Four Las Vegas Review-Journal staffers took honors in the 2013 Society for Features Journalism contest.
When I was a child, my father more than once threatened to get a baseball bat and etch “Steven’s Attention Getter” into the wood. He told and retold a story about a farmer plowing a field behind a stubborn ol’ mule, the punch line of which had to do with the stick the father carried on the plow — the mule’s “Attention Getter.”
After interviewing David Copperfield for a feature you can read next week, talk drifted to Las Vegas showrooms — the physical venues themselves.
Southern Nevada’s economy has taken a beating over the past five years, so just about any news related to job creation is good news. To that end, the Governor’s Office of Economic Development Board last week approved tax abatements that are expected to create about 330 jobs around the state.