The NSBDC recently published its Summer 2007 study “An Econometric Study of the Economic Impacts of NxLeveL:  Examining the Economic Impact of the NxLeveL Entrepreneurial Training Program in Nevada”.  The study effectively demonstrates how important Nevada small businesses are to the state’s larger economy and how small business entrepreneurial programs, such as NxLeveL, are important […]

Here’s a book that I highly recommend to anyone interested in Local Economic Development Issues:
“Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice” 3rd Edition by Edward J Blakely and Ted K Bradshaw.

This book is one of the required texts for one of my classes this semester here at USC - Policy Planning and Development […]

Here are some of the primary findings of the regional “homeless study” recently completed by a group of researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Major Costs by Service Provider in JUST ONE YEAR:

Washoe County Detention Facility: $757,352
Judicial Systems in Northern Nevada: $1,155,389
Project ReStart: $2,034,330
Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services: $689,113
St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center: $1,630,195
Renown […]

About a year and a half ago, the NSBDC, along with several colleagues from the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Business, Orvis School of Nursing, Department of Geography, School of Medicine, College of Agriculture and the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies began a “regional homeless” study for Washoe County.  Nearly 800 plus pages […]

Alright, I’ll admit it.  There’s nothing “sexy” about fiscal policy.  There’s a reason why taxes are compared to death when we speak about the “certainties” of life.  Any time one begins to talk about taxes and fiscal policy, most people glaze over.  All they know is that they don’t like them!  Well, unfortunately, or fortunately […]

Well, everyone’s talking about the latest-greatest “big deal” for downtown Reno. So I figured I’d kick in my two cents. The City of Reno, the Reno Redevelopment Agency, SK Baseball and Nevada Land eeked out a tight October 1st deadline to complete one of the more complicated deals the City has seen in […]

In 1918 Romanzo Adams published “Taxation in Nevada, A History”. In his forward, Adams wrote, “The subject of taxation is not necessarily so abstract and technical that it is devoid of interest to the ordinary citizen. This monograph is written, not primarily for the specialist, but for the citizen, and the writer has tried […]