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New businesses: But don’t forget companies barely hanging on

The firm currently has only seven employees. Nonetheless, the recent decision of Walls 360 — a graphic arts firm that licenses images from children’s books and video games to make life-size wall art — to relocate from San Francisco to Las Vegas is welcome news to a city that’s struggled with both its image and the financial effects of the Great Recession for more than three years.

Bubble to burst?

The country — and particularly Southern Nevada — remains crippled by a housing bubble that burst with fantastic force around 2007.

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Sometimes doing the right thing is hard

In my heart, I know former Gov. Bob List is right: Moving Nevada’s Republican presidential caucus from Jan. 14 to Feb. 4 to accommodate New Hampshire’s ridiculous and unreasonable demands is probably the right thing to do.

On the job

Rarely does a seasoned politician so succinctly lay bare his party’s true agenda. But that’s precisely what Majority Leader Harry Reid did Wednesday when he took to the Senate floor to utter this doozy: “It’s very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine. It’s the public-sector jobs where we’ve lost huge numbers, and that’s what this legislation is all about.”

Federal pay freeze

Two key U.S. senators last week endorsed extending a federal pay freeze for a third year. It’s the least that should be done, given the nation’s fiscal realities.

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