WHO’S WHO IN BANKING: The local economy keeps struggling and lenders have turned up the scrutiny. Looking at a would-be borrowers’ track record, even from year ago, or looking at future performance projections won’t happen, lenders say; only the here and now matter.
Unemployment remains high across Nevada, but the lack of work has fallen especially hard on the Silver State’s teenagers.
Mark Ricciardi never planned to stay nearly a quarter of a century in Las Vegas, or climb into the highest echelon of labor lawyers. It just worked out that way.
A motorcyclist was killed in an accident in the northwest Arizona community of Golden Valley on Friday.
He hasn’t won one major yet, though that surely will change today unless Rory McIlroy has a meltdown of monumental proportion. One day the record will reflect that his march to greatness began with a U.S. Open title won in such a romp that by the final round, his fellow pros had dropped any pretense of having a chance to beat him.
CARSON CITY — At first glance, the 2011 Legislature did nothing to make the life of John and Jane Q. Public any worse.
After the events of the past week, maybe this newspaper should consider changing its name to the North Las Vegas Review-Journal.
One of the gifts given to Mayor Oscar Goodman at his last full Las Vegas City Council meeting last week was the gavel he used to preside over meetings for the last 12 years.
Jerry Zinnes doesn’t want to come off as a “sourpuss” — he repeats this many times.
Tough economy or not, politics never sleeps in Nevada.
WASHINGTON — The House voted last week to cut millions of dollars from Food and Drug Administration spending, with lawmakers clashing over the impact of budget cuts on food safety.
Just down the hill from the Nye County ghost town of Rhyolite, something is moving where there was no movement before. Pushed by the wind, the spinning steel arms of a new sculpture sweep through the dry air like the hands of a malfunctioning clock.
Nathaniel Montague, a former disc jockey known as “Magnificent Montague,” owns a collection of rare African-American artifacts that has drawn the interest of the Smithsonian Institution.