Tulsa, Okla.
As my wife and I were watching movers pack up our old apartment in Las Vegas, my phone blew up with angry reaction to a development that had become tiringly familiar lately.
“No Indiana Grand for Nevada horseplayers,” was the gist of one Tweet.
“Such a petty disservice in an industry that needs every ounce of interest/attraction it can muster,” was another reaction. It went on in another Tweet. “J-O-K-E. An issue for how many years?”
You can take the boy out of Las Vegas, but you cannot take the dispute between the Nevada Pari-Mutuel Association and Churchill Downs Inc. out of the boy. For the record this is the 538th day it has droned on with no end in sight. No one on either side wants to go on the record and openly negotiate through the media. Thus all the cloak and dagger here with sources and insiders and such.