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"It adversely affects your driving and your perception and your driving skills, Yes.
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- Washoe County DA Dick Gammick, who says that one beer or one scotch is too much if you’re driving and the current limits on alcohol don’t reflect that, due to political considerations.
- Thursday, September 12, 2013.
"(Laughing) I suppose that we couldn’t issue ourselves positive grades for those bills having passed.
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- Geoffrey Lawrence, Deputy Director of Policy NPRI, responding to a question about NPRI issuing a report grading the Legislature and the Governor while at the same time none of NPRI’s initiatives gained any traction during the Legislative session. - Wednesday, September 11, 2013.
"So we think, right now, we have the tail wagging the dog with the moderates in Nevada’s top levels of government.
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- Chuck Muth, President Citizen Outreach, who feels the Republican moderates, should have a place at the table, just not the head of the table.
- Tuesday, September 10, 2013.
"They spent about an hour and a half of total actual public hearing time at the state level on this issue. They’ve already spent almost 12 hours at the County level, pouring through the budgets, asking tough questions, asking for certain accountability measures to be put in place and we’re only at half time."
- Jill Tolles, “Say Yes for Kids” Committee, who is convinced that sending the Washoe County School District’s taxing authority to the Washoe County Commission is not only constitutional but is allowing far more oversight than it would have ever gotten at the State Legislature. - Monday, September 9, 2013.
"We get petitions for driver’s license revocation reviews. We get writ petitions from inmates who question the quality of their food or the condition of their jeans. Along with cases as serious as death penalty cases. "
- Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty on the need for a Court of Appeals for many reasons including the fact the Delaware may get businesses who were contemplating moving to Nevada because Delaware has a better functioning justice system. - Thursday, September 5, 2013.
"Sure, they say all kinds of things, but we continue to see the ocean levels rise. They’ve risen, globally, by over 8 inches in the last hundred years and a lot of that’s just because of the warming of the planet."
- Dr. Doug Boyle, Nevada State Climatologist, who does not take seriously global warming skeptics who say that global warming ceased about 15 years ago. - Wednesday, September 4, 2013.
"My reading of the experts is that I think Perini almost even came to a middle ground and said, tentatively agreed, it may be best just to tear it down. It’s so far gone that it just couldn’t be repaired. "
- Richard Campbell, Managing Partner, Armstrong Teasdale, discussing the MGM’s Harmon Hotel that Perini Construction thought initially could be repaired for a relatively small amount is now going to be imploded after Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez’s ruling on the matter. - Tuesday, September 3, 2013.
"Young people, well it would surprise you, even professionals, often do not use the kind of discretion they need to, because once it’s out, it's out."
- Dr. Maria Sheehan, President Truckee Meadows Community College, commenting on the sometimes totally inappropriate remarks people are making on social media sites like Facebook. - Thursday, August 29, 2013.
"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.
