Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
It’s hard to imagine that someone as smart as William Weidner, former president and chief operating officer of Las Vegas Sands and one of the backers of the Lucky Dragon, could have been so wrong about positioning the off-Strip casino that closed its doors Jan. 4 and faces a foreclosure auction on Feb. 6.
Tourism and gaming leaders are starting to think big about what Las Vegas is going to look like as an NFL city.
Construction crews can’t get that $1.4 billion convention center expansion done soon enough.
Every year at around this time, we look back at the good (and bad) times of the previous year.
Here’s one of those only-in-Vegas holiday stories.
The Oakland Raiders’ philosophical Commitment to Excellence has become a Commitment to Las Vegas.
Experts with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and researchers who study the hospitality industry say it’s too early to tell if there will be any long-term implications on visitation from Great Britain as a result of the Brexit vote.
