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Southern Nevada saw a record 42.3 million visitors in 2015, according to preliminary statistics issued this week by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Strong convention attendance figures boosted the total, which were reported Tuesday at the organization’s monthly board of directors meeting. Continue reading
Would you trade information about when you’re in your house — and in what rooms — for the promise of cheaper energy bills, even if that means you’re sending this data to a distant tech company? Continue reading
MGM Resorts International will break from a long-standing Las Vegas tradition and begin charging customers to park at the company’s Strip resorts as part of a $90 million strategy to “expand and enhance” the company’s parking infrastructure.
The parking fees will go into effect sometime between April and June the company said in a Friday statement, which also announced plans for a $54-million, 3,000-space parking structure MGM will construct near the northwest corner of the Excalibur. Continue reading
Over the winter break, my teenage children observed, based on their friends and acquaintances, that young adults are much less eager to get their driver’s licenses than they once were, and that in general fewer young people have them. I was skeptical at first, but it turns out they’re right. In 1983, 92 percent of Americans aged 20 to 24 had a driver’s license. In 2014, just 77 percent did. Were it not for that decline, 3.5 million more young people would be drivers today. Continue reading
Las Vegas is one of the world’s top destinations to bring in the New Year. The Las Vegas Strip shuts down to all cars and becomes an adult playground for pedestrians. Las Vegas knows how to start the New Year with a boom. Several hotels on the Las Vegas Strip synchronize fireworks to music and celebrate a fresh new year in style. It is important to think about one’s safety on a holiday that is known for a late night, parties and of course drinking. Continue reading
First, let’s be clear – this is only a SMALL sampling of simple questions agents and underwriters fail to ask! There are dozens of simple, common sense questions that are often skipped – why remains a mystery.
Second, this article does not provide every answer or option available for each of these questions. This is not intended as a text book, the point of this short article is to raise your awareness of the need to ask questions, even or especially those that may seem basic. Because if you don’t ask, the lawyers will (and juries will be very interested in the simplicity of the questions). Continue reading
State legislators in Ohio and Florida are moving ahead with regulations governing Uber and other ride services that would designate all drivers as independent contractors, bolstering a critical but much-disputed aspect of Uber’s business model.
The states would join North Carolina, Arkansas, and Indiana in requiring the contractor designation as part of new laws governing so-called transportation network companies, a Reuters review of state legislation showed. Continue reading
The next wave of hobby drones will be wrapped in boxes underneath Christmas trees before they fill the skies. If industry sales projections come true, the holiday season will put tens of thousands of relative novices at the controls of small unmanned aerial vehicles in densely populated cities and suburbs. All that amateurish swooping over houses and cars, spooking pets and dodging humans, will invariably lead to cracked windows and more than a few bloody injuries. Continue reading
