I believe Texas Station was the location of Floyd Mayweather's first professional boxing win. Other than that, and hosting the bar exam, it was probably not the most historically significant gaming property.
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September 13, 2022 5:40 pm
My family was staying at the Texas for a few days before we moved into a new house. We were provided with 3 tiny towels, the consistency of sandpaper. I went to the front desk and asked for 3 more towels. The woman at the counter said that there were 3 guests in our party, so we were only entitled to 3 towels. On the way back to our room I ran into a housekeeper and told her about the issue. She said, "What you should do is to go out to the pool. Grab as many towels as you like. They are huge, and very soft." We complied, and never set foot in the Texas again.
10:40-I've had similar experiences, both at large hotels and at small motels. And it's always best to resort to self-help, such as(which you discussed) getting towels directly from the pool area, or asking the housekeeper workers while they are in the hallway with their cart, or going directly to a laundry closet if it is open, etc.
But going to the front desk just results in being quoted asinine regulations(e.g. three people, well then three towels).
As for Texas Station, I won't shed a tear as it played no meaningful role in my life and memory. However, I have been involved in politics to some extent, and over the years have been involved with a number of organizations. And when I attended banquet events, it was always a lot more convenient when held in places like Texas Station, as opposed to hotels on or near the strip. Texas Station was accessible, lots of free parking areas, etc. And if you just recently dealt with the annoyance and aggravation of driving on the strip, and parking at a strip hotel, you can relate to how pleasant it is too instead go to an off strip casino with its much more accessible entry points, convenience, etc.
BTW, which strip hotels are NOT currently charging for public(non valet) self-parking? Most of them now charge.
I'm not a huge NBA fan; but some of the athletic stuff that NBA players do is really amazing. It's no so much a game as it is a demonstration of incredible athletic feats.
WNBA has almost none of that. It isn't sexism; the WNBA game just really is not very interesting. The NBA would have the same low ratings and attendance as the WNBA if NBA players were doing on the court what the WNBA players do on the court. The NBA is infinitely more popular not because they're men, but because what they do is more interesting.
@1:35 It's a shell of its former self. Most of their recent business has been Kurt Bonds and Adam Knecht as their insurance defense largely dried up when Dave Mortensen moved to Messner Reeves and LeAnn Sanders semi-retired. I'd say the over/under on the firm's life expectancy has to be less than 5 years.
Little known fact. ATM&S negotiated with their bank to be released from the partners personal guarantees on the mortgage. They then stove-piped the deeply underwater building and moved to the Asurion Building in the NW, letting the bank foreclose. This was about 5 years ago. The building is still vacant and for sale.
The state of the firm is as follows: their website identifies only 6 partners (3 named, AT&S) and 10 associates (very low number – 3 Boyd grads and only 1 BYU grad). Historically, they recruited heavily at BYU, but that seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, kind of like their prestige.
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September 13, 2022 7:37 pm
Glad to see the independent publishing something that doesn't fawn over a certain legal aid director, might encourage the other people who have been pointing out issues privately for years to come forward
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September 13, 2022 7:40 pm
Quick question, does anyone know of a case or authority that states that medicaid's lien has priority over other lien holders when it comes to PI settlements? I assume they would, but can't find anything that specifically says that.
Voucher System
A shame. CCSD can not deliver on a good education and parents who care are penalized by paying twice, once in property taxes and again for private tuition. I will be you lunch that vouchers would create a competitive environment and CCSD would quickly improve to keep more tax money.
CCSD will never, ever break up. There are too many administrators that feed at the bureaucratic trough. This town doesn't care about education, even a little. Those that do care, put their kids in private or charter schools, which makes them not care about CCSD.
Vouchers are not the answer. That whole theory is part of the far right's wet dream of privatizing the Dept of Ed and education in this country. Free public education is necessary for any civilized country. Without it we create a permanent underclass and I'm pretty sure that has not worked out well for anyone…just ask Marie Antoinette.
That said, I agree with 1:11's comment. CCSD is a mess and it's rotten from the top down. Admin needs to be slashed and that money should go into recruiting and retaining good teachers. We all need to care about CCSD because that's our future, like it or not.
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September 13, 2022 8:08 pm
Wow. The Telles saga continues to grow. He was arrested for domestic violence in 2020 against his wife.
