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"In the first half of this year we assisted with 3800 jobs in Nevada."
- Steve Hill, Governor’s Office of Economic Development, who says that a couple of years ago only 1000 jobs were assisted, for the whole year. - Wednesday, August 28, 2013.
"Citizen’s boards are good for reviews. Citizen’s boards are good to look at things, but a lot of times they reach a decision that we may not agree with. "
- Washoe County DA, Dick Gammick, defending Sheriff Doug Gillespie’s decision regarding the Use of Force Review Board, when he opted not to terminate an officer the board had recommended firing. - Tuesday, August 27, 2013.
"Everybody rolls their eyes when I first show up."
- Bruce Breslow, Director Business and Industry, who says that divisions like OSHA need to not have a predisposed idea that they are there to write tickets. Rather, they are there to help businesses. - Monday, August 26, 2013.
"There are numerous different philosophies about how to go about this. There is yet to be a truly proven model that has come to the lead to say this is the way to do this so I think it’s in the exploratory phase.
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- Troy Dillard, Director NV DMV, discussing the potential VMT tax that Governor Sandoval has asked to be explored before the 2015 Legislative session. - Thursday, August 22, 2013.
"I think it’s going to be a blow, personally but that papers’ been hanging on, just hanging on and I’m surprised its survived this far."
- Guy Rocha, Former Nevada State Archivist commenting on the potential demise of the Las Vegas Sun, whose founder Hank Greenspun was such a legendary character in Nevada journalism history. - Wednesday, August 21, 2013.
"The one constant has been the military’s ability to protect its own power and it seems pretty clear to me from looking at the commentary around this issue that it was the military’s dissatisfaction with the politically elected government that led to this coup or non-coup or quasi coup or whatever you want to call it.
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- Attorney Lucas Foletta describing the military’s role in ousting the elected government in Egypt and the difficulty the US Government has in even figuring out what to call the takeover due to the potential ramifications for the US and its interests in the region. - Tuesday, August 20, 2013.
"I think that’s going to be an important discussion and that’s already taking place.
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- Jeff Fontaine, Nevada Association of Counties, whose members are looking at the possibility of local funding, for entities like Western Nevada and Great Basin Colleges. Both took major financial hits from the new funding formulas set out by the Board of Regents. - Monday, August 19, 2013.
"Whether you call yourself a Libertarian, an Independent, a Democrat or Republican or whatever, it’s like the proper policy for the Country is still something you want to achieve and right now that’s the source of a heck of a lot of controversy and elbowing.
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- Congressman Mark Amodei, commenting on the recent defection of a number of Republicans in Nevada, to the American Independent Party.
- Thursday, August 15, 2013.
"He’s been all over the map. He’s for the Senate bill. He’s against it. He’s for comprehensive. He’s against it. He voted to defund the Dreamer bill but says it was a matter of process.
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- Congresswoman Dina Titus, Calling for Congressman Joe Heck to make a hard decision on immigration reform and then once he does that, all the AFL-CIO and other demonstrators will leave him be.
- Wednesday, August 14, 2013.
"To actually be contacted by the New York Times, my head was about four times bigger than it normally is.
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- Legendary Reno Gazette-Journal photographer Marilyn Newton, celebrating 50 years working for the newspaper with no plans to retire, discussing the first time her work was published in the New York Times.
- Tuesday, August 13, 2013.
"Caesars, even though they seem to be in a position where they need to sell assets, pay down debt, they don’t seem to be that willing to selling at fire sale prices.
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- Mike Alonso, Attorney Lewis and Roca, while admitting that Native American Casino owners might be interested in buying gaming properties at Lake Tahoe, as they have in Atlantic City, the price of admittance may be too high.
- Monday, August 12, 2013.
"I would have them look at the whole process of the agreements that we‘ve gone through up here and maybe be a little bit more conservative in the projections in terms of the revenue agreements."
- Elisa Cafferata, Candidate for Reno City Council, with advice for the local government bodies in Clark County who have been asked to be involved with the 51’s AAA baseball team who want to move the team to a new stadium in Summerlin. One of the benefits the Reno City Council gained was the right to hold 12 special events per year in the Ace’s ballpark. - Thursday, August 8, 2013.
"There’s a book I came across, at UNR, that talks about Nevada in 1960, looking back. And it’s interesting because they talk about gaming, aerospace and defense as being the sectors that will help grow Nevada."
- Jeff Hardcastle, Nevada State demographer, who says that in 2013 we are still talking about gaming, aerospace and defense as being the industries that will help grow Nevada.
- Wednesday, August 7, 2013.
"A lot of people will believe that and its had the desired effect but It seems to me way over the top to be talking about a whole month worth of travel restriction and it has scared people to death and you know fear works, we know that."
- Jill Derby, Cultural Anthropologist, discussing the Obama administrations claims that it recorded high level “chatter” between the leader of Al Qaida and Al Qaida in Iraq that has resulted in the shutdown of embassies and consulates around the globe at the same time the NSA national surveillance is being debated in Congress. - Tuesday, August 6, 2013.
"I know some businesses who work next door to the state government and they will tell you they can definitely see a reduction in trade on the furlough days.
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- Mayor Bob Crowell, Carson City, who is hopeful that state furloughs will be ended in the near future.
- Monday, August 5, 2013.
"Going into neighborhoods and making sure that there’s the education system is fair, to make sure that the criminal justice system is just. To make sure that laws don’t impact one community more than another because those are the things we face now."
- Verita Black Prothro, who says these points are the beginning of starting a long overdue discussion of race in America. - Thursday, August 1, 2013.
