You leave your smartphone and iPad turned on when you charge them. Your computer receives emails as you sleep. All night, you receive texts, tweets, posts, news and a plethora of other information. Your bedroom at night looks like a landing strip.
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There’s no two ways about it. The recession took its toll on the vacation ownership, or time-share, industry.
Since the Wet ’n Wild water park on the Las Vegas Strip closed in 2004, Las Vegans have been bone dry in the premier water amenity category. Sure there are some great pools in town. Some have slides that don’t come close to quenching a thrill-seeker’s thirst, but they’ll do in a pinch for an 8-year-old. Now, nine years later, thanks to the vision of a handful of business people, the valley will soon be home to two water parks by Memorial Day weekend.
When Tracy Omar goes to work at the Springs Preserve, just about everything around him has some kind of story to tell that touches on the extraordinary.
If you’re reading this in the morning, by tomorrow’s breakfast Twitter will have another 150,000 new subscribers. More than 33 million unique visits will have occurred on YouTube, and more than 333,000 on Pinterest. And Facebook will continue sweating the competition while posting more than 680,000 new pieces of content each minute.
With laptops, tablets and cellphones in hand, there are professionals out there who can’t, or won’t, leave work behind, either for a dinner with friends or for a much-needed vacation.
During the past five years Southern Nevada, along with other areas in the state and across the country, has been hit hard with the loss of jobs and slow moving economic recovery. In an effort to improve Southern Nevada’s economic outlook and address employers’ and job seekers’ concerns, the Southern Nevada Workforce Investment Board, known as Workforce Connections, has a full-press plan in place .
American women pursue equal rights in the workplace. An irony of that workplace chase is that women are disproportionately represented in executive management and on corporate boards when women are America’s primary buying force in a consumer-driven economy.
Fifty thousand more jobs in Nevada by 2014 is Gov. Brian Sandoval’s grand goal in the two-year economic development plan he unveiled last year.
They started in tents, at least in the memories of most of us in the Southwest. Depending on how far you want to go, Indian gaming’s origins could be traced back hundreds of years, when wagers were placed on athletic events or games that required a certain skill set. In more modern times, Indian gaming that looks more like casino gambling started in the 1970s, when tribes in California and Florida operated high stakes bingo halls with the intention of raising money for local government and economic development.