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September 13, 2022 8:28 pm
It appears that rather than hiring a high profile criminal defense lawyer, or being assigned the Public Defenders Office(who have a few excellent attorneys with significant homicide experience), Telles has decided to have Travis Shetler continue to represent him.
That still may change, but through the initial two hearings Mr. Shetler remains his attorney.
Travis Shelter is good criminal defense attorney. Will he pickup Telles as court appointed counsel? Travis has a lot of credibility and could usher in a guilty plea that avoids a trial. The PD or Special PD would do good job reping him as well. I think Telles is off his rocker. The question is whether he can make a guilty but insane finding.
BTW, is the letter L, which appears twice in his last name, silent–such as pronouncing it like "Tay-es"?
Or are they to be pronounced, such as"Tell-ees" or "Tell-us"?
So far, I have only heard it pronounced by people with the two L letters being phonetically sounded out, but the fact the name is of Latin derivation would suggest the letter L should be silent.
Plenty of cheating lawyers. Not a surprise. My buddy slept his way through the legal community, from his time at the DAs office through his time in private practice, then continued to sleep through his staff. All while married. He hasn’t killed anyone. Yet. But some people care about their escapades going public and affecting their lives to the point that they are willing to do crazy, uncharacteristic things. I’ve witnessed it.
I went to law school with Rob and have stayed in touch with him in the years since. It’s “Tell-us”. And while I never thought he’d murder, he did have issues with anger management and unfaithfulness often on display for everyone to see.
FWIW, in the 911 phone call from his wife in 2020 on the DV incident, which the RJ has released, Rob's wife pronounces his last name with silent Ls.
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September 14, 2022 4:47 am
The @8:07 comment was directed to the comment about Telles indiscretions that was dirty deleted by the blog master. Too much censorship of the truth here, if you ask me.
Agreed. Those posts where people are shocked Rob did this have me laughing. Virtually everyone who knew him in law school and after knew he was a tool through and through. If you ever thought he was a good nice guy you were naive. Untrustworthy, unfaithful, anger management issues, substance abuse issues, lol. Yea, a real shocker.
8:54-Surpsied that you would be laughing at people being shocked that a public official would commit cold-blooded butchery of a reporter who composed unflattering stories about him.
I'm very sorry but you and I have vastly different views of what behavior can be validly predicted by past behavior, and what type of future behavior we can proportionately expect based on past negative behavior of dramatically less import than what eventually occurred.
In my world, if someone has a history of very violent crimes, then I am not necessarily shocked if they eventually resort to murder. But in your world if someone is a jerk or a tool, we should fully expect them to commit murder, and we are fools if we are startled that such people eventually commit murders.
In a bad week, half the people, as well as half of opposing counsel, that I encounter are at times being jerky or difficult. Should that be a clear indicator to me that they would butcher someone in cold blood?
Let's assume he did ignore boundaries when he was in student government at Boyd, and that his actions could legitimately viewed as unwanted sexual advances or even harassment.
Let's also assume that, relatively speaking he is quick to temper. And yes, he does in fact have a d.v. case from two years ago that was dismissed.
And let's assume he did have that affair with a subordinate employee, and that he provided that person, and others, preferential treatment at the cost of more veteran , deserving employees. Let's also conclude that he generally instilled, and presided over, a hostile work environment.
Let's assume all that and much more. It's still shocking to me, what happened. And if that conduct or reaction is laughable on my part, then I can think of a few dozen highly flawed attorneys, and non-attorneys, that I should predict as future murderers.
8:54, I hope you are not quite that jaded and cynical that everyone you encounter who seems like they are being a difficult jerk about something can slam-dunk be forecasted as a future murderer.
3:25, you're correct that the details, as you frame them, cannot validly predict such individual would go as far as committing murder.
But 8:54 is clearly suggesting it went well beyond what you describe, as 8:54 believes there were indicators that this was a truly unhinged individual in some key respects.
I believe Texas Station was the location of Floyd Mayweather's first professional boxing win. Other than that, and hosting the bar exam, it was probably not the most historically significant gaming property.
My family was staying at the Texas for a few days before we moved into a new house. We were provided with 3 tiny towels, the consistency of sandpaper. I went to the front desk and asked for 3 more towels. The woman at the counter said that there were 3 guests in our party, so we were only entitled to 3 towels. On the way back to our room I ran into a housekeeper and told her about the issue. She said, "What you should do is to go out to the pool. Grab as many towels as you like. They are huge, and very soft." We complied, and never set foot in the Texas again.
