach age 86 than Nikki Haley–or Donald Trump (Actuarial data doesn’t support claim president, 80, is ‘likely’ to die before end of a second term), NewToLasVegas.com, May 1, 2023.
Las Vegas killer gives Nevada Supreme Court second chance to make world history exactly a century later (In 1923 judges approved first-ever gas chamber execution), NewToLasVegas.com, April 14, 2023.
It isn’t news Las Vegas COVID-19 death rate was so high (This blog has been writing about that for years), NewToLasVegas.com, March 25, 2023.
It Didn’t Stay Here: Las Vegas angle to Trump’s New York legal woes (Civil lawsuit takes aim at Trump International Hotel Las Vegas), NewToLasVegas.com, March 17, 2023.
Not first time Las Vegas casino table game played on despite stricken patron (Recent incident recalls incident recounted in the 1963 book The Green Felt Jungle), NewToLasVegas.com, February 24, 2023.
Las Vegas health care woes make it apt venue for Super Bowl LVIII (Both do poorly by their constituencies), NewToLasVegas.com, February 18, 2023.
Las Vegas casinos get to bet after hand is over (Winning Nevada gubernatorial candidate raked in huge contributions after victory), NewToLasVegas.com, January 31, 2023.
Another cancer ‘faux charity’ solicits unregistered in Las Vegas (American Breast Cancer Coalition PAC spent nil on its stated mission), NewToLasVegas.com, January 19, 2023.
Capitalism in Las Vegas (Disabled homeless use a shuttered Bank of America branch for shelter), NewToLasVegas.com, January 17, 2023.
Publishers Clearing House teaches Las Vegas casinos something about odds (Magazine sweepstakes firm to make local award with stated odds far worse than the Strip), NewToLasVegas.com, January 11, 2023.
Not far from Las Vegas: Nothing (Uninhabited Arizona place has an interesting name and a hidden message), NewToLasVegas.com, January 9, 2023.