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"If this is how people get attention to it then great."
- Marilyn York, Attorney while concerned that the Me Too movement is getting watered down she’s pleased that the Hollywood and Political worlds are getting shaken up, especially at the top. - Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
"I will welcome Chris (Wicker DNC) to the deficit hawk caucus.
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- Tray Abney, Managing Partner, Abney Tauchen Group jokes that Democrats are finally worried about deficit spending because the Trump tax cuts are paid for by borrowing 1 ½ trillion dollars over ten years. Abney is also concerned that the Federal Reserve will put the brakes on the economy via interest rate hikes.
- Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
"The jail is very difficult and probably is our highest liability within the office.
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- Darin Balaam, Candidate, Washoe County Sheriff possibly explaining why Sheriff Chuck Allen is going to be a one term Sheriff. Balaam says if you don't have the experience of running that area, understanding all of the liability that comes with that, it is very difficult. - Monday, March 12, 2018.
"If this entire state was working on the basis of where Las Vegas is, we’re probably in good shape on water for the next hundred years.
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- Ray Bacon, Executive Director, Nevada Manufacturers Association says if you take a look at the water consumption per person and the amount of times that the water is used, that comes out of Lake Mead, in Las Vegas, water would not be an issue in most of Nevada for the next century. - Thursday, March 8, 2018.
"Elected officials, especially at the state level, who are unfamiliar with West Wendover.
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- Mayor Daniel Corona, West Wendover expressing frustration that people in Salt Lake City are far more familiar with his town than Carson City legislators.
- Wednesday, March 7, 2018.
"We’ve gotten a lot done but there’s so much more that could have been and should have been done.
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- Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach expressing pain that despite having the Congress and the White House in Republican hands, they are not necessarily conservative hands. Using the Senate’s failure to repeal Obamacare as one example. - Tuesday, March 6, 2018.
"Manufacturing was right off the charts.
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- Terry Culp, Deputy Director, Nevada Industry Excellence says that manufacturing, especially high paying clean manufacturing, is one of the areas of high growth in Southern Nevada according to a recent survey. - Monday, March 5, 2018.
"I don’t believe that but that’s what they said.
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- Susan Fisher, VP Government Affairs Group, McDonald Carano Wilson referring to Nv Energy’s claim to be neutral during the Energy Choice Initiative debate. They now plan to spend 30 million dollars to fight it. - Thursday, March 1, 2018.
"It has the potential to be one of the country’s first smart freeways.
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- Mary Beth Sewald, President & CEO, Las Vegas Metro Chamber says that the new Interstate 11 freeway between Phoenix and Las Vegas will include new technology, facilitate autonomous vehicles and it would have battery recharging lanes plus incorporate WIFI into the freeway itself. - Wednesday, February 28, 2018.
"Do not take Dean Heller for granted.
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- Former Congresswoman Shelley Berkley giving advice to Congresswoman Jacky Rosen. Berkley says she is no fan of Heller, calling him an average politician but says he is inoffensive and people will vote for someone inoffensive. - Tuesday, February 27, 2018.
"I think it’s best for Las Vegas to keep the Wynn brand and keep it moving forward.
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- Russell Rowe, Rowe Law Group reacting to a gaming analyst’s comment that Wynn Resorts might become a target of another casino company or a leverage buyout firm, that might break up the company and sell off some of the assets. - Monday, February 26, 2018.
"We have a new attitude toward working with businesses, so we have an open-door policy to work with these new companies and as a result we’re actually attracting a number of companies from the Bay Area and Chicago and elsewhere so we’re helping to stimulate the growth of this economy."
- Marc Johnson, President, UNR who says while a liberal arts education is still a big part of UNR’s mission, workforce development is now a major part of the curriculum too.
- Thursday, February 15, 2018.
"That’s the challenge we’re still working through.
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- Jeff Page, Lyon County Manager says the county is asking do they have sufficient water to satisfy the growth in the central corridor of the county which is where all the new housing is expected, as a result of the Tesla, Panasonic, Switch, Google and many more companies, locating next door in Storey County. - Wednesday, February 14, 2018.
"I agree, the budget deal was very good.
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- Marlene Lockard, Partner, The Lockard Group citing about the only thing she likes that President Trump and the Congress have done.
- Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
"I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with acknowledging that the media has changed, and society has changed, and the reception of this information now is very different than it would have been then."
- Steve Friess, Freelance Journalist referring to a story about Steve Wynn’s proclivities, by reporter Carri Geer Thevenot, that was spiked 20 years ago by the Las Vegas Review Journal and finally published recently. The former publisher and former editor both claim not to remember the story. - Monday, February 12, 2018.
"(For) anybody going into the rooms, we would like to have a safety button where they can protect themselves.
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- Geoconda Argüello-Kline, Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Union says as the union works on a new contract with the casinos, safety for all workers that go into rooms, from the maids to the people that stock the mini bars, is at the top of the list of demands. - Thursday, February 8, 2018.
