Today’s digital world has changed businesses and their needs. Before the digital age, a lock and key was sufficient to keep out bad actors. However, businesses now require experts in technology to create safeguards for their assets. Challenges for those experts include everything from cyber protection to workforce. AI is also changing the technology game by creating … [Read more...] about Industry Focus
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How the New(ish) Sports Industry is Shaping NevadaThe State’s Effort to Collect Professional Teams and Its Impact on the Economy
In half a decade, Nevada has racked up nearly all the infinity stones of professional sports: once the Las Vegas A’s stadium opens for the season, the state will be home to both minor and major league baseball, the NFL, NHL, and WNBA. How did this rapid growth happen, and what does it mean for Nevada locals and calls to diversify the state’s economy? Culture of Hospitality … [Read more...] about How the New(ish) Sports Industry is Shaping Nevada
Somewhere to Hang Your HatNevada’s Residential Housing Market
Everybody's got to live somewhere, and as Nevada continues to diversify its economy and remains state tax-free and business-friendly, more people are choosing to hang their hats in Nevada and call it home. It's just there aren't quite enough hat racks. Coming into 2026, the Nevada housing market can best be described as stable. There are no big jumps in housing prices, and … [Read more...] about Somewhere to Hang Your Hat
Property Rights Are Economic Rights
There is a dangerous idea quietly gaining ground in America, and it strikes at the very foundation of freedom itself. It is the notion that property is not a right, but a privilege; not something to be stewarded by citizens, but something to be managed, limited, or redistributed by the state. History is clear: once property rights fall, liberty soon follows. Nevada, perhaps … [Read more...] about Property Rights Are Economic Rights
What Nevada Businesses Can Expect This YearEconomic Forecast 2026
“In 2025, Nevada was tall on fear and short on facts,” said Brian Bonnenfant, director of the University of Nevada, Reno Center for Regional Studies. “In 2026, I see more uncertainty.” Bonnenfant is one of Nevada’s data experts forecasting a not-so-bright future – dependent on how and when Nevada businesses react. That being said, not all of Nevada is in a … [Read more...] about What Nevada Businesses Can Expect This Year
Industry FocusHealthcare
Healthcare is complicated and it is easy to become overwhelmed by the system. This is true for patients as well as providers. However, despite the immense challenges facing Nevada including obstacles of physician shortages, insurance affordability and access, healthcare in the Silver State is improving. Recently, a group of experts in healthcare met at a roundtable sponsored by … [Read more...] about Industry Focus
Employment in NevadaDiversification is Key
It has been over five years since COVID was declared a public health emergency and the Las Vegas Strip went dark. On that ominous day that the lights turned off, the implication to the world was clear – Las Vegas was closed for business. As a result, thousands rushed to apply for unemployment, and the fragility of Nevada’s economy became an issue that could no longer be … [Read more...] about Employment in Nevada
Architects and EngineersDesigning Nevada’s Commercial Real Estate
The commercial real estate market (CRE) is always changing, responding to economic forces, to population changes, to vacancy rates and demand, and to trends of how buildings in the different market segments – industrial/warehousing and distribution, retail/restaurant, office, healthcare/medical office, multifamily/apartments – are being utilized. CRE buildings come to life … [Read more...] about Architects and Engineers
SocialismThe Death of a Free Nation
The American dream is anchored in individual freedom, the God-given ability to work hard, take risks and reap the rewards of personal effort. Socialism, by contrast, smothers motivation and extinguishes the hope of gain by replacing individual initiative with collective dependency. For freedom to flourish, there must be the hope of gain. When that hope dies, the human spirit … [Read more...] about Socialism
Most Respected Leaders2025
Leadership is a challenge not for the faint of heart. It’s a responsibility and carries with it weight and sacrifice. Good leaders, like those featured in the following pages, understand that. Whether forging a path for others to walk or mentoring a new generation, the 2025 Most Respected Leaders earned the designation through hard work, servant leadership and … [Read more...] about Most Respected Leaders
Credit Unions in NevadaUpdates and Options
The days of hiding cash in buried tomato cans under the back porch are long gone. Today people have access to a variety of financial vehicles to service their hard-earned capital. Technology has undoubtedly made accessing money more convenient than ever before and financial institutions are not what they once were. With the decline in brick-and-mortar facilities, the … [Read more...] about Credit Unions in Nevada
Industry FocusCPAs
Editor’s Note: The team of Nevada Business Magazine would like to extend condolences to the family and business connections of Bryan Keller of Rubin Brown who passed away unexpectedly after press time for the December issue. The way Nevada does business has been altered by AI and perhaps no industry will be more impacted than accounting. An industry based off research, … [Read more...] about Industry Focus
Nevada’s New NormalCommercial Real Estate Office Market After COVID
When earthshaking events occur, there's often consensus that nothing will ever be the same. Followed often by everything being pretty much the same. But COVID caused a monumental shift in everything, including commercial real estate, and the effects still resonate. Back when the lockdown hit, companies scrambled to stay afloat, some changing how they did business, others … [Read more...] about Nevada’s New Normal
Digital IDsThe Death Trap of Control
We’re told digital identity is the future – fast, efficient and secure. Yet behind that polished promise lies a chilling new reality: existing pilot programs could tie digital IDs to carbon-footprint tracking, linking who you are to how you live, spend and consume. It's surveillance disguised as sustainability or security. The truth is, it is control masquerading as progress. … [Read more...] about Digital IDs
On the RoadTourism in Nevada
Technology is advancing at the speed of light as newly developed technologies lead to other discoveries, and problems inherent in discoveries lead to the development of technology-based solutions. There's a bewildering array of new out there, all of it with the potential to help or harm, depending on its use, and the humans using it. Nevada has more than 300 named mountain … [Read more...] about On the Road