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"The states are voicing their objection … to the federal government's unprecedented expansion of powers, and if you get to 36 states you can amend the Constitution. So it’s a warning signal being shot across the bow, saying ...we can amend the Constitution and we may very well do that.
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- Mark Hutchison, lead counsel for the state of Nevada in the challenge to federal health care reform, on a resolution now circulating in about 30 states. - Monday, July 26, 2010.
"I’d like to see some sort of reform of the scholarship, where there is a commitment to stay in Nevada if you receive these funds, at least for a year or two, to work here.
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- Community Activist Ellie Lopez-Bowlan, upon news that the Millennium Scholarship fund had been augmented to last through 2011. Her comment was prior to the announcement on the same day of Governor Guinn's death. The scholarship is one of his legacies. - Thursday, July 22, 2010.
"When you can give investors some degree of confidence that if they come to Nevada – open a new factory or invest in retail development here --- that they’re going to face similar circumstances for the next two or three decades, it’s much easier to get investment that will spur job growth."
- Geoffrey Lawrence, Fiscal Policy Analyst for the Nevada Policy Research Institute, discussing a strategy to boost the state's economy. - Wednesday, July 21, 2010.
"When you’re in a hole, you finally have to realize, you stop digging.
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- Chris Barrett, President of Barrett Resources, considers the effect of continued extensions to unemployment benefits, in the context of the billion dollar debt accruing to Nevada businesses as the feds lend the money. - Tuesday, July 20, 2010.
"No sanctions, no hearing, no comments from me. Everything came from the media… I was concerned enough that I contacted all the victims’ families…. none of them had any issues with this whatsoever.
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- Washoe District Attorney Dick Gammick, on a minor storm ensuing from his comment “some people say decision day is better than sex,” after the James Biela verdict. He seems to have been channeling Judge Mills Lane. - Monday, July 19, 2010.
"It’s something that Senators do, and do I think they ought to be doing it? Sure!"
- Scott Bensing of S B Strategic, discussing the phone calls to lenders placed by Senators Reid and Ensign, urging final funding for the CityCenter project. - Thursday, July 15, 2010.
"We’re trying to bring the debate to what should government be doing, and what does the taxpayer want to pay, rather than create a crisis to mandate new taxes and give our constituents the feeling that they have no choices.
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- Robin Reedy, Chief of Staff to Governor Gibbons, discussing the Governors approach versus the legislators approach to the next state budget. - Wednesday, July 14, 2010.
"This business of accountability! That’s wonderful. Do you know what accountability really means? If a kid learns, it’s because he’s brilliant. If he doesn’t learn, he has a lousy teacher. Now that’s Bull! With a capital B.
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- Howard Rosenberg, professor and former regent, discussing some of his concerns about K-12 education. - Tuesday, July 13, 2010.
"It is somewhat liberating to do what you think you should do in your best interests and in the State’s best interest and all those kind of things, without worrying about that letter.(R or D)
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- Josh Griffin, President of Griffin Communications Group, as a member of Republicans for Harry Reid, on abandoning partisanship. - Monday, July 12, 2010.
"Doesn’t the constitution of the state of Nevada say the legislature should only meet 120 days every two years? That’s what the constitution says. But there is a question whether the IFC is, or is not, an extra-constitutional body.
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- CEO Paul Enos of the Nevada Motor Transport Association, in the ongoing debate over the constitutionality of the legislature's Interim Finance Committee. - Thursday, July 8, 2010.
"Well, I said it’s not for sale. That’s always what you say.
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- Phil Ruffin, who owns the Treasure Island Resort and Casino, says that's how he initially responded when the Elad Group inquired about the land where the New Frontier Hotel once sat. He did sell it for $1.24 billion. He had paid $200 million for it. - Wednesday, July 7, 2010.
"I know that may be an anathema to politicians. They don’t want to talk bout that. They don’t want to talk about anything that might cure a problem if it’s politically unsavory.
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- Former Speaker of the Assembly Bill Bilyeu, on raising the Social Security retirement age in order to stabilize the system. - Tuesday, July 6, 2010.
"We are selling homes now for 2000 prices.
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- Homebuilder Perry Diloreto on Nevada's housing market -- so depressed its prices have slipped back a decade.
- Monday, July 5, 2010.
"Before you engage in any type of litigation like this, you need to look not only at the legal side of the issues, but look at the practical side of what you’re doing to your government.
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- Mayor Bob Crowell of Carson City wonders whether Governor Gibbons has chosen the right time to question the constitutionality of the Interim Finance Committee, given the state's fiscal challenges.
- Thursday, June 24, 2010.
"If Gibbons does anything with IFC, it will end up in the courts, and I think the court system is going to be determining, if in fact he does challenge it.
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- Mendy Elliott, Senior Vice President of Data Clone Labs, suggests that the governor's office won't have the final word about the Interim Finance Committee's authority. - Wednesday, June 23, 2010.
"What I worry about is some of the backlash that we could get from this. Are we going to start getting boycotted? Are we going to start getting the people saying boycott Nevada casinos? We certainly don’t need that now. Do we want to send away all of our workers? I don’t think so.
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- Consultant Susan Fisher considers the possible consequences of an Arizona-style immigration law in Nevada. - Tuesday, June 22, 2010.
