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It was the diversity of Sequoia National Park that caught us by surprise. Merely desiring to walk among the largest trees on earth had been enough to bring me here with two of my daughters, but we also found incredible waterfalls and panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada, and soaked in deep pools along a couple of the park’s rivers. We saw seven bears, including three cubs, during a visit of only four days.
The upper echelon of income earners, once regarded as somewhat immune to general economic woes, is starting to feel the pain of living in a city with the nation’s highest foreclosure rate, local luxury home brokers said.
The casino industry and the general business community have long disagreed on how to subsidize Nevada’s multibillion-dollar biennial budget.
The delay of a $734 million expansion at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut says as much about the economic state of the gaming industry as the Aug. 1 announcement by Boyd Gaming Corp. that it was halting construction of the $4.8 billion Echelon.
FAMILY MATTERS: As much as family-owned businesses have been romanticized over the years as the backbone of the economy, data prove the ventures are fragile. The magazine Family Business Review reports that fewer than one-third of family-owned companies survive to the second generation.
