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The Reopening Has Begun. What’s It Like Out There?

May 15, 2020

Masks, thermal cameras, QR code menus, lots of hand sanitizer — and an abundance of caution: a preview of the new normal

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Business: Rise of the bet bots

Dec 21, 2018

There’s an arms race brewing in the sportsbook as bettors and bookmakers adopt AI to give them an edge.

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NLV to Potrepreneurs: Welcome, Bud

Jul 25, 2018

With plenty of grow-worthy facilities and an eye to new revenues, North Las Vegas is embracing the marijuana industry.

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Business - Complex Situation

Jan 01, 2018

I don’t recall precisely when I first heard the acronym NIMBY, but I do recall what I initially thought of it: Not in my back yard? How silly. How … unprogressive. Then the years flew by, I became a homeowner, and someone wanted to build a storage facility on the empty lot around the corner from my house. Oh, hell no — not in my backyard!

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Speedy Beatty

Nov 27, 2017

A new fiberoptic system that will give this tiny town the fastest internet in the state is just the latest innovation from a unique rural energy co-op.

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Now with golf: The Boulevard Mall continues to reinvent itself

Mar 29, 2017

Two new additions suggest the aging, urban shopping center continues to evolve

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Catch a Rising Star

Feb 23, 2017

As Mesquite remakes itself into a youth-sports mecca, a new resort caters to traveling athletes and their families.

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Virtual slam dunk

Oct 25, 2016

As demographics and entertainment demands shift, Las Vegas is primed to rule the booming e-sports future 

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Green and gold

Jul 26, 2016

There’s a lucrative pot rush under way in Colorado. With Nevada about to vote on recreational marijuana, a few lessons from that Rocky Mountain high.

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Starts and crafts

Apr 28, 2016

From a 20-year brewer outside Elko to a fledgling brew pub in Virginia City, Nevada has its share of the micro-beer market.

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Lifelike

Aug 27, 2015

For the Werners, taxidermy — “capturing the spirit” of a dead creature — is all about family, tradition, memory and a love of animals.

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The big bang theory

Nov 01, 2013

Hypothesis: If you encourage tourists to shoot guns, more tourists will come to shoot guns. It seems to be working.

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See Spot run --and do yoga?!

Jun 01, 2012

The pet wellness biz is booming. Are doggie treadmills and yoga more
bark than bite? A girl (and her dog) investigate

Mark my words: The day is coming when “dog trainer” will mean “personal trainer for a dog,” as in: “I’ll be there at 8:30, right after I drop off Fifi at the gym for her trainer appointment.

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The art of commerce

Sep 01, 2011

For artists who don’t know a capital gain from a canvas stretcher, there’s Financial Groove

When sidewalk performers start shaking it in Lady Liberty costumes to remind you it’s tax season, artists might be thinking something different, like: Can they claim that costume as a business expense? For those who make their living in the performing arts, whether to write off their outfits is just one item on a list of unusual financial concerns.

Jessica Scheitler is the owner and operator of Financial Groove, an accounting and bookkeeping firm that exists to bridge the gap between the Internal Revenue Service and the world of artists.

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Pediped: Young kicks be free

Jun 01, 2011

Minimal footwear is all the rage. Pediped is turning the trend into kids’ stuff

The human foot is a marvel of Darwinian engineering — 26 bones, 33 joints and more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments of one-of-a-kind ambulatory innovation, the very advancement that enabled Homo erectus to erectus and stand head and shoulders above primate peers.

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Relax, Inc.: Busting stress the old-fashioned way

Jan 01, 2011

The irony of the rise in the stress-relief industry, says Ron Lawrence, director of the Community Counseling Center of Southern Nevada, is that many of the same benefits you can get with professional help are available for free by doing things you've had to cut out of your busy schedule. Remember long walks and family picnics?
Whatever type you are, you don't necessarily need a pricey therapist or arcane yoga poses to take back a semblance of sanity.

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Relax, Inc.: Inside the burgeoning wellness industry

Jan 01, 2011

Inner peace sells, but who's buying? We all are. A seasoned, stress-busting insider offers insights on the modern industry of peddling wellness

It used to be that massage therapy was for injured athletes, psychotherapy was for the mentally ill, and boxing was for, um, boxers.

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The Etsy artisan next door

Jun 22, 2010

In a world of faceless dot-commerce, crafty Vegas entrepreneurs turn to Etsy, where Sin City sells itself

Seeing her dress on a young Japanese woman at a Tokyo rock 'n' roll wedding is what hooked Jennifer Henry. The neon-striped number straight out of the '80s was Henry's first sale from her online vintage clothing shop, Flock Flock Flock.

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