James P. Reza
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Writer + Editor + Radio + TV | Contrib. @desertcompanion | #AskANative | #NonPartisan | Informed Dissenter | Cocktailist | #LasVegas Native | #UNLV PoliSci Alum
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I had drinks with a friend last night (one who would know), and he said that Las Vegas has only two true dive bars. Any guesses as to what they are?
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@DrLeanaWen
"You’re safe if you’re vaccinated and everybody around you is vaccinated," she said. "But if you are vaccinated and are around people who are unvaccinated, you should be keeping a mask on."
This is insanity.
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@marcorandazza
The big question is: How does someone who misrepresents themselves (ie, lies) to that degree get a job as a teacher? Everything else is secondary.
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@dieppe
@pennjillette
No libertarian would be supporting Newsom’s actions or behavior, regardless of party.
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@AlexBerenson
@CDCgov
Imagine if the focus would have been on hospitalizations and deaths (instead of cases) for the last 14 months.
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How long did some iconic Las Vegas casinos last?
Tropicana - 67 years
Riviera - 60 years
Stardust - 58 years
Frontier - 55 years
Desert Inn - 50 years
Sands - 44 years
Dunes - 38 years
Mirage - 34 years
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Las Vegas experienced a significant rebirth of cool from 1995-2008. The city was palpably electric in a way not felt in decades. Young visitors returned, people dressed up to go out, gaming floors were packed until the wee hours.
The Hard Rock started it, the recession ended it.
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@latimes
Good for them. I would never put employees in the position of having to enforce an unenforceable political mandate. It's dangerous, discriminatory, and absurd.
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@lenadunham
Cars kill more people annually than guns. This is about humanity, not politics. But thanks for making it about you.
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@AP
“The right to travel is a part of the ‘liberty’ of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. If that "liberty" is to be regulated, it must be pursuant to the law-making functions of the Congress...”
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Hot Vegas Take: Fontainebleau is going to destroy Resorts World, which will then be sold to Wynn Resorts and remade into a place people actually want to visit.
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@lavman72
@GeneLingerfelt
Where I live, the virus has agreed that as long as a microwaved Costco corn dog is on the bar table, it will not attack those drinking at that table.
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The person killed in the wrong-way crash on the 215 last week was the owner of Larry's Great Western Meats, my neighborhood butcher for almost my entire life.
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@nlw820
@lenadunham
What played the most important "role" is one person's insanity. Can't legislate that.
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@POTUS
Natural immunity is doing its job -- and the article (despite the subhead) makes it clear that not even a single dose is required for those who have had the virus.
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@ggreenwald
Similarly, the rapid shift in our social interactions and relationships as a result of social media is dangerously intensifying in ways that I believe are not adequately understood.
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@LeighWolf
Hopefully they just keep appearing and appearing and appearing and appearing … all over the country.
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@NextLAMayor
Las Vegas will take it! We have a beautiful new stadium! We are a bastion of freedom and individual righ… Oh, wait… Um.
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@the_nardling
@martiansunset
@NPR
I don't need a degree in Political Science to know public services can exist without socialism.
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@ChefGruel
Everyone who works for a living is essential, and government choosing winners and losers in wholly inappropriate.
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#JonBonJovi
sings "Hallelujah" in tribute to
#LeonardCohen
at the Hard Rock Las Vegas. Gorgeous moment.
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@katehouston_tv
@ClarkCountySch
@8NewsNow
Lowering standards is the easiest way to “improve performance.”
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@LisamonaNet
"The law" isn't legitimate only when things go your way. That isn't how it works.
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@NPR
AirBnB is a bad operator all around. STRs hurt neighborhoods and fly under regulation and taxation that hotels must abide by, and now this. As both a landlord and a tenant, in my experience leases protect both parties from one another.
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I’ve been out dining and cocktailing every night since Thursday, and maybe it’s just the places I choose to visit and spend my money, but — Wow!— does it feel normal out there. People are pushing us out of this, politicians be damned.
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Golden Steer contracted with YESCO to restore *all* of its exterior restaurant signage, as well as adding a "cocktails" flourish to one panel. The restoration is now complete, and I like that they are spending some money on the place. Too many classic restaurants wither.
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@JeffSchogol
This injection is not proving to be helpful, unless you happen to be on the side the $$$ is flowing to.
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@NPR
Insanity. This whole 16 months is a psychological trip through Lewis Carroll’s looking glass. I won’t be going backwards again.
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@VitalVegas
At this point it’s a moot annoyance at bars and restaurants; I literally walk in, sit down, take it off, don’t wear it for hours, then put it on for the 8-15 steps to the door. 🤷♂️
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I’ve been to
@CircaLasVegas
multiple times since they opened, and now I’m being told I have to do the mask up/mask down game while drinking a $15 drink *seated at the bar.* That is NOT the mandate, and it’s never been this way before here. Last time I’ll come here for a while.
