Hotel.Online Hospitality News
May 8, 2008

• BRIEF: Governor wraps up Gaming Summit with word on casino legislation (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
• Tribe wanting to buld casino granted 254 acres in Bay Area (Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.)
• Dallas council member Mitchell Rasansky wants voters to weigh hotel issue: Some criticize his conflict of interest in project (The Dallas Morning News)
• Grandview Inn fire ruled arson (The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky.)
• Long Gaughan: El Cortez owner sells stake in downtown casino (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Pinnacle profits in first quarter (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• Restaurants feel pinch as business expense accounts go on diet (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
• More of downtown getting a face-lift: $1 million project meant to meld hotel with other areas (Merced Sun-Star, Calif.)
• BRIEF: Hotel worker charged with assaulting female guest (Star Tribune, Minneapolis)
• Plans to redevelop buildings dropped: Economic conditions lead to withdrawal of hotel, condo projects (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• BRIEF: Paradise Inn to open May 16 (The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.)
• The Triangle's best restaurants (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
• Convention Center: The name game: More than 125 people weigh in on what the new downtown building should be called (The Santa Fe New Mexican)
• Red Lion reports net loss; company buys Denver hotel (The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.)
• The Wichita Eagle, Kan., Carrie Rengers column: Owner: There's always room for a chic hotel (The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)
• Waco's Townhouse Hotel has final checkout time of May 25 (Waco Tribune-Herald, Texas)