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"Well, we’ll see.
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- Las Vegas Review Journal Columnist Jane Ann Morrison, who thinks despite the proclamations of Southern Nevada legislators, who say that this session they will work together as a group, she feels that, especially in the Assembly, there are too many inexperienced lawmakers for that to happen. - Thursday, January 31, 2013.
"As we expand that international side and that’s where the big growth will be, it’s going to drive even more and more demand so that will mean we’ll need more rooms.
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- Rossi Rolenkotter, President/CEO Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, agreeing with Union Gaming’s Bill Lerner that SLS, The Fountainblue, and part of Echelon will need to come on line in the foreseeable future as well as the former Lady Luck in downtown Las Vegas. - Wednesday, January 30, 2013.
"Will we ever have complete control? I don’t believe it.
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- Congressman Mark Amodei, CD 2, who says that you have to have something regarding border security in place for immigration reform so that what is adopted as the policy makes a difference.
- Tuesday, January 29, 2013.
"We just went off both ends of the cliff on this. There is enough blame to go around for everybody including regulators.
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- Carole Villardo President, Nevada Taxpayers Association, who personally feels that homeowners had an obligation to pay their mortgages if they could afford it but that the banks should have taken a customer service approach and not forced homeowners to stop paying their mortgages before they would negotiate with them. - Monday, January 28, 2013.
"We still pay for time and materials."
- Michael Hillerby, Kaempfer Crowell, who says that health care providers only get paid when you’re sick. There is no incentive to make you well. - Thursday, January 17, 2013.
"They have no reason to be terrified."
- Jon Hagar, Executive Director, Silver State Insurance Exchange, explaining that the Exchange has been set up so that broker/agents will be able to enroll people in the Exchange and the carrier will pay them just as they do today.
- Wednesday, January 16, 2013.
"If you can’t read by the time you leave 3rd grade you’re in lots of trouble the rest of the way through high school."
- Ray Hager, Reno Gazette Journal, believing that one of the priorities for Governor Sandoval will be a “Read By Three” program to be rolled out in his State of the State address.
- Tuesday, January 15, 2013.
"They’ve infiltrated the Republican Party and pretty much run things in Clark County and at the State party."
- Chuck Muth, President, Citizen Outreach, who says that the grass roots conservatives have taken control of the Republican Party but wonders if they will be able to raise the financial resources and organization they need, to be effective.
- Monday, January 14, 2013.
"For the future, if they’re gonna be pouring their dollars in, they need to be building organizations and not trying to spread messages through 30 second sound bites.
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- Glenn Cook, LVRJ Editorial Writer, who thinks that wealthy Republican political donors need to rethink their strategy and to start building a real ground game to compete with the Democrats.
- Thursday, January 10, 2013.
"I question it, I really do."
- Republican State Senator James Settelmeyer, when asked if he thought the State Knowledge Fund and Catalyst Fund are constitutional.
- Wednesday, January 9, 2013.
"Just a high school education is not enough.
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- Alison Gaulden, Planned Parenthood, who points out that 20 years ago you could become a machinist straight from machine shop in high school. Today’s world requires computer technology skills for that kind of work. - Tuesday, January 8, 2013.
"It’s as much as 19 dollars and 99 cents now.
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- Guy Rocha, Former State Archivist, describing the room rate at the Colorado Belle in Laughlin recently. He had paid as little as $7.77 when the property was so motivated to fill rooms.
- Monday, January 7, 2013.
"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.
