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Dennis Oppenheim, artist behind downtown neon paintbrushes, dies

Dennis Oppenheim, the artist behind the neon paintbrushes downtown, died Saturday. He was 72. The Las Vegas paintbrushes sit unlit on Charleston Boulevard at the intersections of Casino Center Boulevard and Fourth Street. They were one of Oppenheim’s final projects but went unfinished as he quietly battled liver cancer.

Most firms in R-J survey plan to keep staff at current levels

A Review-Journal survey conducted online in December and early January found that 55.5 percent of local businesses, most of them smaller operations, said they’ll keep staffing at current levels in 2011, while 21.1 percent said they’ll hire additional employees. Another 10.3 percent said they might cut workers in the year.

Operation Homefront hosts military baby shower

It would have been easy to mistake Ashlie Chumley for a first-time mom, considering the way she dressed her new teddy bear Saturday at a mass baby shower for military families. After all, she put the diaper on OVER the bear’s bodysuit.

Survey finds most company execs expect improved sales, local recovery

At last, local businesses say they have high hopes for Southern Nevada’s recession-battered economy. A recent online survey from the Review-Journal found that a majority of company owners and managers expect improved sales and a broader economic resurgence in the Las Vegas Valley in 2011.

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