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"Whether it’s regarding how property taxes are allocated, how sales taxes are allocated, how the gaming tax is allocated, it’s a move that’s not without great political risk.
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- Review Journal Editorial Page Writer Glenn Cook, observing a defensive strategy by counties and cities, where they're encumbering funds in a race to shield money from a state budget process that may sweep local accounts. - Wednesday, January 19, 2011.
"We've got to watch our utilities, we’ve got to watch our taxes, we’ve go to watch the rules and regulations that come out of our legislature.
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- Developer Lance Gilman describes the controllable elements of Nevada's business climate, which come into play as he recruits tenants to his Tahoe Reno Industrial Center. - Tuesday, January 18, 2011.
"It would make me nervous if I were a candidate.
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- Retired State Senator Bill Raggio, in muted agreement that John Ensign's recently-reported campaign contributions are meager, considering the task at hand.
- Monday, January 17, 2011.
"Local governments are involved with collective bargaining, and that means they go to an arbitrator for mandatory decisions, and that costs money, and that needs to be addressed.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio believes there's a movement afoot to alter Chapter 288 of the Nevada Revised Statues, so local government agencies can better control the cost of managing personnel. - Thursday, January 13, 2011.
"Campaign is the word. It’s like a military word, and so we talk that way. We don’t mean that.
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- Former State Assembly Speaker Bob Barengo, on civility in politics.
- Wednesday, January 12, 2011.
"One of the biggest areas of abuse is where a provider provides services, or at least bills that they provide services, and the service was not provided. We see that almost exclusively in personal care services. We see that in areas where, typically, providers go into a clients home to provide services.
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- Nevada Health and Human Services Director Mike Willden describes one strain of Medicaid fraud his department has uncovered. - Tuesday, January 11, 2011.
"I disagree with the idea that it’s talk shows, or Fox News, or anything like that... it’s when an individual is walking in their own community, at the grocery store or anywhere else, and hears people around them talking like this, that’s when they really start to make the move, in my mind, in that direction.
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- Todd ”Taxpayer” Bailey, on the role of the media in stirring up violent actions. - Monday, January 10, 2011.
"Barbara Buckley and Steven Horsford and even Richard Perkins, where I think it started, really became cut throat partisans and people on the right wanted him to fight back and that just was never his style. God Bless him for it."
- Robert Uithoven of J3 Strategies discussing the resignation of State Senator Bill Raggio, while also mentioning that the Legislature of today is vastly different in tone than the Legislature Raggio entered. - Thursday, January 6, 2011.
"The economy, right now, overvalues cash. So we’re in a great position. We intend to open up debt free, which I don’t think will be a problem."
- Jay Meilstrup Principal Siena Hotel Casino who’s group purchased the Siena out of bankruptcy for 3.9 million dollars. The previous owner had poured 85 million dollars into the property. - Wednesday, January 5, 2011.
"That’s in theory what they’d like to do, but 'safe Democrat seat' doesn’t mean it’s going to be reserved for Mr. Reid again"
- Mary Lau, President Retail Association of Nevada, discussing the 4th Congressional seat for Nevada and how the Republicans will try to protect Congressman Joe Heck and therefore the Democrats will want a safe seat in return. - Tuesday, January 4, 2011.
"He’s said the worst thing we could possibly do is increase taxes, well, I think it would be just as bad to not be able to provide the critical services that government needs to provide."
- Perry Comeaux, Former State Budget Director, discussing Governor Sandoval’s no new taxes, no new fees pledge. - Monday, January 3, 2011.
"I do think that we are going to benefit by having all these new perspectives, and these new faces, and these new ideas.
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- Assemblyman David Bobzien says term limits will have a dramatic effect on the legislative session, but he doesn’t automatically assume the effect will be negative. - Thursday, December 30, 2010.
"There’s efficiency in these things, and the question is why do people oppose them? It might be because people, deep down, don’t want government to be efficient. There are a lot of things that government does that people intuitively disagree with.
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- Joe Becker, Director of NPRI’s Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation, speculates about the average citizen’s distaste for automated traffic enforcement such as red light cameras. - Wednesday, December 29, 2010.
"We actually saw the quality of vehicles decline during that period of time.
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- Salvation Army Corps Officer Major Michael Zielinski says Cash for Clunkers affected vehicle donations, as a lot of desirable cars that might have been donated were sold to the government instead. - Tuesday, December 28, 2010.
"He was a smart young guy that I think could have turned into a pretty good a quarterback.
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- UNR Head Football Coach Chris Ault, who recruited Danny Tarkanian to play football when his dad, famed UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, expressed reservations about having his son play basketball for him. - Monday, December 27, 2010.
"We learned from the former President George H.W. Bush that ‘no new taxes’ generally doesn’t end well, and we also learned that from Governor Gibbons.
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- Jordan Lutrell-Freeman, student at Cimarron-Memorial High School, says balancing the state budget will require broadening the sales tax and cutting pork from the budget, and that this approach will benefit education funding. - Thursday, December 23, 2010.
