Archive for January, 2009
Bear Praise: Policing the Police
Friday, January 16th, 2009North Las Vegas detectives arrested two of the department’s own officers Thursday, who are suspected of misconduct during a December incident involving a casino patron. It is good to know that the North Las Vegas Police Department takes officer misconduct seriously. Although the two accused officers deserve the presumption of innocence just like anyone else [...]
The Bear Growls: Have five U.S. Supreme Court Justices lost their minds?
Thursday, January 15th, 2009From this news article: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the guilty should not “go free” just because a computer error or a misunderstanding between police officers led to a wrongful arrest or search. He said good evidence, even if obtained in a bad search, can be used against a suspect unless the police [...]
The Bear Growls: Shoddy construction but no meaningful enforcement; MGM, Harrah’s get free passes
Thursday, January 8th, 2009City Center has been exposed as containing substandard construction work. Just like the Harrah’s remodeling scandal, the scofflaws and/or incompetents who let this happen are likely to get away scot free. Do buildings have to collapse and kills hundreds of tourists before our local officials take these crimes seriously? No one has gone to jail [...]
TheBearGrowls.com moves to a new website hosting company
Monday, January 5th, 2009I apologize for the slow loading of this site for the past month or so. We have changed website hosting companies, and the site now loads properly. If you have any trouble reading it, or trouble with our RSS feeds, please email me. Thanks for reading, LV Bear
New York video poker/lottery scam
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009A reader submitted the following: Recently announced plans to open a huge VLT gaming facility at Aqueduct racetrack in New York City warrant a warning to New York’s VLT patrons who will think they have found well-paying video poker machines but who, in actuality, will be had by the VLT facility and its partner, the [...]
The Bear Growls: New Nevada Gaming Control Board appointee another industry insider
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Lipparelli, 43, who lives in Las Vegas, spent four years as an executive vice president at Bally Technologies and two years as president and vice president of Shuffle Master. Lipparelli also held several positions with Casino Data Systems, a technology company purchased by Aristrocrat Technologies in late 1999. Expected, but disappointing. I can’t remember the [...]