Nevada liberals have offered lots of reasons (and lots of euphemisms) in their carefully waged campaign to — ahem — “overhaul” taxes. They’ve talked of tax “restructuring” and tax “stabilization,” of “reducing abatements” and “enhancing revenues.” They’ve somberly warned that the 144-year-old state must “grow up” and demonstrate “progress,” that its citizens must embrace higher tax burdens as evidence of “sophistication” and “compassion.”
Hard money lenders are going through hard times. Sometimes called private lenders, hard money lenders solicit money from individual investors so they can make loans to developers.
In one of the more ominous signs of Las Vegas’ crumbling housing market, foreclosures nearly tripled in 2008 from the previous year, Sacramento, Calif.-based Foreclosures.com reported Wednesday.
Gibbons’ Letter to State Employees
Gov. Jim Gibbons said Thursday evening that in these difficult times, government must avoid making people’s economic situations worse.
The diminishing supply of land available for industrial development in Las Vegas is going to hurt employment growth and stifle economic diversification, the executive director of Theodore Roosevelt Institute said today.
Video: Plane in water Video: Passengers taken to safety
NEW YORK (AP) — A US Airways pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines, but rescuers pulled all 155 people on board into boats as the plane sank, authorities say.