In our continuing quest to stress how we must diversify our economy, In Business Las Vegas published a question and answer article with Mike Skaggs on just this topic:
The diversification of Nevada’s economy always seems to come up when times are bad, as in, “The reason things are so bad in our state is that we’re too dependent on the gaming industry.”
Mike Skaggs, Executive Director of the Nevada Economic Commission (photo by Steve Marcus)
Mike Skaggs, executive director of the Nevada Economic Development Commission, knows that all too well, having devoted most of his career to working to diversify one economy or another. He heads the state’s economic development effort, focusing on a diversified economic base.
Skaggs talked with In Business Las Vegas about the challenges of economic diversification, the state’s biggest rivals for recruiting businesses and the roadblocks to getting companies to consider Nevada for their operations.
Read the article here
By Richard N. Velotta (contact), In Business reporter
He sums up what we’ve been stressing over and over in this newsletter:
We have to stay the course. In the past, we’ve gone through one of these and the hospitality industry came back with, “OK, never mind, we don’t need to do this anymore.” Well, we do. We have to make this a permanent, long-term commitment to get this thing diverse so we never go through this again.
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