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"Eventually that got the attention of sponsors."
- Robert Rippee, International Gaming Institute, UNLV describing the birth of eSports as one Internet Café competing with another Internet Café, in South Korea, in competitive computer gaming. Now it could become a huge part of the US casino gaming business. - Thursday, October 8, 2020.
"That was a bit of a lift, particularly on some of our smaller operators."
- Tyre Gray, President, Nevada Mining Association on Mining prepaying its taxes to help with the state budget shortfall. Mr. Gray says that some of the bills targeting Mining in the special session could be seen as attacks, he says the Association sees them as bills they could have had more discussion about. - Wednesday, October 7, 2020.
"It will be devastating."
- Congresswoman Dina Titus CD 1 discussing the likelihood of Amy Coney Barrett ascending to the US Supreme Court. The judge’s written comments on the ACA heads up the Congresswoman’s concerns. - Tuesday, October 6, 2020.
"I would hope so but I’m not necessarily, particularly hopeful."
- US Senator Jacky Rosen regarding another aid package from the Federal government said that local and state government in Nevada need the bipartisan financial aid to provide essential services to their communities. - Friday, October 2, 2020.
"The American people were the ones who lost because they certainly didn’t hear very much policy discussion but the way they won was by seeing the contrast between Donald Trump and Joe Biden."
- Congresswoman Dina Titus, CD 1 reflecting on the first Presidential debate of 2020. - Thursday, October 1, 2020.
"We have had those thoughts and those discussions.” He said, “But being a public company, I'm not going to say."
- Gary L. Carano, Exec Chairman of the Board of Directors, Caesars Entertainment, on the idea of forming an airline rather than just relying on charter flights to bring customers to Caesar’s properties around the country. - Wednesday, September 30, 2020.
"That is an instant offense as far as revenue is concerned."
- Gary L. Carano, Exec Chairman of the Board of Directors, Caesars Entertainment referring to the Caesars Rewards program now combined with the former Eldorado Resorts program has more than 60 million members. - Tuesday, September 29, 2020.
"We should be looking at those areas where there is already bipartisan support and incorporating those into a stimulus package. It is not happening right now."
- US Senator Catherine Cortez Masto bemoaning the lack of movement on another stimulus package. - Friday, September 25, 2020.
"In Clark County, I just spoke with the superintendent this last week, and 25,000 students still have not connected with the school district, one way or another this year."
- Congressman Steven Horsford, CD4 said that lack of broadband access has been a constant problem in rural Nevada, yet it is also a concern in Nevada's urban school districts. - Thursday, September 24, 2020.
"Are you trying to prove you've got the biggest club in the state?"
- Congressman Mark Amodei, CD2 referring to the threat by Governor Sisolak, now rescinded, of clawing back funds from Douglas County, from the Cares Act, for allowing President Trump to hold his rally at the Minden Airport. - Wednesday, September 23, 2020.
"The Federal government will probably never pay back the debt that it has."
- Eugenia Larmore, PhD, MBA, President, Ekay Economic Consultants says that all the government will end up paying is the service on the debt, the interest. Ms. Larmore added that this one-time spending was what we needed to have done for the economy. - Tuesday, September 22, 2020.
"We took every possible precaution that we could."
- Don Ahern, President and CEO, Ahern Equipment Rentals who also owns the Ahern Hotel and Convention Center where the “Evangelicals for Trump” event was held in Las Vegas. Mr. Ahern was subsequently sued by the state for holding the event and now is countersuing. Ahern contends that masks were available and social distancing was observed along with the highest sanitizing standards. - Friday, September 18, 2020.
"Who the heck wants to be home with their spouse or anyone."
- Marilyn York, Men’s Rights Attorney says she’s seeing a higher level of divorce, separation and acrimony, in her law practice. - Thursday, September 17, 2020.
"We’re seeing an increased level of suicide."
- Debra March, Mayor of Henderson, NV talking about the need to open up places of worship, among other places, to allow people to talk about the issues they are facing during this pandemic lockdown. - Wednesday, September 16, 2020.
"It’s absolutely a major economic engine for us, for sure."
- Paul Moradkhan, Senior VP, Government Relations, The Vegas Chamber discussing the loss, this year, of the National Finals Rodeo, to Texas. It normally sells out all ten nights and packs the town during a normally slow time in December. It is scheduled to return to Las Vegas in 2021. - Tuesday, September 15, 2020.
"Without that level of transparency there will always be suspicion that the wrong decisions are being made."
- State Senator Ben Kieckhefer, District 16 says that the Nevada Executive Branch is not releasing the information about where the hotspots are and what is causing outbreaks of coronavirus. - Friday, September 11, 2020.
