Sisolak echoes Sandoval, urges Gaming Commission to act on sexual harassment rules
Gaming Commission members are so far ignoring a call from Governor Brian Sandoval to consider proposed rules to help protect hotel and casino workers...
Titus goes to bat again for hungry kids
For close to two-thirds of Clark County students, the free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches they receive at school may be the most nutritious...
Nevada’s precarious labor rate among nation’s highest
Earlier this month the state reported that unemployment in Nevada, though still above the national rate of 3.7 percent, had dipped a tenth of...
Nevada income growth is miserable and a stadium won’t fix that
Nevada's median household income rose from $25,776 in 1984 to $56,550 in 2017, a 119 percent increase.That's the smallest increase of any state in...
36 cents an hour? The debate on subminimum wage is here
In front of the woman sits a piece of cardboard with a dozen individual rectangles drawn on in permanent marker. Working slowly but steadily,...
#MeToo on ice in Nevada casinos
UPDATED with comment from Governor Brian SandovalIt’s not often a gaming executive takes on industry regulators, but Caesars Entertainment executive Jan Jones Blackhurst, who...
State gives tax breaks to Google, all stimulus-response like
If Google hires 50 people in Henderson by the end of 2023, great. If Google spends $600 million on its Henderson server farm or...
Supply of iron workers weak link in stadium construction?
July 31, 2020. That’s the projected completion date of the $1.84 billion Las Vegas Stadium -- and not a moment to spare before the...
Amazon sweepstakes prompts references to, well, you know
Amazon's official announcement this week that it would build so-called HQ2's in the New York City and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas sparked renewed debate...
Brookings Mountain West launches “Las Vegas and the Middle Class” project
There’s one thing that rich and poor have in common in the U.S. -- they both tend to describe themselves as “middle class.”That might...