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@realjakecobb
@JoeBiden
Tell me you have never seen an amortization schedule without telling me...
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@JDOT75851630
@DrLeanaWen
Everyone has been "back to life" for months. The virus gonna virus either way.
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@johnmdickinson
@SteveSchmidtSES
People who say this kind of thing have obviously never thought about its ramifications beyond COVID.
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I’m convinced that Las Vegans are a frail, whiny bunch. I visited three joints that are normally slammed last night. Absolute crickets. Why? People are afraid of “OH GOD THE RACE TRAFFIC.” /
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@MattRivett7
@ZubyMusic
Having the freedom to live without being controlled by unbridled authoritarianism ≠ unbridled libertarianism.
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Based on the "thresholds" Clark County may not "open bars" for weeks? Months? Years? It is time for Las Vegas, Clark County, and businesses to push back.
Cage, as he did last week, notes the task force has seen a lot of proposals to lift restrictions when they should be imposing additional restrictions. This model plan includes an example where a county could request to be able to open bars when they hit a particular threshold.
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@nytimes
"Breaking News: Over 100,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses as the lockdowns and authoritarian state spread..."
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Today is Day 645 of Nevada's State of Emergency as declared by the Governor. That State of Emergency is the only thing empowering him to issue executive mandates, essentially governing from the Governor's Mansion. The Nevada legislature is failing in its responsibility.
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@martiansunset
@NPR
That's one way to spin it, but I'm not interested in any kind of socialism -- democratic or not. No matter how you slice it, they remain a tiny minority.
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Scene from my fave Las Vegas bar:
“Dude, where are you from?”
“Here.”
“No, dude. Where are you FROM?”
“I was born in Las Vegas.”
“Nobody comes from Las Vegas.”
“My aunt was a cocktail waitress at this bar in the 80s.”
“Oh, bullshit, dude.”
Sigh.
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I can't say this enough: The
@ClarkCountyNV
Commission made a bad, divisive move yesterday. They voted -- unanimously! -- to rename Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport to Harry Reid International Airport.
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@GavinNewsom
From all the states that removed their mandates weeks ago, to all those still “worried”: Most in CA won’t be wearing masks within a week or two, vaccinated or not. And no, you can’t tell who’s who. Remain concerned? It’s probably best to stay home and/or keep wearing your mask.
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@NPR
The reaction in the economic sector has little to nothing to do with fears of the virus. Rather, it’s the fear of reactionary governmental authoritarianism, and the impact that has on the economy, that’s driving this.
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@nytimes
“Listen to the CDC! Wear your mask!”
“Don’t listen to the CDC! Wear your mask!”
The masks are now gone in the majority of the country, the choice is now an individual one, and nobody is putting toothpaste back in the tube.
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@VitalVegas
HOAs are a horrible way to pretend to be neighborly. They are the reason I left Summerlin.
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#JonBonJovi
just said in Vegas, "My football dream is done. I could buy the state of New Jersey for that money."
@jonbonjovi
@NFL
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The Fremont Street Experience has outlived its usefulness. Tear it down. Return the street to the public. Eliminate the ridiculous “pedestrian mall.” It’s time to move on from this debacle.
Happy birthday to Fremont Street Experience. The canopy saved downtown, now the zipline picks up the tab.
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@cnnbrk
Eight months in and nothing has done anything to stop the “spread” because ... virus gonna virus. Enough with the control experiments and enough with the fear porn; if you are vulnerable, protect yourself. The rest of the population should continue forward.
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@drdebt
@BillFOXLA
@kathrynw5
@FOXLA
Executive directives are not laws. Laws are passed by a constituent-accountable legislature. So, who missed civics class?
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@MZHemingway
People run to Nevada all the time, fleeing a state they already ruined, and then implement the same dumb policies that ruined the place they left.
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@VitalVegas
Sir, please clarify: is it a new "Mexican restaurant" or a "New Mexican restaurant"?
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@GovSisolak
At its core, Nevada is a purple state, which is why Nevada dealt with this decades ago. It’s also why vaccine mandates made no sense. The only sensible way forward is a libertarian-leaning middle ground. The rest is all just a political struggle for power over the individual.
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@GovSisolak
@johnnykats
Are you telling the tourists to “stay home”? Or are you telling the locals who are supporting local business to “stay home”?
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@repdinatitus
Since every elected official in the purple state of Nevada seems to be copying and pasting the same thing, I’ll do that with my response:
Politically motivated prosecution does not a democratic republic make. When partisanship wins, democracy loses.
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@MichaelN1969
@billmaher
Everyone should be enabled and permitted to make their own risk assessments (and choose their life path accordingly) rather than have these things instilled in them by fear porn and dictated by an overreaching executive branch.
