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Jennifer Robison Gaming Guru - Page 6Southern Nevada economy: Analysts' projections sour4 August 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Ah, 2009.
The year of the city's rebirth, when tens upon thousands of new residents march toward Las Vegas to fill new resort jobs, thereby lifting the housing market out of its doldrums.
Or so local economists and housing analysts believed before Friday morning, when they heard ... (read more)
Nevada economy: State loses 10,700 jobs to China31 July 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- As August's Summer Olympics open in Beijing, America's top athletes aren't the only homegrown product headed to China. A new study found that some of America's -- and Nevada's -- best jobs have decamped to the People's Republic as well.
The Silver State lost 10,700 jobs to China ... (read more)
McCarran security scans won't be for the bashful11 June 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- So how tight is security at America's airports these days?
Pretty darned tight, if you ask Alabamian Stan Tew.
"Soon, we'll all be wearing Speedos and thongs, with terry-cloth robes, opening up and doing a flash as we go through (checkpoints)," said Tew, as he sat inside The Forum ... (read more)
Gasoline prices hit new high5 June 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Standing at the gasoline pump sporting shorts, a T-shirt, sunglasses and bare feet, musician Tim Wray cut the perfect image of an easygoing surfer dude headed to California for a laid-back beach vacation.
Before Wray and his girlfriend, Alli Evans, could hang 10, though, they ... (read more)
Boyd Gaming aims for LEED-certified laundry22 May 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Boyd Gaming Corp. executive Rick Darnold harbors inside knowledge of the company's dirty laundry.
And these days, Darnold is dishing out details.
As vice president of strategic sourcing for Boyd, Darnold helped oversee the development of the company's new laundry center, a ... (read more)
Las Vegas' airport rates high in survey21 May 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Flying can really bite these days.
Airlines fly fewer runs, planes swell with some of their highest passenger counts ever and tickets cost more.
But McCarran International Airport on Tuesday shrugged off troubles besetting air travel and posted big numbers in a nationwide ... (read more)
LV billionaires take beating on Forbes' list7 March 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- A global survey of the wealthy shows 2007 wasn't a vintage year for Southern Nevada's richest residents and visitors.
Forbes magazine's list of the world's billionaires, on newsstands now, point to eroding assets or falling rankings for several of the dozen or so Las Vegas ... (read more)
MGM Mirage grace under disaster4 February 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- What a way to get a hotel-room upgrade.
When Steven and Randie Siegel arrived at the Monte Carlo Jan. 24, they checked into one of the hotel's standard rooms on the 25th floor. But a fire the next day forced the Maryland couple out of the Monte Carlo -- and into some seriously posh digs at MGM Mirage's Signature high-rise development at the MGM Grand. ... (read more)
Las Vegas resorts never looked better29 January 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The latest Mobil Travel Guide shows the march of luxury up and down the Strip continues unabated.
Mobil's lists of Five- and Four-Star winners included 19 Southern Nevada's hotels, restaurants and spas. Mobil named 419 winners across North America.
The Tower Suites at Wynn Las Vegas earned Mobil's Five-Star honors for the second year in a row. ... (read more)
Broader tax advised to fill Nevada coffers7 December 2007
NEVADA -- Nevada's tax revenue came in $46 million below projections between July and September, and special-interest groups are preparing state ballot questions to boost the gaming tax.
For members of the hospitality industry, there's one solution to both quandaries: a "broad-based" business levy ... (read more)
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