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What is Mean NFL Coming to Vegas?

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What Does The NFL Coming To Las Vegas Mean To The City?

The National Football League is following in the footsteps of the National Hockey League and moving a team to Las Vegas. Las Vegas is considered one of the entertainment capitals of the world, but it has been without a major sports team until recently. There have been rumors of the NFL wanting to relocate a team to Las Vegas for quite some time, but it has finally decided to make the move.

Las Vegas is known for the entertainment and gambling, and the National Football League fits into both of those categories. The NHL has done very well in Las Vegas since the move, and the NFL should do even better. Obviously, the big question is how will gambling and the atmosphere of Las Vegas affect an NFL team and season, but there are many other positive things to consider.

We will explore the gambling aspect a little bit in this article but will talk about the other areas that will improve when the NFL officially kicks off in Las Vegas. Sportsbooks are no doubt excited to have an NFL team in their city, but plenty of other groups of people should be excited as well.

A Brand New Stadium

Football teams need a stadium to play in, and that means that a new stadium has to be built in the city of Las Vegas. Building a new football stadium creates a ton of new jobs for construction workers, and it also creates a ton of new jobs during game days.

It’s never a bad thing to have a new development in a city, and building a brand new stadium is always a good thing.

Another thing that a new stadium gives the city of Las Vegas is the opportunity to host other major sporting and entertainment events. There are already plenty of places throughout the city that bring in top entertainment, but they can’t seat as many people as a new football stadium can.

A new football stadium is a must when it comes to bringing in a new NFL team, but it serves a much bigger purpose than simply hosting games on Sunday.

Chance For A Super Bowl In Sin City

The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event of the year, and cities always line up with bids to host the big game. Once the NFL kicks off in Las Vegas, you can bet that the city will be high on the list to host a Super Bowl in the coming years.

 

The weather is one of the biggest reasons that the NFL will look to Las Vegas as a host, but the city will also provide a great backdrop for what turns into a week-long event. The National Football League is already hosting the upcoming NFL Draft in Las Vegas, and the Super Bowl is the next logical step.

A New Team For Vegas To Root For

The Vegas Golden Knights came into the National Hockey League just a few years ago, and they instantly became one of the most popular teams in the league. Fans in Las Vegas quickly fell in love with the Golden Knights, and they fell in love with the sport of hockey.

There are already plenty of football fans in Sin City, and they are going to love rooting for their new home team.

Football is the most popular sport in the world, and it can take over a city. Hockey fans might come and go based on the success of their team, but football fans are a different breed.

You can expect that the Las Vegas Raiders are going to be one of the most popular teams in the league in a hurry, and their jersey will be one of the best selling in the country.

Increased NFL Involvement In Sports Betting Industry

The sports betting industry has taken on a life of its own in recent months, and it has become a trend that has swept across the nation. The city of Las Vegas will always be known as the sports betting leader in the US, but betting fans can place bets throughout the country now.

Professional sports leagues had been resistant to accept the legalization of sports betting, but that’s no longer the case.

The National Football League has actually worked to create some deals with major sports betting industry leaders, and it is trying to get a piece of the action. Bringing an NFL team to Las Vegas is the next step that is going to open up a world of possibilities for the league.

You can expect to see betting kiosks set up both in and around the stadium on game days, and there is a good chance that a major betting company will be a sponsor of the team. There is no way to avoid this with a team being in Las Vegas, and it seems as if the NFL wants it to happen.

A Party Eight Sundays Of The Year

Let’s be honest, the National Football League is known for its great gameday atmosphere, and Sundays in Las Vegas should be a party. Every game of the season will be exciting for fans of the Las Vegas Raiders, but home games are going to be extra special.

 

The weather should be extremely nice all football season, and there is going to be plenty to do in and around the stadium on Sundays when the team is at home.

 

Even if the play on the football field isn’t that great, the fans are going to absolutely fall in love with this team, and fall in love with partying on game day. You can expect some major celebrities to become fans of this new team, and there will be some great entertainment acts taking the stage during pregame parties. Las Vegas plus the NFL is going to be a blast.

