Topic: Las Vegas
OPTIMISM IS NOTHING NEWSouthern Nevada is experiencing the end of its four-year economic decline and has begun to show economic growth, with "slight upward" job gains on the horizon due to an ongoing increase in tourism, said Stephen Brown, director of UNLV's ...
Unlike many of my Fourth Estate pals, I try to give government the benefit of the doubt. Sure, I have a certain cynicism imbued after a quarter-century of covering politics. But I don't default to the position that all politicians are inherently ...
Governor's Conference is revived after hiatusIt's been nearly four years since the Governor's Conference on Tourism made an appearance in Las Vegas.Not coincidentally, that's roughly the same time frame as the span of the Great Recession and former Gov. Jim Gibbons' term ...
Entrepreneurial spirit needed to weather economic uglinessAt first blush, Kat Toussaint is, above all else, a hairstylist, among the legion of workers - most of them women - toiling in the business of beauty in Las Vegas. She is one of about ...
Convention Center upgrade part of plansThe Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is ready to call the Great Recession history and initiate a multiyear, multilayered plan to spur growth in the city's $36 billion tourism economy.LVCVA President and CEO Rossi Ralenkotter said ...
Las Vegas' attempt to turn the corner on the recession has been made more difficult by a lack of educated workers coupled with reliance on industries most vulnerable to the recession.That is what can be drawn from a report issued by the ...
He paid a price for others' greed, but stood tallToo big a person to be a failure.As the news in Las Vegas both improves - slightly - for some, and changes dramatically - for so many others - I am reminded of ...
Southern Nevada could look to Salt Lake City, Provo, Denver and Colorado Springs, Colo., as models of diverse economies. The four are among the strongest in the region despite the three-year recession, with their increased dependence on health care, high technology, manufacturing ...
Brookings study should prompt Las Vegas to diversify its economyThe latest economic snapshot of the Intermountain West from Brookings Mountain West, a collaboration of the Brookings Institution think tank and UNLV, offered further evidence of the dire need for Southern Nevada leaders ...
Las Vegas homeowners will have to wait until 2020 to get back half the value of their home lost during the housing collapse and more than 20 years before getting it all back, according to a Pennsylvania research firm.The struggle of the ...
