COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS

FIXING THE FISCAL HOLES: The state budget is in crisis, but local businesspeople can't agree on how to fix it. Gaming leaders want nongaming businesses to share the burden, either with a boost in the modified business tax or the adoption of a gross receipts tax. The business community has resisted those requests.

POCKET-SIZED PROBLEM: The proliferation of portable technology and the Internet have left companies to grapple with how much employees can bring their homes to the office.

EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT: Nevada Gaming Control Board member Mark Clayton discusses his career influences and his favorite restaurants.

THIS WEEK'S LIST: Public relations agencies and advertising agencies in Southern Nevada.

THIS WEEK'S BUSINESS PRESS POLL QUESTION

Log onto the Las Vegas Business Press Web site and let us hear your opinion on this week's question.

Less than two days after refusing to step in to save Lehman Bros. investment bank and just hours after the Federal Reserve resisted cutting the federal funds' rate, the federal government agreed to an extraordinary $85 billion bailout of struggling insurance giant American International Group. Federal officials argued that allowing AIG, which does business with nearly every financial institution in the world, to go bankrupt was unthinkable because of the possible adverse effect on the world economy and financial markets.

Do you agree with the Fed's decision to save AIG?

Answer at www.lvbusinesspress.com/poll/