COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS
OPENING SEASON: With unemployment high and job openings sometimes slow to come, more local residents are becoming entrepreneurs and starting their own businesses.
APPS APROPOS: Hoping to capitalize on mobile-communication trends, more local businesses are developing applications for smartphones.
EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT: Hard Rock Hotel Chief Marketing Officer Phil Shalala describes his affinity for his property's young, hip culture and his love for snowboarding and dirtbiking.
THIS WEEK'S BUSINESS PRESS POLL QUESTION
Log onto the Las Vegas Business Press website and let us hear your opinion on this week's question.
In an unprecedented business maneuver, Perini Building Co. delivered a nine-page letter May 4 to Gov. Jim Gibbons seeking help in collecting more than $500 million the company is owed from construction of MGM Mirage's $8.5 billion CityCenter. The project's general contractor made it clear that it is urging federal, state and local officials to investigate MGM Mirage's nonpayment. The letter also warns officials about the repercussions to the more than 600 subcontractors who have not been paid for work done on the Strip megaresort.
Do you think Perini is right to bring local politicians into its business dispute with MGM Mirage?
Answer at www.lvbusinesspress.com/poll
