COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS

GONE POACHING: Nevada seeks new ways to convince businesses to call Silver State home.

EXCUSES, EXCUSES: Managers and HR experts have heard it all when it comes to employees skipping work, especially in diversion-rich Las Vegas.

EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT: Dr. Mitchell Forman, dean of Touro University's College of Osteopathic Medicine, discusses his workaholism and love for his dog.

THIS WEEK'S LIST: Construction companies, equipment dealers.

THIS WEEK'S BUSINESS PRESS POLL QUESTION

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

A coalition of consumer protection and free market groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has called on Congress to pass legislation legalizing Internet gambling in the United States. The coalition said legislation establishing legal and regulated online gambling platforms would be the best way to protect the public against fraud, underage use and problem gambling.

Is it time for Congress to consider legislation to allow regulated online gambling in the U.S.?

Answer at www.lvbusinesspress.com/poll/