In The News: Lee Business School

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The Vegas Golden Knights' season has ended, and now, sports fans are turning their attention to the Raiders.

Tri-County Times Newspaper

With Tax Day approaching on Monday, April 15, taxes are at the top of the news right now.

The Atlantic

Uniqlo was founded in 1984 in Hiroshima, Japan, as the Unique Clothing Warehouse—an ironic name for a manufacturer known for clothing that is in no way unique.

Vegas Inc

Lakeside Weddings & Events donated 168 bags filled with toiletries to the Shade Tree.

Las Vegas Sun

In a legislative session in which Democrats dominate, one stereotypically progressive issue hasn’t garnered much attention yet — raising the state’s minimum wage.

Fox News

Democratic presidential hopefuls are hitting the campaign trail touting their plans to better the economy while pushing for a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour. But is it a promise they can keep — or simply political rhetoric?

Las Vegas Review Journal

If you haven’t heard of Blink Fitness yet, you will soon.

Las Vegas Review Journal

UNLV’s Lee Business School announced its new members of the Alumni Board of Directors. The group is comprised of notable business and community leaders, led by incoming President D.J. Allen of Xs & Os of Success.

Builder

The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the collegiate teams that will be competing in the Solar Decathlon Build Challenge. Student participants work during a two-year period to design and build complete, functional houses that are powered by renewable energy and demonstrate creative solutions to current issues in the industry. Winners will be selected in the summer of 2020 in Washington, D.C., as part of the 2020 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

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UNLV was one of just 11 universities worldwide chosen to compete in the 2020 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The international contest challenges university student teams to design, build and operate solar-powered homes that are energy-efficient, affordable and attractive.

CityLab

When the bottom fell out of the mortgage market in the run-up to the Great Recession, Las Vegas homeowners found themselves at the epicenter of a catastrophe. Nearly one in four who bought new homes at the housing market’s peak in 2007 fell into foreclosure. For buyers of existing homes, whose values plunged even more dramatically, default claimed closer to half. Nevada led the nation in foreclosures for 62 straight months during the Great Recession.

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As the Super Bowl week is well underway in Atlanta, many people are making comparisons between the current host city and Vegas.