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"His cash flow, over there in Singapore, is going to be a billion dollars a year from just one hotel casino.
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- Gaming Reporter Howard from the Las Vegas Review Journal, tells how much money will be made at Sheldon Adelson's Marina Bay Sands property, as related by Adelson himself. - Monday, August 30, 2010.
"I cannot, given my own religious background, not protect other minority religions in this country.
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- Representative Shelly Berkley, offering support on First Amendment grounds to the placement of a mosque near New York's ground zero. - Thursday, August 19, 2010.
"They have a perfect right to build anywhere that they own the property, that’s the Constitution. They need to be sensitive to the culture. They need to be sensitive to what happened on 9-11.
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- Republican U.S. Senate challenger Sharron Angle, who is in concert with incumbent Senator Reid in objecting to a mosque near ground zero. - Wednesday, August 18, 2010.
"Twelve million dollars in State funds generated a 77- million dollar building that will transform our medical school.
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- Dr. Milton Glick, President of the University of Nevada, describing the new reality for higher education -- private sector dollars will have to replace shrinking state dollars, as they did in the construction of UNR's Center for Molecular Medicine. - Tuesday, August 17, 2010.
"There’s been four thousand papers published in the last 25 years on the physical aspects of this disease, so the people out there who try to say that it’s psychological have ignored the science, and they cannot ignore this fact, (the existence of) XMRV.
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- Andrea Whittemore-Goad celebrates the opening of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute, discussing the discovery of the retrovirus XMRV and the hope it has given to sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome. - Monday, August 16, 2010.
"Yes, I'm very concerned that some companies from California would skip over Nevada, because they shouldn't be."
- Matt Crosson, President of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, on business relocation trends that favor New Mexico and Texas thanks to various incentives offered by those states. - Thursday, August 12, 2010.
"I hope we learn a lesson... when the good times start rolling again that we make sure we're covering the liabilities that we have previously incurred, and that we will, when we expand a program, expand a benefit, make sure it's sustainable for five to ten years"
- Carole Vilardo, President of the Nevada Taxpayers Association, hopeful that legislators will take a new approach to the state's financial affairs when the eventual economic turnaround comes. - Wednesday, August 11, 2010.
"When your student sees you in the building, it matters. It really matters, and if education matters to you, then it matters to them."
- Dena Bodecker, Parent Involvement Facilitator at Dilworth Middle School, encouraging parents of any educational standing to get involved at their children's schools. - Tuesday, August 10, 2010.
"If you're going to propose a solution that solves the state's budget shortfall without raising taxes, you're going to have to bring local governments into the mix."
- State Budget Director Andrew Clinger, discussing a 50 percent hole in Nevada's next budget. - Monday, August 9, 2010.
"This really is kind of a reach. "
- Michael Hackett, Vice President at Alrus Consulting,on tying the issuance of teen driver’s licenses to school attendance. Is this a tool to boost high school graduation rates in Nevada? - Thursday, August 5, 2010.
"Your heart says yes, do it, but the economic research says it’s generally a waste of resources beyond a certain point."
- Tom Cargill, Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, pointing out that politicians ignore established economic research. Specifically, he says, multiple extensions of unemployment benefits aren't productive. - Wednesday, August 4, 2010.
"The upside is that you have more and more voices out there…. On the subway in London, when a bomb explodes, you’re getting pictures you’d never have gotten before… The down side is that a lot of these people have no idea what they’re talking about, in my view."
- Dean Jerry Ceppos of the Reynolds School of Journalism, on the rise of citizen journalists. The university will soon launch a course on news literacy. - Tuesday, August 3, 2010.
"That committee’s going to have to continue its work and come up with a recommendation without Moody’s… it’s their job to figure out what steps we take next.
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- Assemblywoman Debbie Smith, on the disintegration of Nevada's contract with Moody’s Analytics for a study of the state's tax structure.
- Monday, August 2, 2010.
"Education is at the top of their the list, health care is second on the list, and overriding everything right now is jobs. People are struggling, especially in that district, and they want to know what government is going to do to help them. "
- Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie describes voter priorities as she hears them on the doorsteps of the district while she campaigns for a state senate seat. - Thursday, July 29, 2010.
"No matter whether we got those federal funds or not there is a structure – a plan -- in place now, and things we know we have to do at the state level to make education better in this state."
- Tray Abney, Director of Government Relations from the Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce, on the result of Nevada's unsuccessful application for federal Race to the Top funds. - Wednesday, July 28, 2010.
"It’s certainly a regulatory attorney full employment act.. all the new regulations will have to be written. It’s a 2000-plus page bill… and we figure there’s about five thousand pages of regulation at the minimum."
- Bill Uffelman, President of the Nevada Bankers Association, on financial reform, as the pundits ponder the business weather blowing west from Washington. - Tuesday, July 27, 2010.
