• Fashion Talk: The International Academy of Design & Technology invites members of the local fashion and retail communities, along with the general public, to attend its Design Series Friday, 7-8 p.m. This month’s presentation will be lead by local fashion writers Colleen Smiley, deputy editor of Vegas magazine, Leslie Frisbee, editor of Las Vegas Magazine and Xazmin Garza, fashion reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The event is free and open to the public.
Despite giveaways designed to win votes from coal-mining states and others likely to be heavily stomped, “Many environmental groups” still support the 940-page greenhouse gas permitting bill that was endorsed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 21, because “it still creates a ‘cap-and-trade’ system,” The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Democrats in the Legislature love to talk about creating “green” jobs. So they passed SB152, designed to train some Nevadans to help weatherize homes and the like.
BOSTON — Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced Wednesday that organizations working in 33 states would receive $1.5 billion in business tax credits fueled with federal stimulus money and aimed at creating and saving jobs in areas hit hard by the economic downturn.
Peter Eastgate did the math. The odds aren’t in his favor.
WASHINGTON — Buyers who were brave enough to dive into the market for a bargain-priced house helped provide a modest boost to sales last month.
Community Bancorp, a $1.9 billion-asset holding company based in Las Vegas, and its key subsidiary, Community Bank of Nevada, signed a regulatory agreement to limit their loan concentrations in development and commercial real estate and to address several other regulatory concerns, the company said Wednesday.
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