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"I think the one statistic that’s more important to me than probably any other is that we had more hotel rooms filled, in terms of visitors with heads in beds, last month than we had when the market was at its absolute peak about three years ago. "
- Jeremy Aguero, Applied Analysis, speaking in terms of confidence for tourism businesses to invest and create jobs in Southern Nevada, you couldn’t ask for anything more. - Tuesday, November 22, 2011.
"We hope that our other assets, the tax environment, our labor costs, can be low enough that we can make the business case that exporting our power to California is a good deal for both Nevada and California. "
- Stacey Crowley, Director of Energy for the State of Nevada, explaining how despite Nevada’s higher cost of energy, it still might make sense for California power companies to import Nevada’s renewable energy. - Monday, November 21, 2011.
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"I would describe Dean Heller as a blank page.
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- Jim Rogers, President and CEO Intermountain West Media, who has yet to host Senator Heller on a television segment, because, he says, Heller has not returned his phone calls. - Thursday, November 10, 2011.
"There’s no news right now, so everything is focused on him. He should have done what Bill Clinton did and dropped a bomb somewhere.
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- Heidi Smith, Republican National Committeewoman, says Herman Cain is damaged, but not yet done-for. - Wednesday, November 9, 2011.
"The irony, of course, is a lot of the OWS (Occupy Wall Street) protesters and campers are using iPads and iPhones to communicate. Are they really protesting against Steve Jobs?
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- Bradley Schiller, UNR Professor of Economics, alluding to the ascension of Steve Jobs from the 99 percent, where he was born, to the one percent, where his garage-based entrepreneurship took him. - Tuesday, November 8, 2011.
"They are actually in danger of potential takeover from the state if they’re not more fiscally responsible.
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- Curtis Cummings, CEO of the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, who fears the NLV City Council is taking a band aid approach to the city's fiscal woes, where a full body cast might be needed. - Monday, November 7, 2011.
"He said, 'We've come alive and we've broken through, and all of a sudden so much is possible that wasn't possible before... We will never go back to what we had before.'""
- Cultural Anthropologist Jill Derby, who is an expert on all things Egypt, relating her conversation with a young Egyptian man who was celebrating the fall of Mubarek. - Thursday, November 3, 2011.
"It’s attracting a lot of homeless people because the food is actually very good.
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- Mike Bosma, president of the Bosma Group, observed Occupy Wall Street in person over the weekend, and found a core of homeless people surrounded by college students. - Wednesday, November 2, 2011.
"… the court administers the mediation program, and the court system retains all the fees. So sometimes you wonder what level of bias there might be in that process, but I would suspect they would uphold it.
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- Assembly Majority Leader Marcus Conklin, discussing a pending constitutional challenge to the state's foreclosure mediation program. The Court took exception to this remark, and clarified that the fees only pay the mediators. - Tuesday, November 1, 2011.
"If you do have some more veteran presence in the legislature, you realize how quickly time runs out.
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- Attorney Josh Hicks from Brownstein Hyatt, noting the brevity of a 120-day legislative session, which requires all participants to hit the ground running on day one. - Monday, October 31, 2011.
"It has taken over marijuana as the gateway drug.
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- Michael Bakios, Resident Agent in Charge of Reno's Federal DEA office, says kids are using prescription drugs to get high, and graduating to heroin when they can’t get the prescription drugs. - Thursday, October 27, 2011.
"It’s frankly very silly that we’re doing this, because it’s not going away, and it’s going to continue, and it’s going to continue no matter what, simply in different countries.
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- Alfredo Alonso of law firm Lewis and Roca points out that online poker is wildly successful, despite its illegal status in the United States. - Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
