Education
Homogenizing failure
How the educational experience
gets spoiled
By Steven Miller
BusinessNevada
When milk is homogenized, it’s mechanically forced
through tiny channels that reduce the molecules of cream to
sub-micron size. This disperses them throughout the milk and
prevents cream from rising to the top.
In Nevada school districts, also, mechanisms are in place to
prevent the cream from rising to the top.
Some teachers, research has repeatedly shown, are much more
effective educators of students — regularly producing a lot more
genuine student progress than do their colleagues. Yet for
decades Nevada school districts have sold them out, refusing to
pay them more, other considerations equal, than the most
mediocre.
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Relocation
Nevada strikes a
nerve in New Jersey
Silverment
By Stephanie Tavares
InBusiness Las Vegas
Dozens of
out-of-state
businesses relocate to Nevada every year.
That is not a coincidence. The Nevada Development Authority and
individual municipalities recruit heavily in neighboring
states, trying to attract the most promising companies to grow
the tax base and increase employment.
Luring small businesses away from their birthplaces is something
most states attempt, but few have had the success of Nevada.
More than 250 companies have moved here from other states
since 2001 and 11 others have opened facilities here as part
of a multistate expansion.
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Politicians
Ex-governors
flog for clients
Hiring out as lobbyists & spokesmen
By Benjamin Spillman
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Former politicians
used to making the news took turns fighting for the
right to sell papers -- as well as cigarettes, magazines and
souvenirs -- from a proposed newsstand at McCarran International
Airport.
Former Nevada Gov. Bob Miller and former U.S. Sen.
Richard Bryan took turns in front of the Clark County Commission on
Tuesday arguing on behalf of two companies vying for the right to
operate a concession stand at the nation's sixth-busiest airport.
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Surveillance
Harrah’s expands
the use of RFID
Sticks electronic ID tags
on waitresses, others
By Valerie Miller
LV Business Press
Harrah's Entertainment
is testing innovations in player tracking in Las Vegas but gamblers
aren't the only ones being monitored. The company's use of
radio-frequency identification tags on cocktail waitresses and other
servers at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino is going into its second
year and the company plans to make further use of the electronic
tags.
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Real estate
Report: Number of
RE agents to shrink
By Brian Wargo
InBusiness Las Vegas
A doubling of real estate agents and brokers
in Nevada between 2001 and 2006 is more than the industry can handle
and there are indications a number of them are leaving the industry,
according to a report by the Nevada Association of Realtors.
The number of real estate agents in Nevada has
outpaced demand for their services, and the profession will see a
dwindling in its ranks over the next two years, according to the
report compiled by the Las Vegas consulting firm Applied Analysis.
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Currencies
Dollar plummets
Drops to a 2-year low against euro
By Isabelle Lindenmayer
Wall Street Journal
The dollar
sank to a two-year low against the euro after
the Federal Reserve softened its rate-increase bias and backpedalled
from previous upbeat comments on growth and inflation.
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Bubbles
Mortgage meltdown
By Andy Laperriere
Wall Street Journal
Stock markets
world-wide have sold off the past few weeks over concerns the
collapse of the subprime mortgage industry could prolong and deepen
the housing slump and threaten the health of the U.S. economy.
Federal Reserve officials and most economists believe
the problems in the subprime mortgage market will remain relatively
contained, but there is compelling evidence that the failure of
subprime loans may be the start of a painful unwinding of a housing
bubble that was fueled by easy money and loose lending practices.
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