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"It really doesn’t change the findings. It doesn’t change the work that we’ve done whatsoever, and that we’re moving forward in a very positive way.
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- Annette Whittemore, President of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute, offers reassurance after the journal ‘Retrovirology’ published papers casting doubt on discoveries -- hailed as groundbreaking -- that linked the XMRV virus to certain chronic illnesses. - Wednesday, December 22, 2010.
"The government should not be subsidizing any part of the economy.
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- Robin Reedy, Chief of Staff to Governor Gibbons, making a pitch for user fees that cover actual costs, which is currently not the case for many state services. - Tuesday, December 21, 2010.
"Don’t ask, don’t tell passed, finally. A really bad policy that cost our military a lot of very qualified folks finally has been repealed.
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- Elisa Cafferata, President & CEO of Nevada Advocates for Planned Parenthood Affiliates, on the lame duck annulment of a controversial Clinton initiative. - Monday, December 20, 2010.
"It’s not something I would ever propose.
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- Union Gaming Group Analyst Bill Lerner seems to agree that it's dicey to include the volatile baccarat win in state budget projections. - Thursday, December 16, 2010.
"In Southern Nevada, it’s long been known at the Clark County School District the population of the school district was in excess of 30% to 35% Latino (or) Hispanic. Whether that correlates to folks voting or not is another issue.
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- NV Energy executive Tony Sanchez validates -- (or does he?) -- ethnic voters as a major factor in Harry Reid’s election victory. Of the 15 percent Hispanic turnout, the majority went for Reid. - Wednesday, December 15, 2010.
"The governor-elect is not in the business of handing over his responsibilities to the legislature. His m.o., really, is to work with the legislature.
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- R&R Public Affairs President Pete Ernaut firmly rejects any suggestion that Brian Sandoval's budgetary interactions with the legislative branch will resemble those of his predecessor. - Tuesday, December 14, 2010.
"I don’t think she’s electable for a presidency, and I think that over time you’ll see reasons why.
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- Rogich Communications president and Republicans for Reid organizer Sig Rogich "refudiates" Sarah Palin as a credible 2012 contender. - Monday, December 13, 2010.
"It’s huge, it’s huge.
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- Carole Vilardo, President of the Nevada Taxpayers Association, describes the sum Nevada would have to pay to shift public employees from a defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan. The cost: $1 billion each year for 7 years. - Thursday, December 9, 2010.
"It’ll help deficit reduction
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- Phil Satre, Chairman of the boards of IGT and NV Energy, is a booster for legal internet poker and, eventually, other forms of legal online gambling in this country. - Wednesday, December 8, 2010.
"There could be upwards of $200 billion in the online total, not just poker but the online total that we could obviously have the opportunity to tax.
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- Nevada Gaming Commissioner Randolph Townsend envisions a potential 40% tax for states where online gaming originates, and 20% going to the Federal Government. - Tuesday, December 7, 2010.
"This White House statement seems to indicate that those alarms weren’t there, or weren’t properly set up.
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- Ira Victor, Information Security Analyst for Data Clone Labs, says the federal government was slow to put data protection policies in place -- waiting months after the Wikileaks debacle to issue policies that might have prevented the theft. - Monday, December 6, 2010.
"I think consumers held back so that they could have a nice Christmas, as you should do really, but does that mean disposable income has risen? No.
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- Mary Lau, President and CEO of the Retail Association of Nevada, who says a bump in retail sales since Thanksgiving shouldn't be interpreted as robust business. - Thursday, December 2, 2010.
"It’s about creating a place that’s worth working in, worth living in, worth raising your family in. And Nevada is dangerously close to having lost a lot of that.
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- Larry Matheis, Executive Director of the Nevada State Medical Association observes that prosperity through speculation doesn't make a place to call home. - Wednesday, December 1, 2010.
"We have a tremendous number of Hispanic students who come into school, and they’re not quite American, and they’re not quite Mexican. They’re having, not the problem with one language. They’re having it with two languages.
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- UNR Professor Howard Rosenberg describes a hinderance to the higher education mission arising from the larger, more general problem of poorly-prepared high school graduates. - Tuesday, November 30, 2010.
"If you laid off all the State employees today, got rid of all of them, forget about cutting their salary or trimming back on their retirement, lay ‘em all off. You still don’t the money in the second year of the budget to pay for education.
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- Danny Thompson Executive Secretary- Treasurer AFL-CIO bemoaning Governor Elect Sandoval’s no new taxes pledge. - Monday, November 29, 2010.
"That’s a hell of a way to run a railroad.
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- Reno Mayor Bob Cashell Mayor admits he and the city council are obligating surplus funds before February 1, to protect the money from a legislature known to sweep municipal accounts in desperation for cash. - Wednesday, November 24, 2010.
