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Lawmakers Push Ban on Ban on Las Vegas Travel

Kevin Spak — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:06 CDT

No one is actually talking about outlawing government travel to Las Vegas or Reno in the wake of the GSA scandal, but a pair of Nevada lawmakers want to ban such a banning, just in case. Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Shelley Berkley are putting forward bills in their respective...

Heart Attack Grill Strikes Again

Kevin Spak — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:00:41 CDT

You can't say they didn't warn her: A woman collapsed at the Heart Attack Grill this weekend, just two months after the last time someone had a heart attack at the cheerfully morbid Las Vegas eatery. The woman was whisked away by paramedics and her condition is currently unknown. Owner...

GSA Nixes New Vegas Conference

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:04:17 CDT

In the wake of all the uproar over its $822,000 conference in Las Vegas in 2010, the General Services Administration has decided it may not be a good idea to return to Sin City this year, the Washington Post reports. Thus, the GSA axed "GreenUP 2012 Training Conference and...

GSA Vegas Fallout Claims 8th Victim

Mark Russell — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:30:00 CDT

The General Services Administration deputy commissioner who joked on video about the extravagant spending at the GSA's 2010 Las Vegas conference has been placed on leave, reports the Washington Post . David Foley is under disciplinary review for his conduct at the conference, making him the eighth GSA official so far...

Federal Heads Roll Over $822K Vegas Party

Polly Davis Doig — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:26:09 CDT

What happens in Vegas ... has come back to bite a federal agency that decided to throw itself an $822,000 conference that was every bit as posh as it was ill-advised. Martha Johnson, the administrator of the General Services Administration, has quit over the brouhaha, acknowledging in her resignation letter...

Luxury Machine Gun Range? Vegas Has It

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:32:33 CST

Tired of the same old bars and shows when you vacation in Las Vegas? Now, for a few hundred dollars, you can rent bona fide automatic weapons and fire them until the floor is piled high with shells, the New York Times reports. Machine Guns Vegas, with its black-clad hostesses...

Patron at Heart Attack Grill Gets ... a Heart Attack

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:46:01 CST

Hard to say whether this will end up being good or bad publicity: While chomping into a monstrous, 8,000-calorie "triple bypass burger" at the Heart Attack Grill in downtown Las Vegas Saturday night, a man had a heart attack. The diner, in his 40's, began sweating and shaking at...

Top 10 Trashiest Spring Break Cities

Dustin Lushing — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:40:18 CST

With spring break nearly here, the connoisseurs of trashiness at COED Magazine have ranked America's top 10 "trashiest" destinations:

Donald Trump: Vote for Mitt!

John Johnson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00:23 CST

In the end, the guys in the high-rent district of the 1% stuck together: Donald Trump today said it was "honor and real privilege" to endorse Mitt Romney for president, reports USA Today . "Mitt is tough. He's smart. He's sharp. Governor Romney, go out and get em," he said at...