Vegas Golden Knight Tickets Go On Groupon 50% off

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Vegas locals are a fickle bunch, and with the Golden Knights no longer a “winning team,” and ticket sales in a series slouch they’ve turned to Groupon to sell the tickets at up to 50% off the regular price.

We don’t know if this is because of a losing streak or some sort of result of the weird cancelation rule that the instituted last year.

The Vegas Golden Knights “have canceled several hundred (season ticket) accounts and counting and will continue to do so” since spring after season ticket holders were “upset that there are too many tickets for resell or too many visiting team fans in the building.”

This is additionally strange, because according to the VGK the team has a bout double the ticket sales of the New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks, respectively, and the Golden Knights dominate the top 10 list of most in-demand games.

It’s very possible that most of the people who bought season tickets and early tickets were just business folks who wanted to resell them, and the actual crowds have nothing to do with it? With the tickets going on sale on Groupon, one has to wonder what is really going on.

Vegas Krispy Kreme Stores Not Honoring Free Doughnuts After VGK Shutout

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Ticketholders to the Las Vegas Golden Knights’ shutout victory against the Calgary Flames may have to wait or drive farther to get free doughnuts.

Krispy Kreme, which offers fans with a game ticket a dozen free doughnuts the day after a shutout game, closed multiple Las Vegas-area locations Monday.

The promotion, which started in 2017 and only applies to home games. has proven sweet for all sides.

However, claiming they were “changing ownership” the day after the promotion, they shut the stores until next week.

 

Elon Musk Starts Building Vegas Tram Tunnel

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Elon Musk’s tunneling company, The Boring Co.,​ will begin underground construction on a tunnel for a tram system at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Friday, Nov. 15. 

The company’s first major underground tunneling project paired it with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA). The people mover project is contracted at $52.5 million and scheduled to be completed in January 2021, in time for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. Aboveground work on stations and stops began last month, after TBC’s boring machine was assembled on site.

The deal was struck in May of this year, amid plans to expand the convention center footprint, adding 1.4 million square feet to the 2.3 million-square-foot footprint. The expansion, like the people mover loop, will be finished in January 2021, Dennis said. 

The convention center loop could be just the start of TBC’s work in Las Vegas. The tunneling company is currently working with the local government on a possible project to construct a tunnel underneath the Las Vegas strip, Jackie Dennis, dir

Vegas Sheriff Starts Sanctuary City Police without Approval of County

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While Sheriff Lombardo was once a Republican, it seems that he’s put his ring in the hat as a die hard liberal suddenly — after enormous pressure form the Casino industry.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Sheriff Joe Lombardo said he will no longer honor requests by Federal Law Enforcement to detain illegal criminal immigrants for the federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) moving forward  — without approval from County or State Executives to ignore the law. 

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, this policy was originally done in secret: “In December, Sheriff Joe Lombardo ordered his officers to stop notifying ICE when they had arrested an illegal alien who had only low-level traffic bench warrants. The policy change wasn’t made public until earlier this month when Metro lobbyist Chuck Calloway mentioned it to a legislative committee. In what Calloway insists was a coincidence, opponents of the 287(g) program had held a protest the day before his testimony.”

Sheriff Lombardo has made it clear during an interview on local television station Channel 8’s morning show he hates President Trump and made the decision after being pushed by the Casino executives.

Telephone calls to the county were answered by electronic devices on three different telephone numbers directing the callers to leave a message or to call another number that is also answered by another electronic device.
Sanctuary cities are described as “local governments that refuse to help the federal government enforce immigration laws and allow those entering the country illegally to wander around and not be detained.

 

Nevada Makes Marijuana Job Testing Illegal

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In a move that could blaze a small but important trail for workers’ rights across the U.S., Nevada has passed a bill telling employers and state agencies that they can no longer refuse to hire workers on the basis of their testing positive for cannabis. It’s a long way to come for a state that was once infamous for its notoriously strong prohibitionist laws penalizing those in possession of marijuana.

