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"If you cashed your check you got two drink tokes and it was free."
- Gary Raffanelli, Entertainer discussing the 1970’s lounge scene where major entertainers played the casino lounges and the main room entertainers would be in the audience after their own shows. Back then comedians like Jay Leno could be enjoyed for $5 or less, per show. This was before corporate ownership of casinos shut that down. - Thursday, September 10, 2020.
"They didn’t want to go there. It was a company choice, not a state choice."
- Lance Gilman, Partner/Broker Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in answer to Robert Lang’s appearance on Nevada Newsmakers saying that the Tesla Gigafactory should have gone to Southern Nevada not Northern Nevada because the majority of the funding that allowed for the incentives came from Southern Nevada. - Wednesday, September 9, 2020.
"I thought that was inappropriate and has nothing to do with how our resources are allocated."
- Chris Wicker, Former Democratic National Committeeman responding to Robert Lang’s appearance on Nevada Newsmakers where among several charges of Northern Nevada bias over Southern Nevada, he suggested that part of the problem was a racial divide where Northern Nevada is whiter than Southern Nevada and that’s one of the reasons the North does better in economic development and higher education funding. - Tuesday, September 8, 2020.
"This is putting them in a horrible position, they’ve gone 6 months now without receiving any rental income."
- Chris Bishop, President, Nevada Realtors while concerned about the health of renters, is worried that with the rental collection moratorium being extended through the end of the year, rental homeowners are going to suffer serious financial consequences. - Friday, September 4, 2020.
"We’re obviously nervous."
- Tick Segerblom, Clark County Commissioner, District E points out that civil unrest is a concern on election night, but he is more concerned about election turnout and making sure everyone has a chance to vote. - Thursday, September 3, 2020.
"It’s going to tap into very high potential renewable areas that don’t currently have access to the grid, for development."
- Carolyn C. Barbash, VP, Transmission Development & Policy, NV Energy adds that Greenlink Nevada is also going to provide 4000 much need jobs in Nevada during construction, through 2031. - Wednesday, September 2, 2020.
"No one told Boeing, hey, we will give you a deal to build the 787s in Seattle but you've got to do the air frames out in Spokane."
- Robert Lang, Director, The Lincy Institute, Director, Brookings Mountain West says Switch was poached from Las Vegas, through an incentive that required a number of jobs be in Reno or the incentives would not kick in. - Tuesday, September 1, 2020.
"The problem with curbside and high-end retail is you don’t exactly go curbside to buy a $2000 handbag."
- Josh Gross, Publisher, Beverly Hills Weekly says that high end shoppers want the in-store shopping experience. Beverly Hills is having the same issues as Las Vegas with shopping, hotels tourism and the lack of foreign tourists. - Friday, August 28, 2020.
"Whatever you need, I’m on the team."
- State Senator, Yvanna Cancela, District 10 told VP Biden during the primary that she believes in two pillars of democracy, leadership and loyalty, and that’s why she’s supporting him over all the other initial candidates on the Democratic side. - Thursday, August 27, 2020.
"That’s not everybody that wants it to be a Jewish state."
- Jill Derby, Former Democratic State Party Chair says that Israel may eventually move into a single state solution for the Palestinians where they would eventually become the majority because of their birthrate. That would mean Israel would no longer be a majority Jewish state. This is Ms. Derby’s thinking, but it is not a majority opinion, at this time. - Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
"There really seems to be not a lot of rhyme or reason in how these lines and boundaries are cut and we’re seeing the economy suffer greatly."
- Mackenzie Warren, Attorney and Vice President, Govt Affairs, McDonald Carano discussing the moratorium being lifted on commercial property owners back in June but not on residential property owners. She’s asking what’s the logic? - Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
"I had business owners tell me "I got a visit and we were all good but they were probing for, 'Can you rat out your friends?'"
- Assemblywoman Jill Tolles (R), District 25 describing incidents reported to her by businesses who had been visited by state OSHA inspectors. - Friday, August 21, 2020.
"We should want prosecutors and defense attorneys to be serving in the Legislature."
- Steve Yeager, Chairman, Assembly Judiciary Committee is not concerned, in the cash bail hearings, about conflicts of interest with public employees serving in the Legislature. He says we need citizen legislators with real world experience. - Thursday, August 20, 2020.
"There’s got to be an investment and an investment quick(ly) to bring up another system."
- Former State Senator Patricia Farley who is angry that she received a false notice of unemployment for herself while others with legitimate claims for unemployment monies can’t get a callback. - Wednesday, August 19, 2020.
"The whole session was about delivering to the base of the far-left party."
- State Senator Scott Hammond (R) District 18 describing the recently concluded 2nd Special Session of the Legislature - Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
"Competition is the only thing that will keep our cost down."
- Jim Marchant - Republican Candidate for CD 4 is looking for a free market solution to Obamacare. - Friday, August 7, 2020.