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OLD VEGAS: “There’s a fire in the casino!” “Can I finish this hand?”
NEW VEGAS: “There was an earthquake 150 miles away.” “CANCEL EVERYTHING!”
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@Reuters
I literally laughed out loud at the "we can end this when..." perpetually-moving goalpost. I went back to work May 2020 and never looked back. Life is what passes you by while you are busy trying to "end" a virus rather than educate the vulnerable and deal with risk rationally.
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No business should be celebrated just because it’s in the DTLV / Arts District. There’s some poorly-run, overhyped, bad-service sh*t there, just like anywhere.
Likewise, no business should be sh*t on just because it’s in the ‘burbs. There’s awesomeness to be found.
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Recently, I went to the Italian-American Club for dinner with someone who hates everything. He loved it.
It may not be your cup of tea, but if you like Italian-American food and a supper-club atmosphere, you are doing yourself a disservice by not checking it out.
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Did the annual watching of “Casino” last night. What a glorious, bittersweet, and melancholy 178 minutes.
As a native, it truly hits as an emotionally confusing train wreck for many reasons, good and bad.
Old Vegas is dead; long live Old Vegas.
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I suggested Beverly Theatre screen "Blazing Saddles" since they fancy themselves as pushing limits. "Blazing Saddles" didn't necessarily push limits in 1974, but some 2024 folks will not "get it" and be apoplectic. To their credit, the Beverly is screening it this week.
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@reviewjournal
@GovSisolak
The fact he says that makes people want one. Can we get a legit *Nevada* governor soon?
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The
@LasVegasSun
is again refusing to refer to
#UNLVmbb
as “the Rebels” instead calling them the clunky and weirdly unofficial “scarlet and grey.” What is the actual deal here?
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@sfchronicle
The time to move forward is long past. As long as we breathlessly "count cases" this game will never end.
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"Rumors and bullshit. That's the No. 1 industry in Nevada."
-Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal
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Kind of sad to report that
@desertcompanion
is scaling back to 6 issues a year (+ two “special issues”) from monthly. Not only is it a great magazine to write for, it is a magazine that Las Vegas needs.
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@NevadaAG
Commenting on a politically motivated prosecution that almost certainly will be overturned on appeal is not a good look for the Attorney General of a purple state.
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@JacobsVegasLife
And, Las Vegas quantity was set as a fixed quantity almost 100 years ago and has never increased. Haters gonna hate, but Las Vegas is one of the most successful water conservation cities in the U.S.
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@NPR
As a decades-long listener I wish I could say this was surprising. But it isn’t. I listened almost exclusively to NPR for a long time, but haven’t done so in three years — about the same time I quit a decades-long listen to Howard Stern. Things changed in both studios.
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I’m a born/raised Las Vegan. I care about one sports team. That team is
@TheRunninRebels
#UNLVmbb
. Everyone else is an interloper / carpetbagger.
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@KimIversenShow
A successful society requires all kinds of people, not just the college educated. For some, the deferral of college is time wasted and lost. I suggest you read the book “Success Without College” by NYT writer Linda Lee.
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@NPR
So, 43k extreme lieftists have arisen to fight the 43k extreme rightists. Sounds great.
"I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again."
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@VitalVegas
Many commenting here miss the point: The Gaming Control Board is an executive branch creation, and as such, acts with brazen, overarching power. Worse, the only oversight it has comes from the Governor's office. I wish more people understood what "a nation of laws" means.
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The quantity of official (& unofficial) panicky emails/social media posts about *rainfall in Las Vegas* has convinced me that in the post-2020 world, everyone doesn't just love crises, they crave them, expect them, want them, and can't live without them. This is the new normal.
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The Clark County Commission meeting is infuriating. We are being governed by “public health officials” who essentially said that everything — including shutdowns — is on the table. Because all these measures worked so f*ckimg well before.
It’s insanity.
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@VitalVegas
Any headline / story that uses a word like "could" cannot be classified as journalism.
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@byHeatherLong
This is only half a stat; the other half is what they did next. Take another job? Retire? File unemployment? Move?
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@8NewsNow
We should reopen the state with better guidance for at-risk populations. Nothing anyone has tried so far has worked, because it's a *virus* and it will spread. Meanwhile, the evidence mounts that these "cures" are creating far worse long term social damage than the disease.
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@FOX5Vegas
Nope. The state is nearly bankrupt as it is, the DETR is running out of $$, the $600 fed help ends in 11 days, there is little funding to run state government without business / sales taxes. Closing NV again is sentencing the state to economic doom & reliance on federal handouts.
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@NoThank68182276
@BillFOXLA
The virus didn't cause this personal and economic implosion, the unncessary government-ordered shutdowns did.
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@VitalVegas
Being an employee has always meant adhering to the appearance/clothing requirements of the employer. Shouldn't even be controversial.
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