The Brookings Institution report last month named Nevada as one of five states that are poised to become a “new American heartland.” Rapid growth, economic and demographic changes in 5 “megametro” areas are reasons cited for this report.


Las Vegas

is among the cities named.

The region includes Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah; this region “is growing up, flexing its muscles, and distancing itself from California, which historically has had an outsized impace on the West’s development,” accoridng to the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution. Read the rest of this entry