So, we have the real estate crisis, the bank crisis, the automaker crisis, rising unemployment and severe state budget deficits. It’s not a pretty picture.
Prior to engaging in their spending orgy (see above), the Democratic House leadership did one thing right: They allowed a vote on a congressional pay freeze.
Boyd Gaming Corp. executives repeatedly told analysts during Thursday’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call they would not answer questions about the company’s interest in spending $950 million to buy a large portion of rival Station Casinos.
A small Minnesota bank made a successful $730 million bid to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for performing and nonperforming residential loans made by failed First National Bank of Nevada, the chief executive officer said Thursday.
An ailing housing market slashed customer growth for Southern Nevada’s natural gas utility by nearly 80 percent in 2008.
“Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?” was the question posed by General Motor Corp.’s up-market division years ago in its advertising copy.
“So you have had quite a history on the road setting all of these driving records,” said the cheerful BBC Radio host, directing his questions with enthusiasm. “And now you are here in Glasgow doing what?”
The second annual Las Vegas Sporting Clays Classic recently raised more than $200,000 for the area Boy Scout council, and a local gun enthusiast won a two-year lease of a new Range Rover Sport courtesy of Land Rover Las Vegas.
Charles B. King had a dream, the way Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac had a dream when in 1701 he first put foot to land on the banks of the river which would one day be called Detroit, Mich.
