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Why creating a community-oriented business culture is a great investment

Why creating a community-oriented business culture is a great investment

People magazine’s recent Companies That Care list highlighted firms that have succeeded in business while also demonstrating respect, compassion and concern for their employees, their communities and the environment. By any standard, then, Las Vegas’ business community reflects the best that our nation has to offer.

People on the Move: April 16-22, 2017

In the Notes: Sandra Douglass Morgan, Kevin Diec, Yousif Muradian, Michael Feder, Jackie McMahan, Ryan Jensen, Dan Schwarz, Linnea Mitchell, David Bloom, Angelo Aragon and more ...

Restaurateur dove in, then learned to swim (figuratively, at least)

Carmen Taitague Tenorio displays her restaurant’s Fiesta Plate and Chamorro beignets.

The owner of Guamanian restaurant Red Rice shares her experience opening a business with little experience, talks about teachers being devalued by society and explains why she doesn’t eat sushi.

Beauty on a budget: Spa aims to put a day of pampering in everyone’s reach

Doug Grant is co-owner of Seva Beauty inside Wal-Mart locations in Las Vegas and Henderson.

Whoever said the rich are the only ones who can afford to pamper themselves never met Doug Grant and Audrey Davis, whose business targets cost-conscious customers for spa treatments that won’t break their budgets.

Structural engineers are silent heroes

Imagine if the winds experienced over the past weeks were not adequately resisted and buildings, bridges or signs failed. The damage would have been catastrophic for thousands of people and devastating for the local economy.

The Data: April 16-22

All of the information your business needs: Bid opportunities, bankruptcies filed and building permits issued. To add to our data, email us at [email protected].

Federal tax bills: Where does your state rank?

U.S. residents paid Uncle Sam an average of $8,943 per person in federal income ...

The iPhone of cars? Apple enters self-driving car race

This Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013, file photo shows the Apple logo above a store location entrance, in Dallas. Apple will begin testing self-driving car technology in California, its first public move into a highly competitive field that could radically change transportation.

Apple is joining the fiercely competitive race to design self-driving cars, raising the possibility that a company that has already re-shaped culture with its ...

Nearly $50 million in room tax projected to be collected in 2018 for Raiders stadium in Las Vegas

A look at the planned $1.8 billion domed football stadium for the Oakland Raiders and UNLV football in Las Vegas.

Room-tax revenues toward the new Raiders stadium in Las Vegas are projected to near $15 million in the first four months of collection before moving toward $50 million in fiscal year 2018. Those figures come from a proposed budget included in the agenda posted Thursday for next week’s meeting of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority Board. While negotiations on the team’s lease ...

Best month for New Jersey's internet gambling lifts casinos

Joseph Brennen of Ventnor, N.J., logs on to a Harrah's online casino on his laptop from a highway rest area in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, the first day of a test of Internet gambling in New Jersey.

There's no longer much of a debate about it: Internet gambling is helping to save Atlantic City's casinos. New Jersey's online gambling market had its best month ever ...

First e-sports arena coming to the Strip

Teams compete during the Dreamhack Masters e-sports tournament Feb. 17 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Las Vegas will be getting its second e-sports arena soon, in the space once occupied by the now-closed LAX nightclub at Luxor, according to an announcement Tuesday from Allied Esports, the company developing the facility.

NV Energy again meets its renewable energy goals

A view of solar panels at the Enbridge Silver State North Solar Project in Primm on Monday, May 7, 2012. Silver State North, owned by Canada-based Enbridge Inc., sells power to NV Energy for use in the Las Vegas area.

NV Energy has reached its mandated renewable energy goals for the seventh straight year. In a filing with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, NV Energy reported it achieved ...

New rooftop pool at Plaza getting additional upgrades

The rooftop pool and recreation deck at the Plaza that opened in July is getting additional improvements to be ready this season.

The rooftop pool and recreation deck that the Plaza opened in July is getting more attention as the weather heats up. ...

Luxor transforming closed LAX nightclub into e-sports arena

Exterior of Luxor on Las Vegas Blvd on September 30, 2015.

The Las Vegas Strip is getting its first space dedicated to competitive gaming when the Luxor transforms its LAX nightclub Las Vegas into a multilevel e-sports arena.

Move over, GM: Tesla is most valuable U.S. carmaker

Tesla Motors unveils the new, lower-priced Model 3 sedan at the Tesla Motors design studio Thursday, March 31, 2016, in Hawthorne, Calif.

Just days after surpassing Ford to become the second most valuable carmaker in America, Tesla on Monday rode a stock-price surge to grab first place ...

Human smuggling, money laundering probes surround Saipan casino

When FBI agents recently raided an office on the U.S. island of Saipan, they unlocked a cabinet full of Chinese passports belonging to construction laborers without work credentials. The agency, which made at least one arrest, said it was acting ...

Hospitality Hall nearly ready to enhance UNLV hotel college’s soaring reputation

An exterior view of Hospitality Hall, a new facility under construction at UNLV, Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

You can’t say the new $59 million, 93,500-square-foot building under construction at UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration signals a coming of age for the program if only because ...

Beat stress on the job

Beat stress on the job

More than half of workers said they are stressed at work on a day-to-day basis, and 60 percent said work-related pressure had increased in the past five years, according to a new survey by Menlo Park, Calif.–based staffing firm Accountemps ...

The List: Colleges, universities and technical schools, April 9, 2017

Find out about colleges, universities and technical schools. This week, we rank them by enrollment.

The Data: April 9-15

All of the information your business needs: Bid opportunities, bankruptcies filed and building permits issued. To add to our data, email us at [email protected].