Displaying: 2129 to 2144 of 3566
"By educating an ever growing proportion of the population and giving them a professional experience of working with people across races. "
- Marc Johnson President, University of Nevada, who says that educating more people will breakdown stereotypes and allow all races and religions to work together. President Johnson was responding to President Obama’s comments on race. - Wednesday, July 24, 2013.
"A million and a half. Maybe two million dollars."
- State Senator Mark Hutchison, and candidate for Lt. Governor, estimating how much it would cost to run for Lt. Governor. The Senator says that he and Governor Sandoval have not discussed the 2016 election cycle where Sandoval has been frequently mentioned as the potential opponent to US Senator Harry Reid. - Tuesday, July 23, 2013.
"Probably not much, if anything.
"
- Fred Lokken, Political Science Professor, TMCC, on the chances of getting an updated version of the Voting Rights Act through the Republican House of Representatives, that was suggested by the recent US Supreme Court decision.
- Thursday, July 4, 2013.
"I don’t necessarily see marijuana as a gateway drug."
- Former Metro Narcotics Police Lt, Blake Quackenbush, who thinks that people who have addictive personalities might start off with booze but if marijuana weren’t available they might move to more dangerous drugs. He would like to see a federal standard for marijuana use. - Wednesday, July 3, 2013.
"If you really want to go work on voting rights, they were calling Massachusetts out as an example of a state that wasn’t on the list that had almost no minority office holders."
- US Congressman Mark Amodei, CD 2, whose colleagues from the 15 states formerly affected by the Voting Rights Act, are rather proud of the record they have, with the number of minority office holders elected in their states.
- Tuesday, July 2, 2013.
"Countries spying on each other is maybe as old as mankind."
- Former State Archivist Guy Rocha, who says that George Washington ran covert operation with spies giving him information on the British. - Monday, July 1, 2013.
"There’s not a whole lot of interest on the Commission in passing taxes that result in no oversight.
"
- Marsha Berkbigler, Washoe County Commissioner, who has great concerns on the lack of oversight over the Washoe County School Board, the way the Commission is reading the law currently that allows the County Commission the ability to raise taxes for the local school district.
- Thursday, June 27, 2013.
"In reality, sometimes there is some downtime for the lawmakers cos the staff are going crazy trying to get everything done.
"
- Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review Journal, explaining why there was time, on the last official day of the Legislative session, for lawmakers to spend time praising Assemblywoman Peggy Pierce and Lt Governor Brian Krolicki.
- Wednesday, June 26, 2013.
"Is it going to continue? There doesn’t seem like anything that’s going to stop it right now.
"
- Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review Journal, commenting on the continued double digit growth in gaming revenues in Macau this year. He says that the Chinese Government is increasing access to Macau from the Chinese mainland. Last year’s Macau gaming revenue was 38 billion dollars. - Tuesday, June 25, 2013.
"Teaching them something is one thing. Keeping them alive is more important.
"
- Howard Rosenberg, Washoe County School Board, referring to the 2500 homeless school children in Reno and a larger number in Las Vegas who skew the education numbers, in surveys, in terms of graduation. Rosenberg says statistics can be manipulated. - Monday, June 24, 2013.
"Change the Assembly from 2 to 4 years, Senate from 4 to 6 years."
- Former State Senator Randolph Townsend who says as a matter of public policy, the Legislative session should be 16 months after the election cycle not right after, to allow freshman to understand the issues they’ll be voting on and the terms should be extended. - Wednesday, June 12, 2013.
"In my opinion, it’s going to destroy mining in Nevada."
- Assemblyman Ira Hansen, who says taking the constitutional protection mining enjoys, away, will signify the end of mining as we know it in the Silver State.
- Tuesday, June 11, 2013.
"This is just a bad idea. It’s going to have a devastating effect on business and business activity. The fact that it’s even on the ballot has had an influence on business activity here and those who were looking to Nevada.
"
- State Senator Mark Hutchison, who is firmly opposed to the Teacher’s Margin Tax
- Wednesday, June 5, 2013.
"Last night was one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen.
"
- Mary Lau, President and CEO Retail Association of Nevada, describing the final minutes of the closing of the regular session of the 2013 State Legislature.
- Tuesday, June 4, 2013.
"We started in again, we got a better bill. We started working it during the campaign. Educating candidates about it.
"
- State Senator Debbie Smith, revealing the amount of work that was done educating officials on DNA testing, during the interim, that resulted in Brianna’s Law passing this session.
- Monday, June 3, 2013.
"Those type of topics, in the past, we would say one thing and they would say well no, we don’t need full day kindergarten, we don’t need ELL.
"
- Senate Majority Leader Mo Denis, who says that now Democrats and Republicans, regarding topics like education, are in more agreement regarding how much do we do and when do we do it.
- Thursday, May 30, 2013.
