I thank Brian Greenspun for allowing me to again steer this column for a day. It’s an honor to be entrusted with this seat and to share thoughts with and about the community that I embrace so dearly.

On the plane, after a debaucherous weekend in Las Vegas, or after a tamer mid-week convention, you might look down at the neon and twinkling sprawl and sigh.

To the list of the nation's summer disasters including floods, fires, and drought you can add a $30 million budget hole in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

Heather Wilson is one of the best Republican candidates, and is running one of the best campaigns for the Senate, anywhere in the country, the experts say.

It’s not going to create a Higgs Boson particle, but Gov. Brian Sandoval’s twin desires to not raise taxes and diversify the economy might be colliding.

The economies in Metropolitan areas in the Mountain West region are recovering at a good pace but unemployment still remains high in Las Vegas and across the entire state of Nevada. That's according to a new report from Brookings Mountain West at UNLV. Is Nevada keeping up with the region? And what needs to be done to keep pace with our neighbors in places like Arizona, Colorado and Utah?

Las Vegas ranked in the bottom third in economic recovery among the nation’s 100 largest cities during the first quarter, a report released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution shows.

Even in good times, North Las Vegas struggled to be taken seriously. Now, with a projected $33 million budget shortfall, the city’s ability to deliver basic municipal services is threatened.

For most of the past decade, North Las Vegas was one of the fastest-growing cities in America.

Lately, almost all the action in the 2012 campaign has been in the eastern half of the country. But don't forget the West.