Don’t hold your breath. MGM Mirage surprised me by meeting today with the governor whose opponent for office the company has prominently endorsed. I wonder what came out of the meeting? According to the AP story running on the Sun site the news is great: “Casino operator MGM Mirage is pledging to quickly pay some [...]
I had some particularly scathing things to say this morning about Perini vs. MGM Mirage. But a filling deserted my mouth and so I am reduced to a whimpering victim until I am repaired at 1:30. So, here are scattered thoughts produced and delivered in pain: One interesting thing to look at is who owes [...]
The Facebook group “Citizens Holding MGM Accountable” has begun to issue forth propaganda from very sympathetic subcontractors. Giroux Glass President Anne-Merelie Murrell tells her story above. What is interesting to me is her acknowledgment that a great deal of her work was done too quickly and without the proper paperwork. She notes that one glass [...]
The document dump on CityCenter’s construction billing dispute I linked to yesterday between MGM Mirage and Perini is a fascinating though very partial glimpse of the acrimonious rift between the two giants that is now on the way to court. Perini’s release hints at events from over a year ago when CityCenter almost fell into bankruptcy, suggests MGM [...]
The new Facebook group started by Perini and other contractors on CityCenter ”Citizens Holding MGM Accountable” has made good on the promise to release the correspondence between the primary builder and the casino giant. At first glance, it seems the two communicated in a clearly irritated tone like people who fully expected these exchanges to have a future [...]
Our governor is remarkably unpopular. That is not a partisan statement. He happens to be a Republican. But neither Republicans nor Democrats are impressed by him. And, both speak better of him than his wife. Among those with no respect for Governor Gibbons there is Nevada’s largest private employer, MGM-Mirage. I have already blogged how [...]
