Nevada’s tourist volume slumped in 2008, but a select group of visitors kept on coming — and they even spent more money than they dropped statewide before the recession began. Producers and directors of film and television projects like “Race to Witch Mountain” spent $110 million shooting and finishing shows in the Silver State in 2008.
Now comes GOP activist Nathan Taylor, who dares to challenge Clark County Republican Party Central Committee Chairman Bernie Zadrowski.
For months I’ve been telling you about the river of cash flowing from local topless cabarets to cab and limo drivers, who are being paid to drop off customers. Often those customers are being diverted to the club that pays the drivers the most money – up to $100 per person in some cases.
The Hard Rock Hotel will hire 800 more workers by the end of the year to complete staffing for the property’s $750 million expansion, the property announced late Tuesday night.
With the rest of the tourism industry in economic torpor, Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air just keeps gaining steam, increasing passenger traffic more than 20 percent in May.
The leisure-oriented airline that specialzes in flights from small towns to Las Vegas, Arizona and Florida increased scheduled service 25.8 percent to 434,501 arrivals and departures.
Lawyers for the community organizing group ACORN and its regional director blasted the state’s prosecution of the group, calling it politically motivated. … Attorney Lisa Rasmussen, who represents the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, said today that the group has been working hard to reduce voter disparities in Nevada.
