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"A million would go a long way."
- Carol Lucey, President, Western Nevada College, who says that the college has had to cut its presence in a lot of rural towns and counties because of all the budget cuts, but feels a lot of those services could be restored for a reasonable amount of money. - Wednesday, December 12, 2012.
"English and Math is still a huge problem for us. So big frankly that this year we started doing something different in our district. Second semester we’re going to be providing the classes that children would take in college for remediation. "
- Pedro Martinez, Superintendent, Washoe County School District, who says these classes are going to contain UNR and TMCC content to better prepare students to enter the University system. - Tuesday, December 11, 2012.
"As we go into ever increasingly difficult times, hydrologically, it’s nice to know that everyone who is a user of the Colorado River is now fully engaged and there is a give and take between all the parties."
- Pat Mulroy, General Manager, Southern Nevada Water Authority, referring to a historic water agreement between the United States and Mexico, that will include allowing the US to help rebuild Mexican water infrastructure, while allowing Mexican water to be stored in Lake Mead. - Monday, December 10, 2012.
"It is difficult, particularly for an issue such as (the one) we’ve brought forward to contain it in that Twitter like 200 word description of effect."
- Lynn Warne, President Nevada State Education Association, after several Supreme Court Justice’s commented that perhaps the 200 word explanation is not long enough. - Thursday, December 6, 2012.
"It’s not my cup of tea."
- State Senate Ben Kieckhefer, who feels that the majority of the state senate feels as he does, that the no new taxes pledge doesn’t work when the state’s financial circumstances can change so dramatically. - Wednesday, December 5, 2012.
"The most important person in the equation and this is going to make some people very angry, is the teacher. Second most important is the student. Everything else is a far distant."
- Howard Rosenberg, Washoe County School Board-Elect, who believes the CEO type model for a School Superintendent is dead wrong.
- Tuesday, December 4, 2012.
"This deals with the immigrant population. It deals with the African American population both of which for various reasons have taken very strong positions that the ID is another way of reducing their participation in the political process."
- Larry Matheis, Nevada State Medical Association, who says, regarding having to show an ID to vote, that this goes to the heart of the constituencies that the Democratic Party has put together as its coalition. - Monday, December 3, 2012.
"We were up about 10% statewide last year and we're going to be up 12 to 14% this year.
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- Wayne Frediani, NV Franchised Auto Dealers Association, who says that new car sales are still off about 40% from four years ago.
- Thursday, November 29, 2012.
"There are machinists in this community that are making $30 an hour. That’s not bad money.
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- Ray Bacon, Nevada Manufactures Association, answering concerns that wages for skilled machinists is too low, at the outset of their careers.
- Wednesday, November 28, 2012.
"Which equates to 1.6 billing dollars on Christmas spending here in Nevada.
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- Bryan Wachter, Retail Association of Nevada, who says that holiday shopping, in Nevada will be up 6.8% this year compared to last year.
- Tuesday, November 27, 2012.
"The definition is constantly moving. Whichever is politically expedient at the time for the argument that whichever side is making, unfortunately.
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- Amber Joiner, Nevada State Medical Association, trying answer the question, who is the middle class these days.
- Monday, November 26, 2012.
"If there’s focus on that, at least as a starting place, that tells me that the definition of compromise is not the Administration's agenda or John Boehner's agenda. "
- Congressman Mark Amodei, CD 2, discussing Simpson-Bowles as a starting point for averting the fiscal cliff. - Wednesday, November 21, 2012.
"If we had (Republican) leaders in Nevada we would have had a better outcome in the election."
- Mendy Elliott, Forte LLC, who says that the Republican Party does not have a leader in Nevada. - Tuesday, November 20, 2012.
"It was a program that in the past we’ve undone the program after the campaign. Now we’ve decided to keep the program in place."
- Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer AFL-CIO, talking about how complex and sophisticated the unions GOTV campaign has become and that it will not be disbanded between election cycles. - Tuesday, November 20, 2012.
"I would start by not nominating candidates for the (US) Senate who are Neanderthals from Missouri and Indiana."
- Attorney Joe Guild, with some free advice for the Republican Party. - Monday, November 19, 2012.
"There are no new issues in the Nevada Legislature, they just recycle."
- Former Speaker of the Assembly Richard Perkins who says that the loss of Institutional Knowledge at the Legislature means that the body has to keep going over the same ground that had already been understood by former leaders like Joe Dini, Bill Raggio, Randolph Townsend and more. - Thursday, November 15, 2012.
