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...Belt giants as Phoenix and Houston has been under way for years, what's new is that the hottest places in America to find jobs are small and midsize towns, and not all of them are in the warmer latitudes. Burgs ranging from Fargo, N.D., to Fayetteville, Ark., to Reno, Nev., are leading the U.S. in job gains. The Milken Institute, a private think tank, found in its annual ranking of cities with the most job growth that 11 of the top 20 had populations well under 1 million. The Fort Myers region (pop. 420,000) added...
...Reno has a special advantage in its geography--it is smack against the California border and treats its high-cost, highly regulated neighbor the way a hummingbird does a flower. From 2000 to 2003, Reno has lapped up major operations of 17 California companies including Sun Microsystems and Charles Schwab, according to the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada, in addition to the 700,000-sq.-ft. distribution facility Amazon.com set up in 1999 and the third roasting-and-distribution center Starbucks opened. Microsoft, Dell and Pfizer all have operations there. An estimated 200,000 people migrate from California...
...them. PC Doctor, his diagnostic software company based in Emeryville, Calif., was mushrooming with clients like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Intel--but state taxes and high costs were a drag on growth. He spent a year checking out Seattle, Phoenix and Las Vegas, then bet on Reno. His employees took some persuading. Mohidul Saad, 38, a software engineer, learned of the impending move this past summer. The Bangladeshi native and his family had grown attached to their ethnic community in the Bay Area and thought of Reno as a dust-choked gambling town. They have since changed their minds. Weeks...
Landing a job for the "trailing spouse" can also be a bigger issue in a smaller town. When Gary Hengstler, 56, was offered a job as director of Reno's National Center for Courts and Media, a training facility for judges and court personnel, his wife hesitated. The move meant that Laura, 48, would have to leave her job as real-estate editor at the Chicago Sun-Times--not to mention their friends and family. But a few visits persuaded her, and now she edits an in-flight magazine. Their only worry about Reno, says Gary: "I'm afraid...
According to the story, Linder protested initially, but after meeting with associate athletic director Frank Araneo, he saw the administration’s perspective and later told the Daily Sun, “We have dignitaries coming to these games, Janet Reno comes to these games, Congressmen coming to these games, that sort of thing...