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"We have to get kids prepared to be able to take their rightful place in highly skilled jobs of the future.
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- Dr. Dana Ryan, Director WCSD Signature Academies & Career and Technical Education, who says lots of people, are knocking on the Academies doors needing students who are prepared to enter the skilled workforce. - Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
"I guess if you want to look at investment in education 20 years from now to getting back to where we were that’s a great path to take.
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- Nevada State Education Association President Ruben Murillo says that Governor Sandoval’s approach to adding money to the education budget each biennium is too slow in the face of the 800 million dollars that was cut out of school budgets during the Great Recession. President Murillo says the 500 million dollars the governor added last session, while appreciated, was just a drop in the bucket. - Tuesday, April 8, 2014.
"I’m much more concerned with what Congress does with the public dollars that they’ve taken from us than what somebody does with their own money that they’ve made, going the other direction."
- Tray Abney, The Chamber (Reno/Sparks) in support of the recent US Supreme Court decision that allows individuals to support as many candidates as they like, financially, as the court removed the financial cap. - Monday, April 7, 2014.
"So if they’ve shown that they’ve already had access to that type of information or that they haven’t been convicted of a crime of dishonesty or a breach in trust, then they’ve met the standards of the Nevada law."
- Alexia Emmermann, Insurance Counsel for the NV Dept. of Insurance explaining that despite the fact that at least ten Obamacare Navigators for the state had felony records, there had not been any problems since the program began. - Thursday, April 3, 2014.
"They could have had a second companion initiative that would have obligated the spending of that money to education.
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- Attorney Jim Wadhams, who says that there is a flaw in the Education Initiative that would allow Legislators a way to remove any additional tax monies from the DSA and allow that money to be spent elsewhere, apart from education. - Wednesday, April 2, 2014.
"He demonstrated how little he does know about foreign policy.
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- Marlene Lockard, The Lockard Group going after Governor Chris Christie’s gaff at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas. The Governor used the term Occupied Territories. A no no to the RYC. - Tuesday, April 1, 2014.
"We felt that if we included language that would prevent the Legislature from taking money out of the education budget, once all the revenues generated by the Margins Tax is deposited into the DSA, we would run afoul of the single subject requirement. "
- Lynn Warne, former President of the Nevada State Education Association on how a loophole for Legislators exists within the Education Initiative.
- Monday, March 31, 2014.
"It’s a really interesting circus right now.
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- Michael Hillerby, Kaempfer Crowell, who says that his law firm has medical marijuana clients in both Southern and Northern Nevada.
- Thursday, March 27, 2014.
"I’m not endorsing anybody.
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- Former Republican National Committeeman James Smack says that Sue Lowden is really starting to sound like the stronger candidate for Lt. Governor.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2014.
"For Republicans, they go into the (voting) booth and say, well I just have to make a call here. I’m going to have to pick who’s going to be the best person to serve under Governor Sandoval.
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- Sean Whaley Reporter Las Vegas Review-Journal who agrees that both Republican candidates for LT. Governor have baggage, going into the Primary.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
"There’s been talk about arming teachers. No. I’m sorry.
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- Washoe County School Board Trustee Howard Rosenberg who says unless the weapons are non-lethal, like mace, pepper spray, something like that.
- Monday, March 24, 2014.
"Just the discussion of the margins tax has got businesses that were thinking of moving here saying, you know what, we’re gonna wait. We’re going to see how this unfolds before we come here."
- State Senator James Settlemeyer who says that Nevada is facing a similar problem to California where a discussion of a carbon tax on cattle, is causing ranchers to contemplate moving out of state. - Thursday, March 20, 2014.
"He’s got a lot of money. Anybody that’s interested in being Governor thinks, well I’ll take a pass and wait till next term. I think that’s the simple explanation.
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- Chris Wicker, Spokesman for the Washoe Dems on why the Democrats don’t have serious challenger for Governor Sandoval.
- Wednesday, March 19, 2014.
"And nobody sued.
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- Mary Lau, President of the Retail Association of Nevada, who says that’s the reason that the split role property tax has remained constitutional. No one wants to be the one who would raise taxes on homeowners from a 3% cap to the 8% cap which is imposed on businesses. - Tuesday, March 18, 2014.
"That falls on the Legislature and it also falls on the Governor. Not showing the leadership to finally address these problems.
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- Assemblyman David Bobzien who says that everyone always says the state needs more funding, yet the Governor and the Legislature always fail to come up with a funding package that can overcome the 2/3rds majority vote on taxes. - Monday, March 17, 2014.
"What are regulations on a four year old? What kind of standards are you going to put on a four year old? And what if he doesn’t meet those standards, are you going to kick him out of kindergarten?
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- Randi Thompson, Political Analyst discussing proposed standards for Pre-K in Nevada.
- Thursday, March 13, 2014.
