COMING IN THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS PRESS
COMING IN THIS WEEK'S BUSINESS PRESS
FOREIGN INFLUENCE: Foreign investors are betting big on Las Vegas' future as more overseas companies buy stakes in local companies and projects.
OFFICE POLITICS: Election-year politics may be something everyone is talking about. But experts suggest you may want to keep the discussion out of the workplace.
EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT: Debra Nelson, vice president of corporate diversity, communications and community affairs at MGM Mirage, discusses likes and dislikes.
THIS WEEK'S LIST: Southern Nevada's largest residential real estate brokers.
THIS WEEK'S BUSINESS PRESS POLL QUESTION
Log onto the Las Vegas Business Press Web site and let us hear your opinion on this week's question.
"Sierra Pacific Resources' plans to build a $5 billion coal-fired power plant at its proposed Ely Energy Center has picked up another critic: Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, an investment research firm that said the company's plans will put the company and its investors at risk. Innovest's study suggests that Sierra Pacific Resources is not fully considering recent economic and regulatory trends that are making coal-fired power plants less competitive with gas-fired or renewable energy power plants. Sierra Pacific Resources said the report did not consider other parts of the company's proposal that make its energy plans more feasible.
"Do you think Sierra Pacific Resources should drop its plans to build a coal-fired plant at its proposed Ely Energy Center?"
Answer at www.lvbusinesspress.com/poll/
