QUICK TAKES

Wonder named peace envoy

SHOW US YOUR PURSE

Who? Kendra Hatch, executive hotel manager of Rio

Style Scoop

Sak it to Me: Saks Fifth Avenue celebrates the holidays from 2 to 5 p.m. every Saturday before Christmas with Santa Claus, hot cocoa, Trim-A-Home Shop, weekend sporting events in the Living Room and beauty counter gift-giving guidance. This Saturday, have your picture taken with the Nevada Ballet Theatre’s own Nutcracker, adopt a new best friend from the Animal Foundation, have any fragrance bottle purchase painted and adorned for free and meet interior designer Richard Stearns, who has holiday decorating ideas to beautify your home.

THE REAL DEAL

Why pay full price when you can get nearly the same look for much cheaper?

Gifts Just for Him

Holiday shopping lists usually start out as long as Santa’s and then budget restraints whittle them down. Before you know it, half your intended recipients wind up with fruitcake or white elephants. If you plan ahead, however, everyone on your first draft should get a present that doesn’t make you want to leave it on the doorstep and run.

HERE & NOW

EYES HAVE IT

Let’s see a plan

The smell of cash has the state’s education bureaucrats doing an about-face over a Nevada law that prevents classroom data measuring student performance from being used to reward or punish individual teachers.

Afghan conflict

After sitting on his hands for three months, President Barack Obama told the American people on Tuesday night that he will send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

Bigger, Bolder Luxury

Crystals, the 500,000-square-foot luxury retail and entertainment district at CityCenter, opens today pretty much how MGM Mirage officials envisioned five years ago: big, bold and energy efficient.

Study: Banking not priority for low-wage earners

More than a quarter of all Nevada households have no bank account or only limited access to banking services, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported Wednesday.

Las Vegas Chamber chief to be at talk

WASHINGTON — In an e-mail this week, Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce President Kara Kelley asked business owners for ideas to take to today’s White House jobs forum.

Station creditors seek trustee

The official committee of unsecured creditors in Station Casinos’ bankruptcy case are asking the judge to appoint a trustee to take over the company’s operations and develop a reorganization plan.

Vacant land prices tumble

Vacant land prices have tumbled to a six-year low in Las Vegas and are likely to stay there as the recession lingers into 2010, a local real estate analyst said.

IN BRIEF

NV Energy boosts rebates for consumers using wind power

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