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"A tactical decision was made some time in the last 20 years by national politicians that we’re not going to talk about the poor, we’re not going to talk about the working class because the middle class talks to the aspirations of the American people."
- Richard Siegel, former president of the Nevada ACLU who says that 90% of the American people regard themselves as aspiring too or being a part of the middle class. - Thursday, January 3, 2013.
"Twitter is breaking news before most news agencies. We’re tapped into Twitter and Google Plus and Facebook because that’s where it’s (news) coming from."
- Melissa Carlson, Anchor News 4, extolling the virtues of new media versus waiting for the morning newspaper. - Wednesday, January 2, 2013.
"There’s nothing new under the sun. It’s how we do it. That’s what makes it magic."
- Howard Rosenberg, UNR Professor of Art, talking about how Forbidden Planet, the Sci Fi movie featuring Robbie the Robot, was based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. - Tuesday, January 1, 2013.
"Our summer line up of special events is second to none in this country."
- Chris Baum, CEO Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority, who says that there is no other resort town in America that has as many high profile, high volume, high attended special events as are held in the Reno-Sparks area. He views that as an incredible asset.
- Monday, December 31, 2012.
"I think that does become a slush fund and again I think that’s an undue influence that shouldn’t be there. "
- Republican Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, accusing former Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley of using a loophole in the law to dole out campaign contributions from her campaign, while lobbying her former colleagues on behalf of the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada that receives state funding. Speaker Buckley is the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Center. - Thursday, December 27, 2012.
"I’m going to party, take a nap and then I’ll do something."
- Student Ashley Simon, Canyon Springs High School, who viewed a video, where students from China and India really cared about their education. Her quote pertains to a student from Illinois that reflected a common attitude of not caring about education in the United States. - Wednesday, December 26, 2012.
"I don’t think that is conducive to the whole home building and a lot of the construction defects issues."
- Democratic Assemblyman Skip Daly, who says he’s going to work on the indemnification issues surrounding the construction defect laws that punish companies for not only the work they did but also other contractors work on the same job for which they might not have been at fault. - Monday, December 24, 2012.
"We had guns in the back of our trucks when we went to high school because it never even dawned on anyone to take a gun into a school. It’s not the guns. There’s something else that has occurred in our society."
- Jodi Stephens, Stephens Consulting, who grew up in Hawthorne Nevada in a hunting family with a hunting culture. - Thursday, December 20, 2012.
"Probably a realization that that was all basically crap."
- C.J.Hadley, Editor and Publisher of Range Magazine, on why she gave up the life of a New York City managing editor of magazines like Car and Driver, Auto Week, Snowmobiling and American Boating, to produce a magazine that chronicles the modern day ranchers and cowboys across America, which has grown into an international publication. - Wednesday, December 19, 2012.
"The solar, also, is not a huge industry in our state."
- Dr. Maria Sheehan, President TMCC, who says that in addition to solar, the college thought there would be a lot more happening with wind. She says the advantage of a community college is that it can change direction to where the job needs are, very nimbly. - Tuesday, December 18, 2012.
"We cannot achieve any success in any of these areas if we do not recognize the importance of being proactive in dealing with mental health issues in this country and in this state. And yet we are going backwards."
- Justice James Hardesty, Nevada Supreme Court, responding to the shootings in Newton, Connecticut. - Monday, December 17, 2012.
"200 Million (dollars) plus or minus."
- Thomas Schwenk, Dean, UNR Medical School, looking at the cost of building a 270,000 square foot academic facility on the campus of UMC that he envisions as a public private partnership. - Thursday, December 13, 2012.
"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.
