COVER STORY: Las Vegas lending executives weigh in on lessons learned in 2012, expectations in 2013, pending banking regulations’ effect on the industry and continued weakness in consumer loan demand despite a commercial revival.
The city that has grabbed international prominence by building scaled-down versions of prominent skylines, dancing fountains and shopping malls styled after Venice and ancient Rome has never figured out what to do with Santa and friends and shown little interest in trying.
For this year’s edition of our more or less annual holiday writing contest, we asked readers to craft a holiday-themed story with a Las Vegas angle. But, in a bit of a twist, we required that they include a handful of specific words into their narratives.
If you have children or grandchildren who believe in Santa Claus, don’t let them read this (not that they would be thumbing through the Business section anyway.)
Stanley Johnson had quite a weekend in Las Vegas.
NEW YORK – Khalif Wyatt had never been in Madison Square Garden, let alone played there.
Plenty of historic treasures are on display at the Nevada State Museum next to the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas. But much of the museum’s other inventory remains hidden, roughly 80 percent.
The news came to Dr. Michelle Humm on that Friday morning through a Connecticut fog as distant as childhood.
When Clark County officials at Tuesday’s meeting asked for approval to transfer $35,000 to pay for an emergency call system – little more than a cellphone in a box – at a Laughlin park, Commissioner Steve Sisolak was incredulous.
Before the Connecticut school shooting, death by assault weapon came to Carson City. In 85 seconds, on Sept. 6, 2011, Eduardo Sencion emptied three, 30-round clips from his automatic assault rifle, releasing a hail of gunfire toward breakfast diners at the IHOP in the state capital.
Experts say 2013 isn’t as big a year for Obamacare as 2014, when individual and business mandates kick in. Still, some people will notice a few tax tweaks after New Year’s Day.
