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"(sometimes)The room rates are lower than the resort fees."
- Howard Stutz, Executive Editor, CDC Gaming Reports
Describing room rates at Circus Circus, now owned by Phil Ruffin. The sale, by MGM, gives that company cash to pay down debt and over 100 acres of strip property to Mr. Ruffin on what is now getting to be the hot spot on Las Vegas Boulevard.
- Friday, December 27, 2019.
"I’m very excited that the NCAA has changed its policies."
- State Senator, Yvanna Cancela, District 10 discussing her potential legislation with Speaker Frierson that would result in college athletes being paid a share in the profits they generate in Nevada. The NCAA has already moved in that direction. - Thursday, December 26, 2019.
"It tries to shift from incarceration to treatment."
- Assemblyman Steve Yeager, Chair, Assembly Judiciary Committee describing a portion of the criminal justice reform bill that he shepherded through the 2019 Legislative session. He says it helps look at who really needs to be in prison. It was the first major criminal justice reform bill to pass, in Nevada, in decades. - Wednesday, December 25, 2019.
"I think we would be better leaders by solving actual problems as opposed to dealing with somebody’s talking points for some future campaign."
- Jason Frierson, Speaker of the Nevada Assembly rebuking failed gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt’ s call for a special session to deal with the relationship between Nevada and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). - Tuesday, December 24, 2019.
"There’s real interest in the first commercial application of The Boring Company technology and we’re excited to have it in Vegas."
- Steve Hill, CEO/President, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority describing the interest in Elon Musk’s project to provide a people moving system below the new Las Vegas Convention Center Expansion. This will provide a test to see if this could work beyond the confines of the Convention Center and be workable throughout the Las Vegas Valley. - Friday, December 20, 2019.
"For them to go ahead and comment on this with not one call to the City Hall, not one phone call. Not one enquiry. What are you doing? Why are you doing?"
- The Honorable Carolyn Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas, NV responding to comments made by several presidential candidates on the homeless situation in her city without the benefit of any actual knowledge of the situation. The Mayor felt it was ignorant on the candidate’s parts. - Thursday, December 19, 2019.
"His comments were disappointing to me."
- Marilyn Kirkpatrick, Chairwoman, Clark County Commission, who is also the chair of the Southern Nevada Water Authority referring to comments made by Brad Crowell, Director of Nevada’s Conservation and Natural Resources board about other possibilities than a pipeline from Eastern Nevada to Las Vegas. Her point is that he should have reached out to her and then she could have pointed out the Authority’s 50-year water resource plan. Kirkpatrick is adamant that she doesn’t want to build a pipeline to Northern Nevada. - Wednesday, December 18, 2019.
"Tom Daschle is on the board with me, a Democrat, Trent Lott, Republican. Both Majority Leaders in the Senate."
- Sig Rogich, President, Rogich Communications is heading up a Track Two delegation of former government officials, electeds and appointees working with a similar Chinese delegation, to work on issues in a bi partisan way between China’s government and the US Government.
Members of the US delegation also include General Dick Myers, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mitch Daniels, now the head of Perdue University and former head of OMB. Bill Richardson, former Governor of New Mexico. Don Evans, former Secretary of Commerce and former US Senator Joe Lieberman is the co-chair.
- Tuesday, December 17, 2019.
"What is really missing from the conversation now is an emphasis on student achievement."
- Bryan Wachter, Senior VP, Retail Association of Nevada, who has declared for a seat on the Clark County Board of School Trustees says it is almost an afterthought to the other conversations that we keep having, whether it is school funding, discipline or any number of other issues. - Friday, December 13, 2019.
"3 years from now, four years from now, we may see things differently."
- Jan Jones Blackhurst, Board Director, Caesars Entertainment says that Japan is looking at three gaming licenses currently, but they could award up to seven licenses, over the coming years. So, while Eldorado Resorts is not pursuing the first round of Japanese gaming licenses, that could change in the future. - Thursday, December 12, 2019.
"Lefty Rosenthal was the only person I was ever afraid of. I was not afraid of him physically. I was afraid of what he would do."
- Former US Senator Harry Reid was the target of a bomb placed under his car by the mafia when he was the head of the Nevada Gaming Commission. - Wednesday, December 11, 2019.
"I was under a lot of threats and we took a lot of heat."
- Former Nevada Governor Robert List referring to his eventually successful efforts to get the mob out of casino ownership, in Nevada. - Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
"Competition drives down pricing."
- Heather Korbulic, Executive Director, Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, explaining why health insurance rates, in Nevada, only rose 1.6% on average. - Friday, November 22, 2019.
"Opening up the Colorado River compact is a whole can of worms."
- Kyle Roerink, Executive Director, Great Basin Water Network whose organization is in favor of exploring desalination as one of the ways to alleviate Las Vegas eventual need for more water. One of the problems is that you would have to reopen the compact to allow Nevada to draw more water from the Colorado River. - Thursday, November 21, 2019.
"I would say 95% of the Turks are in favor of what he’s done."
- Jill Derby, Former Democratic State Party Chair, while disagreeing with the actions of the Trump administration regarding the Syrian Kurds, Ms. Derby agrees that from a Turkish domestic policy position, President Erdogan made the right decision with his military incursion into Northern Syria. - Wednesday, November 20, 2019.
"If we produce goods in Northern Nevada and we are going to ship them overseas and they get stuck in traffic over on the other side, how quickly do we lose our competitive advantage, our comparable advantage in being able to sustain our manufacturing base?"
- Lee Gibson, Executive Director, RTC of Washoe County discussing the need to widen Interstate 80 in Nevada and California and to get California to help pay for their portion of it, because it makes financial sense for them too. - Tuesday, November 19, 2019.