10:40-I've had similar experiences, both at large hotels and at small motels. And it's always best to resort to self-help, such as(which you discussed) getting towels directly from the pool area, or asking the housekeeper workers while they are in the hallway with their cart, or going directly to a laundry closet if it is open, etc.
But going to the front desk just results in being quoted asinine regulations(e.g. three people, well then three towels).
As for Texas Station, I won't shed a tear as it played no meaningful role in my life and memory. However, I have been involved in politics to some extent, and over the years have been involved with a number of organizations. And when I attended banquet events, it was always a lot more convenient when held in places like Texas Station, as opposed to hotels on or near the strip. Texas Station was accessible, lots of free parking areas, etc. And if you just recently dealt with the annoyance and aggravation of driving on the strip, and parking at a strip hotel, you can relate to how pleasant it is too instead go to an off strip casino with its much more accessible entry points, convenience, etc.
BTW, which strip hotels are NOT currently charging for public(non valet) self-parking? Most of them now charge.
WNBA is like junior varsity.
You clearly haven't attended an Aces game.
If you're not in the WNBA (I'm not), fine. I don't understand why some people feel the need to insult it. These are world class athletes.
Just sexism.
Who cares about women's basketball. The games are hardly attended like an Oakland As game. Just sayin. I will stick with NBA, MLB and the NFL.
I'm not a huge NBA fan; but some of the athletic stuff that NBA players do is really amazing. It's no so much a game as it is a demonstration of incredible athletic feats.
WNBA has almost none of that. It isn't sexism; the WNBA game just really is not very interesting. The NBA would have the same low ratings and attendance as the WNBA if NBA players were doing on the court what the WNBA players do on the court. The NBA is infinitely more popular not because they're men, but because what they do is more interesting.
Hockey is the only sport that matters.
Texas Station used to have a drive-through sportsbook. That was convenient during football season.
Off subject: what is going on with the old Bruce Alverson office on West Charleston? Is it available?
I'm sure they'd be happy to have someone buy or rent. There has been a sign advertising the space since the summer of 2017.
Halloween party store?
Is ATM&S even still open for business?
Jeff Silver finally retired at 80
@1:35 It's a shell of its former self. Most of their recent business has been Kurt Bonds and Adam Knecht as their insurance defense largely dried up when Dave Mortensen moved to Messner Reeves and LeAnn Sanders semi-retired. I'd say the over/under on the firm's life expectancy has to be less than 5 years.
@3:57 Looks like even Adam Knecht is also no longer with ATMS.
Little known fact. ATM&S negotiated with their bank to be released from the partners personal guarantees on the mortgage. They then stove-piped the deeply underwater building and moved to the Asurion Building in the NW, letting the bank foreclose. This was about 5 years ago. The building is still vacant and for sale.
The state of the firm is as follows: their website identifies only 6 partners (3 named, AT&S) and 10 associates (very low number – 3 Boyd grads and only 1 BYU grad). Historically, they recruited heavily at BYU, but that seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, kind of like their prestige.
Glad to see the independent publishing something that doesn't fawn over a certain legal aid director, might encourage the other people who have been pointing out issues privately for years to come forward
Quick question, does anyone know of a case or authority that states that medicaid's lien has priority over other lien holders when it comes to PI settlements? I assume they would, but can't find anything that specifically says that.
See NRS 108.585-660.
Voucher System
A shame. CCSD can not deliver on a good education and parents who care are penalized by paying twice, once in property taxes and again for private tuition. I will be you lunch that vouchers would create a competitive environment and CCSD would quickly improve to keep more tax money.
CCSD will never, ever break up. There are too many administrators that feed at the bureaucratic trough. This town doesn't care about education, even a little. Those that do care, put their kids in private or charter schools, which makes them not care about CCSD.
Vouchers are not the answer. That whole theory is part of the far right's wet dream of privatizing the Dept of Ed and education in this country. Free public education is necessary for any civilized country. Without it we create a permanent underclass and I'm pretty sure that has not worked out well for anyone…just ask Marie Antoinette.
