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"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.
"Her campaign was unusual in the respect that going to the right of us was something that we didn’t think she would be able to do.
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- Jay Parmer, President of American Strategies, Inc. managed Congressman Mark Amodei’s campaign against Kate Marhall, whom he says they outmaneuvered by simply sticking to their plan. - Tuesday, October 25, 2011.
"I think that’s normal. We’re going into an election cycle, so they’re not going to give anyone any credit so that they can push their agendas. And I think the reverse would be true if it was Republican president.
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- Robin Reedy, Partner at R Politix explaining why Republicans begrudge President Obama credit for ending the war in Iraq, or for anything else he might tout as success. - Monday, October 24, 2011.
"… yes, it would be nice to have more renewable wind energy delivered into Nevada, but it’s not going to help the Nevada economy, necessarily.
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- Michael Yackira, President and CEO of NV Energy, issues faint praise for an expensive, government-backed direct current transmission line running from Wyoming to Nevada, which he says is unlikely to lower energy costs in the Silver State. - Thursday, October 20, 2011.
"It’s a classic -- Republicans fighting Republicans again. They’re eating each other instead of eating the opponent. That’s gonna hurt. It always has.
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- Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick, on the day after CNN hosted a GOP presidential primary debate in Las Vegas. - Wednesday, October 19, 2011.
"When (Governor Sandoval) has these meetings with the various companies, he’s having the chancellor there and the school system people there.
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- Mary Lau, President and CEO of the Retail Association of Nevada, describes the Sandoval strategy to introduce education officials to companies considering a move to Nevada, so the skills demanded by the business can be revealed. - Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
"Just let us out. Leave us alone. We don’t have anything to offer them. We don’t hurt them. We have nothing to offer them. Just let us live our life. Let our employees live their life. Let us go forward.
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- Angela Miller, Co-Owner of Mach 4 Construction, who says the company will go bankrupt if it can’t be released from a contract with operating engineers union. - Monday, October 17, 2011.
"It has a lot of momentum, and hopefully now it has a lot of soul."
- Tony Santo, President and CEO of Santo Gaming, on the new slogan for downtown Las Vegas: “Every city has a soul.” - Thursday, October 13, 2011.
"We are looking at gold prices that are $5000, $7300 (per ounce), that are practical, completely rational.
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- Corrado De Gasperis, President and CEO of Comstock Mining, says the worldwide economic trends point to another steep climb for the price of his product.
- Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
