Can anyone say "State Income Tax"? The Californication of Nevada is nearly complete.

What a crock! Nearly all the people this guy has listed he does or has done consulting work for in the past. Where is the discussion about raising the gaming tax to anywhere near a level that other states charge? You're not going to hear it from this guy. No way! How come all these people that are selected for this column are all the people who have managed to rip off both the public AND the private sector in this town? Yet, they are given space in this paper as they are considered experts on everything in this valley. Hey Jeremy, triple the gaming tax, ban neighborhood casinos, stop collecting consulting fee shakedowns of local governments, and get local governments and the State to live within their means before you start to tell me what you think will improve the quality of MY life.

J. Patrick, you're a great reporter but this is a breaking news story, not the opinion page. Keep your opinions about the decision and its results to yourself. The voters have spoken, if you want them to speak again to reverse themselves, then write an op-ed piece that suggests they do so.

I disagree with many of these comments. Please understand, though, that I am a HUGE skeptic with bringing sports to Vegas-minor or major league. I just think that MLS would be a huge draw-especially with the Hispanic population and the foreign visitors. However, and its a big one, the stadium idea is a terrible one. That alone will cause it to fail financially. For God's sake, just play in the Silver Bowl for now and worry about filling those 40,000 seats before leveraging yourself to build a half billion dollar stadium.

Just what our society needs. A high speed train to get either people from LA to here to gamble...or here to California to go to Disneyland an hour or two faster. The only thing Nevada will be the leader at is low paying jobs. The legislators honestly think and state they want a better Nevada but the casinos don't care and that is who pays for the legislators. This town should be about half to a fourth the size of what it is now if you were to measure it by what the gaming industry needs to support itself with workers and what the infrastructure will bear.