That said, I agree with 1:11's comment. CCSD is a mess and it's rotten from the top down. Admin needs to be slashed and that money should go into recruiting and retaining good teachers. We all need to care about CCSD because that's our future, like it or not.
Wow. The Telles saga continues to grow. He was arrested for domestic violence in 2020 against his wife.
It appears that rather than hiring a high profile criminal defense lawyer, or being assigned the Public Defenders Office(who have a few excellent attorneys with significant homicide experience), Telles has decided to have Travis Shetler continue to represent him.
That still may change, but through the initial two hearings Mr. Shetler remains his attorney.
Travis Shelter is good criminal defense attorney. Will he pickup Telles as court appointed counsel? Travis has a lot of credibility and could usher in a guilty plea that avoids a trial. The PD or Special PD would do good job reping him as well. I think Telles is off his rocker. The question is whether he can make a guilty but insane finding.
Creepy Telles grins in Court today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p4Q-t24Dac
That's not what I saw. He looked terrified.
He was grimacing
BTW, is the letter L, which appears twice in his last name, silent–such as pronouncing it like "Tay-es"?
Or are they to be pronounced, such as"Tell-ees" or "Tell-us"?
So far, I have only heard it pronounced by people with the two L letters being phonetically sounded out, but the fact the name is of Latin derivation would suggest the letter L should be silent.
Plenty of cheating lawyers. Not a surprise. My buddy slept his way through the legal community, from his time at the DAs office through his time in private practice, then continued to sleep through his staff. All while married. He hasn’t killed anyone. Yet. But some people care about their escapades going public and affecting their lives to the point that they are willing to do crazy, uncharacteristic things. I’ve witnessed it.
@5:32 Rob told me once that it is pronounced with silent Ls, as in "Tay-us".
I went to law school with Rob and have stayed in touch with him in the years since. It’s “Tell-us”. And while I never thought he’d murder, he did have issues with anger management and unfaithfulness often on display for everyone to see.
FWIW, in the 911 phone call from his wife in 2020 on the DV incident, which the RJ has released, Rob's wife pronounces his last name with silent Ls.
The @8:07 comment was directed to the comment about Telles indiscretions that was dirty deleted by the blog master. Too much censorship of the truth here, if you ask me.
Agreed. Those posts where people are shocked Rob did this have me laughing. Virtually everyone who knew him in law school and after knew he was a tool through and through. If you ever thought he was a good nice guy you were naive. Untrustworthy, unfaithful, anger management issues, substance abuse issues, lol. Yea, a real shocker.
……but that cushy County gig. amiright?
8:54-Surpsied that you would be laughing at people being shocked that a public official would commit cold-blooded butchery of a reporter who composed unflattering stories about him.
I'm very sorry but you and I have vastly different views of what behavior can be validly predicted by past behavior, and what type of future behavior we can proportionately expect based on past negative behavior of dramatically less import than what eventually occurred.
In my world, if someone has a history of very violent crimes, then I am not necessarily shocked if they eventually resort to murder. But in your world if someone is a jerk or a tool, we should fully expect them to commit murder, and we are fools if we are startled that such people eventually commit murders.
In a bad week, half the people, as well as half of opposing counsel, that I encounter are at times being jerky or difficult. Should that be a clear indicator to me that they would butcher someone in cold blood?
Let's assume he did ignore boundaries when he was in student government at Boyd, and that his actions could legitimately viewed as unwanted sexual advances or even harassment.
Let's also assume that, relatively speaking he is quick to temper. And yes, he does in fact have a d.v. case from two years ago that was dismissed.
And let's assume he did have that affair with a subordinate employee, and that he provided that person, and others, preferential treatment at the cost of more veteran , deserving employees. Let's also conclude that he generally instilled, and presided over, a hostile work environment.
Let's assume all that and much more. It's still shocking to me, what happened. And if that conduct or reaction is laughable on my part, then I can think of a few dozen highly flawed attorneys, and non-attorneys, that I should predict as future murderers.
8:54, I hope you are not quite that jaded and cynical that everyone you encounter who seems like they are being a difficult jerk about something can slam-dunk be forecasted as a future murderer.
3:25, you're correct that the details, as you frame them, cannot validly predict such individual would go as far as committing murder.
But 8:54 is clearly suggesting it went well beyond what you describe, as 8:54 believes there were indicators that this was a truly unhinged individual in some key respects.