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Meeting the unique healthcare needs of a rural community is, at best, difficult. Elko General Hospital, which first opened in 1921 in central Elko, had been enlarged and remodeled several times, but the need for a larger, updated facility became more apparent with each passing year. To meet this challenge, in 1998 Elko County sold the old brick building to Brentwood, … [Read more...] about Meeting the Challenges of Rural Healthcare: NNRH Serves Elko County

Notwithstanding the slower economy and weak venture capital and stock markets, Nevada is loaded with highly successful family-owned businesses approaching critical decision points. These decision points may arise from shifts in management or ownership to the next generation, retirement, need for capital to expand or remain competitive, or desire to diversify the family assets … [Read more...] about So You Want To Do A Deal … A Checklist for Business Owners

No, the U.S. Navy’s Third Fleet is not conducting a warehouse sale on the shores of Walker Lake, but the number of automobiles, trucks, vans and other service vehicles delivered as fleet sales by Nevada’s auto dealerships is on the rise in most areas of the state. "Every year for the last 10 years, business has been growing and growing," said Fleet and Commercial Sales … [Read more...] about Cars – Cheaper By the Dozen? Nevada’s Fleet Sales Climbing

Colonial Bank, a subsidiary of The Colonial BancGroup, Inc., has strategically expanded its presence in Nevada as a part of a long-term strategy of sustained, controlled, qualitative growth. Colonial came to Nevada five years ago, when it acquired Commercial Bank in Las Vegas and Interwest Bank of Reno. Two years later, Colonial acquired two locations from Wells Fargo that … [Read more...] about Colonial Bank: Expanding to Better Serve Nevada

You’re the program manager for a corporation or an entrepreneur setting out to establish your own business, and you need a facility. You’re faced with a potential headache that two aspirin won’t cure quickly: building it. Interview, interview, interview. Never go out with an architect and a set of architectural drawings and simply sign up the lowest-priced bidder. Doing your … [Read more...] about Choosing a Contractor: Look Before You Leap

Jacob Snow, general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission of Clark County and his counterpart, Greg Krauss, executive director of the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County, are not lacking work. Nevada is a hotbed of activity on the transportation front, with projects funded by state and local government, federal resources and private entities as the … [Read more...] about Keeping Nevada Moving: Transportation Projects Transform Silver State

In hopes of adding commercial customers in the private sector to its long list of public-sector clients, Target General Inc. of Nevada (TGI) changed its name to CORE Construction on November 3. The company believes the name change will eliminate the confusion revolving around TGI’s relationship with its five sister companies, and should lead to more private commercial … [Read more...] about Building Off a Name: Target General Becomes CORE Construction

"No man can serve two masters." (Matthew 6:24) Should employees of state or local governments be allowed to serve in the Nevada Legislature? The Nevada Constitution clearly says no, but a 1971 ruling by then-Attorney General Robert List allowed the practice, and it has snowballed ever since. During the 2003 Legislature, 16 of the 63 lawmakers were public employees. Nevada … [Read more...] about Serving Two Masters: The Dangers of Double-Dipping by Legislators

ComputerCorps is a non-profit organization in Carson City that refurbishes old computers and donates them to needy individuals and organizations. The group’s mission is to help people who are left out of the technology loop because they have no access to computers or training. It does this by focusing on three areas: the environment, education and entrepreneurship. … [Read more...] about ComputerCorps: Bridging the Computer Technology Gap

Keith Schwer, head of UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research, said at year-end 2003 the national economy is continuing to "gain traction," an image which brings to mind a vehicle struggling out of a deep rut. This may be as good a characterization as any of the way the economy is gradually recovering. Schwer said increased military expenditures, low interest rates and … [Read more...] about Economic Forecast 2004: Advice from the Experts

In a business climate in which growth and prosperity are the norm despite downturns in other states, local engineering firms are still facing challenges that could impact the future of Nevada. From managing growth and infrastructure to keeping up with technological advancements, the most successful firms are finding it’s all a balancing act. Kathy Smith, president of VPoint … [Read more...] about Engineering Nevada’s Future: Experts Discuss Trends and Challenges

Do you sometimes get confused about what you’re doing? Maybe you feel overwhelmed by job responsibilities and deadline pressures. If you want to feel better by comparing yourself to people who are really stressed out and mixed up, consider your taxpayer-supported Department of Taxation. Ever since the legislative session ended, these state workers have been struggling to … [Read more...] about How Much Business Tax Will You Owe? It’s Anybody’s Guess

The Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach (CAEO) at UNLV has been a quiet but prominent force in Southern Nevada since 1979. CAEO is a family of programs designed to help low-income, first generation and under-represented students in their pursuit of secondary, post-secondary and graduate educations. Although CAEO is reliant on 12 major federal grants, it … [Read more...] about CAEO at UNLV Offers: Motivation for Education

Ed Parker, American Kenpo Grandmaster, once said, "The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more." Many adults, having made their mark on the world in their current profession, decided in recent years to seek further education to enhance their current careers or to begin new ones. As these wage-earners began … [Read more...] about Back to School: Flexible Education Options for Adults

Public education is one of Nevada’s two "Billion-Dollar Babies". Education and Medicaid state budget appropriations are each written in 10 figures. Money spent on education is a political lightning rod; it supercharges elections. For decades politicians have won and lost here based on this issue. That pressure is about to be redoubled, and controversies remaining from this … [Read more...] about No Child Left Behind: A Political Lightning Rod