Last week, Governor Steve Sisolak signed AB 132, which prohibits the denial of employment to cannabis consumers after drug pre-screenings. Advocates are hailing the passage of the bill because it finally clears a major gap in the law between states that have rendered marijuana totally legal for medical or recreational purposes and those U.S. companies that try to block their workers from toking up at all.

In Nevada, as in the other several states that have made recreational cannabis legal across the country, employers were still able to turn people away from jobs if they failed the “whizz quiz,” or urine-based drug tests. NFL players seeking to recover from the intense physical pressures of football are unable to use cannabis-based remedies, doctors have lost their licenses for using medicinal cannabis, and 48 percent of businesses in otherwise weed-friendly Colorado have “well-defined” rules that allow them to fire employees if marijuana is detected in a worker’s test results.

However, a number of provisions in the bill complicate matters. Safety-sensitive positions including first responders such as firefighters and EMTs, doctors, transportation and construction workers are exempt from the bill, as are workers who belong to collective bargaining agreements—which bars union workers who are extant across numerous industries in Nevada, according to Merry Jane. Additionally, federal law demands that workers like truck drivers must take drug tests.

Paul Enos, the chief executive of the Nevada Trucking Association who helped ensure revisions to the law that would allow safety exemptions for certain workers, told the Washington Post:

Vegas To Start Arresting Homeless Folks Sleeping on Streets

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Known as perhaps the most corrupt city in the world, the City of Las Vegas (which doesn’t control most of the Las Vegas Strip, where Casinos are) has has passed a controversial law that puts homeless people in prison for as much as 6 months, for doing nothing except sleeping on the street.

The ordinance — the latest in a series of measures by US cities to grapple with rising vagrancy — comes into force Sunday, but its criminal provisions will not be applied until February.

According to the latest census, 5,500 people sleep on the streets of southern Nevada each night. Only 2,000 beds are available through municipal services and charities — meaning that there is no way they have a choice

Opponents of the law focused their anger on Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who is known as being a less than sympathic person, before and during the vote late Wednesday.

Former mayor Oscar Goodman, the husband of the current mayor, once even proposed shipping homeless people to proposed concentration camps outside the city only a few years ago.

Demonstrators outside City Hall chanted “Housing, not handcuffs” and held signs proclaiming “Poverty is not a crime,” local media reported.

It has been backed by Las Vegas’s Chamber of Commerce, which represents big businesses.

The measure has drawn criticism from beyond Las Vegas, including from several Democratic presidential candidates.

Kitchen Table Squared Owes Taxes and Employees, May Shut Down

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We’ve learned from a former employee and confirmed from another local expert that Kitchen Table Squared is in deep financial trouble, and that the Chef Javier Chavez is considering closing his failure of a restaurant.

The employee said she had not been paid her tips in forever, and provided a video of her encounter recorded on her phone as proof.

In the hidden video,  the Chef/Owner admits he took as much as $600,000 from the State of Nevada from the sales tax till, which is required by law to be turned over immediately — but  has been able to pay off some from loans from his millionaire mother, who “very very angry at him” for wasting it on “partying.” 

Another source said that he had spoken to the Chef, who admitted to him that he wants to shut down the restaurant.

While this restaurant seems to be a bomb, his original restaurant in Henderson still seems to be doing amazing and is still very much popular. 

We called the restaurant twice for comment, and was unable to get comment before publishing, and their PR Agency refused comment.

The Best Asian Restaurants in Las Vegas For Under $20

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Looking to satisfy your appetite for Southeast Asian fare?

We crunched the numbers to find the best affordable Southeast Asian restaurants around Las Vegas, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to venture when cravings strike.

1. Plumeria Thai Cafe

PHOTO: PLUMERIA THAI CAFE/YELP

Topping the list is Plumeria Thai Cafe. Located at 6710 W. Cheyenne Ave. in North Cheyenne, the Thai and Hawaiian spot is the highest-rated low-priced Southeast Asian restaurant in Las Vegas, boasting 4.5 stars out of 306 reviews on Yelp. 

If you’re curious for more, we found these details about Plumeria Thai Cafe.

