In The News: Lee Business School
Since 2012, Marisela Olvera has folded the towels, tucked in the sheets, and vacuumed the floors of 62-story, gold-plated Trump International Hotel just off the Las Vegas Strip. But unlike the tens of thousands of hospitality workers just like her across the city, her boss is running for president.
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Local experts met Monday to talk about the economic outlook for 2016, and it looks like experts are feeling optimistic about the future of Nevada's economy.
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Developer Eric Cohen spent a lot of time trying to figure out downtown’s housing market and whether he could pull off an apartment project there. His company moved to former bakery Holsum Lofts, immersing itself in the neighborhood as Cohen looked into possible deals.
"Reno's driving me nuts," said the homeless drifter who went by the name Angel. "Every night that I'm out here, the meth heads are everywhere. They'll steal anything. Anything."
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Erika Arizabal tried to console her patient as he fought the urge to squirm in pain on the X-ray table.
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The business school of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas this year boasts a higher ranking among the nation's top undergraduate business programs, according to 2016 college ratings released today by U.S. News & World Report.
As technology becomes increasingly omnipresent, some people have begun to ask if we own our technology or if it owns us. For some of us, has technology become an addiction?
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FOR a picture of America’s pre-crisis economy, pay a visit to the south-east corner of Las Vegas. Where the valley begins to rise into the high desert, a Chinese developer has carved the top off a mountain. A wide, empty, road rises into what looks like the remnants of an Inca city. The project, named “Ascaya”, was once America’s biggest excavation site. The idea was to sell the plots to Las Vegas’s elite, whose mansions would enjoy a view over the desert in one direction and the bacchanalia of the Strip ten miles away in the other.