CARSON CITY — In some rare good economic news for the state, taxable sales rose in April, though by a modest 0.3 percent, for the first gain since October.
The notebook sure filled up with small stuff during the crammed 12-hour special session last week. So I’ll dump out some of the more interesting items that didn’t make it online or into my Sunday column. First, here are three “You Know You’re in Carson City When … ” items.
On Monday, more than 50 House Republicans asked the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce required ethanol production this year, saying a law requiring a fixed amount of corn liquor be blended into gasoline sold at the pump will boost already high corn prices in the wake of recent Midwestern floods.
Although the power of the judiciary provides courts with opportunities for extraordinary mistakes, that same power delivers the means to remedy errors with relative dispatch. Witness the opening of previously sealed civil lawsuits in Clark County District Court.
Silver State Bank which held bank accounts for failed Southwest Exchange of Henderson is suing the state of Nevada, seeking to recover damages related to lawsuits over Southwest Exchange.
Poker professional Scotty Nguyen won nearly $2 million at the World Series of Poker at the Rio on Monday, topping a field of 148 players and emerging from a marathon final table with his fifth gold bracelet.
If the stock market were a casino, investors in Las Vegas gambling stocks would be the bleary-eyed guy in the wrinkled suit watching helplessly as the dealer plucks chips from the felt.
Las Vegas could become the hub of the nation’s solar thermal power manufacturing industry — or not.
A variation of an old Internet scam hit my in-box recently, and it took a bit of searching to verify my hunch that the offer was bogus.
Scratch the NBA, but add “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis to Steve Wynn’s short list — short on funds that is.