Recently added articles from Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV):
Airport traffic surges 6 percent in August.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Benjamin Spillman Oct. 2--Nearly 4.3 million people flew to and from McCarran International Airport in August, a 6 percent increase from the same month in 2006. The busy month pushed the year-to-date total to 32.2 million, up almost 5 percent from the pace ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal Inside Business column.(Column)
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--UNLV SERIES WILL COVER ON-SITE MANAGEMENT: The certified graduate builder's 2007 series will cover on-site project management in its next course, running 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas' Lied Institute for Real Estate Studies will present ...
Coming to a TV near you ...
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Benjamin Spillman Oct. 2--Are you tired of enormous cell phone bills? Do you feel like a hostage to the phone company? What if I told you there was a way to use the Internet to slash your phone bill 70 percent without complicated computer software ...
Shiny new fixture for the future.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Howard Stutz Oct. 2--After operating the MGM Grand Detroit for several years in a refurbished downtown building that once housed the Internal Revenue Service, MGM Mirage executives tired of calling the casino a temporary property. "We started referring to it ...
Utility parent to seek renewable-energy proposals.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: John G. Edwards Oct. 2--Sierra Pacific Resources will announce today its annual request for proposals to provide the utility's subsidiaries with alternative energy supplies. The holding company for Nevada Power Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co. needs to boost ...
Las Vegas-area business leaders seek access to federal land for developers.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Steve Tetreault Oct. 2--WASHINGTON -- Fearing that Las Vegas slowly is running out of property for development, business leaders are suggesting that Congress expand the amount of federal land in Clark County that could be opened to builders. Members of the ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal Inside Business column.(Column)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Oct. 1--CITY NATIONAL BANK NAMES ADVISORY BOARD: City National Bank recently created a Southern Nevada advisory board. Peter Thomas will serve as chairman. Other board members are William Allen Kaercher, Bradley Peterson, Susan Mardian, Gary Goodheart, Joe Essa, Karla Perez, James ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevadan at Work column.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: John G. Edwards Oct. 1--Chad Stone doesn't want to save the world. But he does want to save computers and do his part for clean air by using emergency vehicles powered by vegetable oil. His company, PC911, got its name from the emergency number for ...
Callback for phone-in help centers.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jennifer Robison Oct. 1--Las Vegas has spent the better part of a century catering to the whims of fun-seeking tourists, but the city also formed a cottage industry processing their credit-card payments and booking their travel. Call centers became a mainstay ...
Assembly bill would tighten mortgage loan qualifications.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: John G. Edwards Oct. 1--The end is near for so-called stated-income mortgage loans in Nevada because of a consumer protection law enacted earlier this year, some mortgage lenders say. Assembly Bill 440, sponsored by Assemblyman Marcus Conklin, D-Las Vegas, ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal Real Estate column.(Column)
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Hubble Smith Oct. 1--Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Las Vegas-based LaPour Partners have started construction of the 123-room Element Las Vegas hotel near the Las Vegas Beltway and Town Center Drive in the master-planned Summerlin community. The project ...