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"It’s still going to be difficult to put that budget together with Medicaid growth, growth in K12 and Higher ED. They’re working under a budget right now that has furloughs."
- Andrew Clinger, Reno City Manager and former State Budget Director, who says despite Governor Sandoval’s intention of keeping the taxes that should have been sunsetted, the State still faces huge financial issues going forward. - Tuesday, August 14, 2012.
"If you gave Brian Sandoval a billion and a half dollar bank to say go create some jobs in Nevada, I’m wondering if he couldn’t have created more than 137 jobs."
- Congressman Mark Amodei, who says that the billion and a half dollar loan guarantees, provided by the Federal Government, to Nevada green energy projects, has been at a cost of 22 million dollars per long term job. - Monday, August 13, 2012.
"Over a million cars a month are going by Boomtown casino."
- Dean Dilullo, CEO, M1 Gaming and new owner of Boomtown Reno, who says that his property is perfectly suited for both the drive in and locals markets in Northern Nevada. - Thursday, July 26, 2012.
"I think the strategy on the Obama campaign is, if I can’t make people love me, I’ll make them hate the other guy. "
- Jay Parmer, Founder, American Strategies, Inc. who says that despite the 50 million dollars that has been spent by the Obama campaign since it became a two person race, the average of the polls has shown the race getting closer, not further apart. - Wednesday, July 25, 2012.
"Right now they are all neutral."
- Lynne Warne, President, Nevada State Education Association, who says that mining and gaming, with exception of Las Vegas Sands, are waiting to see the outcome of the challenge to the Margin Tax Initiative. - Tuesday, July 24, 2012.
"It’s another failure of Green Fascism."
- Radio Host Todd Bailey, 1270 The Buzz, describing the pending closure of the Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas.
- Thursday, July 19, 2012.
"The net effect of this petition would be to allow a dramatic increase in unrestricted State spending."
- Josh Hicks, Attorney, Brownstein Hyatt, who says that the Margin Tax Petition would not prevent the Governor or Legislators from taking current funds that are allocated to education, and moving those funds elsewhere in the budget, if they chose too. - Wednesday, July 18, 2012.
"If someone there said they were a doctor, I would wonder how much they’d actually learned."
- Alison Gaulden, Planned Parenthood, who recently returned from a visit to Kyrgyzstan and observed that students at the colleges there not only have to pay to go to the college, but then have to bribe their professors for grades. They can also pay a higher bribe to get a better grade. - Tuesday, July 17, 2012.
"Haven’t gotten any phone calls from Harry, yet. Still waiting on that."
- Samuel Koepnick, who prevailed in the Democratic Primary for CD 2, and who believes that the National Democrats think that the seat is unwinnable by a Democrat. The incumbent is Congressman Mark Amodei. - Monday, July 16, 2012.
"We all said once the recession was over building would resume. But we’re not there yet."
- Marybel Batjer, VP Public Policy, Caesars Entertainment. Caesars is building the 550 million dollar project, Linq, an entertainment and shopping destination topped by the tallest Observation Wheel in the world. Ms Batjer concedes that in the not too distant future, more rooms will be needed in Las Vegas. - Thursday, July 12, 2012.
"Let me count the ways there are problems with the Margins Tax Initiative. "
- Carole Vilardo, President, Nevada Taxpayers Association, who says the only thing it does for education in that initiative is deposit money in the Distributive School Account of the general fund. It doesn’t say anywhere that the money must be used for education. - Wednesday, July 11, 2012.
"I think we’re going to see principal reductions in an amount that actually make economic sense for people."
- Former Speaker of the Assembly Barbara Buckley, who believes that the current rise in home values is not a bubble because banks are being forced to adopt a new business model due the AG’s settlement with them. - Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
"Ronald Reagan did actually increase taxes during his presidency and frankly recognized times when that had to occur."
- Fred Lokken, Professor of Political Science, TMCC, pointing out that it would not be unique to a Democratic President to raise taxes on the American people, if they do go up due to Obamacare. - Monday, July 9, 2012.
"It fills a gap and meets a need that is out there. We’ve got highly congested airspace in Southern California, Las Vegas, Phoenix, speaking of western airports."
- Derek Morse, Consulting Engineer, who believe it is inevitable that we get some kind of high speed rail within the next ten years. Comparing it to airplanes without wings. - Thursday, July 5, 2012.
"We have new flights that are coming in from Panama City."
- Rick Velotta, Business Reporter for the Las Vegas Sun, explaining that while Panama City is not a potential tourist mecca for Las Vegas, it opens the door to one stop flights from all across South America. That will help the Las Vegas Convention Authority reach its goal of getting 30% of its tourism from international visitors by 2020. - Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
"There’s always fear associated with this type of a process, especially as it doesn’t give any kind of legal status. This is just a deferred action that has to be renewed every two years. "
- Assemblywoman Lucy Flores (D) describing the feelings of undocumented aliens who may benefit from President Obama’s decision to extend administrative relief to an estimated 800,000 young undocumented immigrants. - Tuesday, July 3, 2012.