“Plumeria Thai Cafe was started in the “Aloha State,” the business states in the history section of its Yelp profile. “After retirement from the military, the husband and wife team wanted to do something they love and in 2009 opened the doors to the Cafe in Wahiawa, Hawaii. In 2015 the opportunity arose to reopen the Cafe’ in Las Vegas and continue to serve the people the twist on Thai Food on the “Ninth Island.”

2. Thai Pan Cuisine

PHOTO: NOONIE M./YELP

Next up is Rancho Charleston’s Thai Pan Cuisine, situated at 463 S. Decatur Blvd. With 4.5 stars out of 285 reviews on Yelp, the Thai spot has proven to be a local favorite for those looking for a low-priced option.

Visitors can expect noodle dishes, curries, chow mein entrees, rice-centric plates and a variety of lunch specials. Stir-fried meals, salads and soups are also on offer.

3. D E Thai Kitchen

PHOTO: JOMPON C./YELP

Meadows Village’s D E Thai Kitchen, located at 1108 S. Third St., is another top choice, with Yelpers giving the inexpensive Thai spot, which offers noodles and soups, 4.5 stars out of 180 reviews. 

The site has lots more information on D E Thai Kitchen.

“Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand,” the business explains in the bio section of its Yelp profile. “Chef/owner Jompon was exposed to the food scenes from all over the country, including authentic traditional home cooking and street food [techniques]. He lived in three different regions of Thailand and experienced many different food cultures.”

Interested so far?

“Special dishes like softshell crabs, Kua Gai, Kao Soi, Kua Gling, Pla Rad Prik, Boat Noodles, Yentafo and Drunken Fried Rice, and Classic dishes like Pad Thai, Panang, Som Tum, Tom Yum, Tom Kha, Larb and many more,” it states on Yelp in the section about specialties.

4. Sister’s Oriental Market & Video

PHOTO: MARIA M./YELP

Sister’s Oriental Market & Video, a grocery store and Thai and Laotian spot located downtown, is another much-loved, affordable go-to, with 4.5 stars out of 159 Yelp reviews. Head over to 1732 Fremont St. to see for yourself. 

Expect entrees like Thai boat noodle, pineapple fried rice, papaya salad and barbecue duck soup. 

Yelper Lillian V., who reviewed Sister’s Oriental Market & Video on Aug. 26, wrote, “This place is phenomenal, When you walk in, you will be taken aback because it is apart of a small grocery store. But honestly, that is the key to their authenticity.”

5. China A Go Go

PHOTO: MK AND JC H./YELP

Over in Lone Mountain, check out China A Go Go, which has earned 4.5 stars out of 159 reviews on Yelp. Dig in at the Chinese, Japanese and Thai spot by heading over to 10450 W. Cheyenne Ave., Suite 120. 

Expect economically-pleasing appetizers, soups, salads, fried rice, chow mein, chicken entrees, signature favorites, chef specialties and much more at this authentic Asian spot.

Yelper Derek O., who reviewed China A Go Go on Sept. 30 wrote, “Just picked up a quick lunch here: it’s fantastic! If you like quick, cheap and good Chinese food I strongly recommend it.”

Yelper Angela M. wrote, “Best in the neighborhood. Always fresh ingredients, always delivered faster than estimated, always great service. I’ve only had delivery or pickup from China A Go Go, but I’ve been pleased every time.”

Lawsuit: Palms Resort Scammed Employees of KAOS Nightclub: Didn’t Pay Them!

While paying executives and talent exorbitant amounts, and claims that there were illegal kickbacks to several well known personalities, Palms Resort in Las Vegas has refused to pay many of their employees for work they did including past due tips.

According to court documents, the suit brought by Alyssa Faulstick and other employees was filed by workers at KAOS, claiming they were fired without proper notice or payment. The lawsuit was brought under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as the WARN Act.

Red Rock Resorts announced the immediate shutdown of Kaos Tuesday.

According to the LVRJ, “It’s definitely been disheartening,” said plaintiff Alyssa Faulstick. Everybody who worked at Kaos “had been there from the beginning. We’ve all put in blood, sweat and tears to get the venue open and try to turn it into what it could be.”