STYLE SCOOP

• Good Jeans: Chip and Pepper Foster, the L.A.-based premium denim designers, are expanding to offer a price-conscious denim collection called Mill Iron. Mill Iron’s premier collection will be available in Las Vegas July 10 at Buckle at Town Square.

HERE & NOW

HOT PANTS

Iraqi conflict

It’s too early to declare Iraq a total success, or even to pretend American troops have left the country entirely.

Choppy seas

Wednesday marked the official start of what state lawmakers hope will be a two-year pleasure cruise. The higher tax rates approved by the 2009 Legislature took effect with the promise of delivering Nevada’s schools and social services from chaotic revenue shortfalls and special-session budget cuts.

Small-town flier finds big-time trouble

Officials at Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air are dealing with fallout from three unusual — and unsettling for passengers — in-flight engine problems in a little more than 60 days.

New Trop owner vows return to glory

On his first day back as a Strip executive, former MGM Grand exec Alex Yemenidjian greeted his new employees with a promise to return the Tropicana to its former luster.

IN BRIEF

Las Vegas Sands cuts staff by 194 workers

Vacancies climb as rents fall

Commercial real estate is going through the kind of downturn experienced by the residential market four years ago, with supply outstripping demand and foreclosures on the rise, the research manager of Colliers International brokerage in Las Vegas said Wednesday.

SBA lending falls in state despite loan volume boost

The Small Business Administration has increased its loan volume nationally by 40 percent or $5.5 billion since the federal stimulus act was approved in February, but SBA lending in Nevada contracted rapidly in the last year.

CALIFORNIA-LAS VEGAS RAIL ROUTE GETS FEDERAL DESIGNATION

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced today that the California High Speed Rail corridor has been extended to include Las Vegas.


The designation could help the two competing rail projects — the privately run DesertXpress and publicly funded California Super Speed Maglev train — apply for funding or loans.



Officials from DesertXpress meet with R-J editorial board

Ensign’s ‘Silent Sinner’ Strategy Working … For Now

It appears what I call the “silent sinner” strategy of U.S. Sen.
John Ensign is working in the short run – if you compare the press
he’s not receiving to the devastating articles now filling South
Carolina Luv Gov. Mark Sanford’s political scrapbook.

IN BRIEF

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Belated Beckham on fans’ bad side

David Beckham shouldn’t expect a royal welcome back for his return to Major League Soccer this month. In fact, the head of the U.S. Soccer Federation believes Beckham’s return to the Los Angeles Galaxy will be met with a shrug or a boo rather than a cheer.

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