For all our talk of numbers—budget cuts and growth figures; unemployment rates and housing starts; the dollars attached to hopeful new projects and those squandered on old ones that failed—the city’s future (and the trajectory of those pesky numbers) depends on the grit and audacity of its people. The following pages will introduce you to Southern Nevadans who will, in ways both great and small, shape our community in the year ahead. You’ll meet a piano prodigy redefining what it means to be a Vegas entertainer, a transportation visionary at war with gridlock and a real estate investor who emerged from bankruptcy to build a small empire. You’ll meet educators and athletes, political movers and nightclub shakers. Like all of us, they will bring new color to a recession-faded Vegas. They are brushstrokes in a portrait of our city.
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