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"I’m not complaining. I understand the County’s difficult situation."
- David Hardy, Chief Judge of the Second Judicial District, speaking of the cuts in services and staff due to Washoe County’s budget shortfalls. That includes cutting in-court proceedings on Friday afternoons, a reduction of staff from 190 to 151, the law library reducing its circulation and the lack of a self help director for the past three years. - Thursday, April 26, 2012.
"The average car on the Nevada highways today is 11 years old and there is a tremendous pent up demand, but we need people to get back to work. "
- Wayne Frediani, NV Franchised Auto Dealers Association, on the correlation between new car sales and the high level of unemployment in Nevada. - Wednesday, April 25, 2012.
"It’s kind of a knee jerk mindless kind of statement."
- Former Speaker of the Assembly, Bill Bilyeu, responding to Chuck Muth’s headline regarding Governor Sandoval’s agreement with Amazon to start collecting and passing on sales tax to Nevada. Mr Muth’s headline read, “Sandoval screws Nevada taxpayers again." - Tuesday, April 24, 2012.
"While you’re in high school, take advantage of those services and try to make your schools fulfill their commitment to that.
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- Amy Harmon, New York Times National Reporter, pointing out that transitional aid for students with autism are not available after high school so students and parents need to be aware of that, and use those services while they can. - Monday, April 23, 2012.
"We seem to want to deal with the moment instead of starting to think long term."
- Fred Lokken, Professor of Political Science, TMCC, discussing the debate over short term costs of moving to alternative sources of energy, rather than looking at Nevada as a source of energy, not only for California but also the Pacific Northwest. - Thursday, April 19, 2012.
"You really hope all this stuff didn’t happen."
- Washoe County District Attorney, Dick Gammick, who is waiting until the investigation of the Secret Service scandal is complete before passing judgment. - Wednesday, April 18, 2012.
"The whole program is a Western United States High Speed Rail Program."
- US Senator Harry Reid describing the DesertXpress's part in a rail system that would include Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix and California. This includes 8 Billion dollars of American Recovery Act money. - Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
"I think if you want people to ride the train you’ve got to take it from one end to the other, not stop in the middle."
- Dina Titus, Congressional Candidate in the safe Democratic Congressional District 1, who feels that the Maglev high speed train system going all the way into Southern California makes more sense than the currently proposed DesertXpress.
- Monday, April 16, 2012.
"We have seen activity, in our sub divisions that we haven’t seen in five years."
- Perry DiLoreto, CEO, Damonte Ranch, Diloreto Homes, who says he is not the only new home developer who is starting to see things turn around. - Thursday, April 12, 2012.
"I think it's going to be five four in favor of the States and striking down the individual mandate."
- Mark Hutchison, Lead Special Counsel for Nevada fighting Obamacare, basing that opinion on the number of questions asked by the five justices of the government's attorney. - Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
"He went after the Middle East to get it. I don’t think that’s where a United States Senator should be asking for the energy in this country."
- US Senator Dean Heller, referring to Senator Chuck Schumer’s request for Middle Eastern countries to pump an additional 2 ½ million barrels a day of oil, rather than getting that oil from here in the United States or Canada. - Tuesday, April 10, 2012.
"Well it isn’t enough. I think the Governor would acknowledge that as well."
- Lynne Warne, President, Nevada State Education Association, saying that the Governor’s plan to continue the taxes that were supposed to sunset was a good start but still would not be enough to fund education adequately.
- Monday, April 9, 2012.
"When a teacher looks like a slob, I’m sorry, but that teacher cannot expect good work, really good work from a student."
- Howard Rosenberg, Candidate for Washoe County School Board and former member of the Board of Regents, suggesting that a dress code for teachers would be one way of gaining respect from the students. - Thursday, April 5, 2012.
"The cake was pretty much baked for me when I received the settlement. "
- Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada Attorney General, referring to the settlement with the major banks regarding the mortgage crisis that she signed onto, mainly because there was a side settlement with Bank of America, that will help some Nevadans with financial relief. She was not one of the Attorney Generals who negotiated the deal. - Wednesday, April 4, 2012.
"Guardedly but no."
- Danny Thompson, AFL-CIO, who says that despite several major construction projects in the near future, in Southern Nevada, he has very little optimism with 90% of ironworkers, bricklayers and plasterers unemployed. - Tuesday, April 3, 2012.
"It’s to get more students out than to get more students in."
- Dan Klaich, Chancellor NSHE, discussing the new funding formula that will be, in part, based on graduation rates rather than the number of students. - Monday, April 2, 2012.
