Nevada

A tier of retail exists that most of the country has never had reason to know about -- not because it costs too much, but because the stores themselves were never nearby. And for…

By 2005, real language-processing companies existed in Las Vegas, a Boston suburb, Pittsburgh, and a small city outside Salt Lake City -- not one of them in Silicon Valley. Each…

Nevada built an entire city from scratch in 1931 just to house Hoover Dam's workforce. In 2014, the state gave Tesla $1.3 billion to build a different kind of power plant -- the…