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"People are coming, they need to get away, they need to take a break, but they’re not spending as much money.
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- Las Vegas Review Journal Editor Thomas Mitchell believes Las Vegas is years away from economic recovery, despite an uptick in the number of visitors. - Tuesday, October 12, 2010.
"We’re not naïve enough to think cuts aren’t going to happen to us at all. But what we do hope is that they don’t cut our school in such a way to damage integrity. Things like losing entire colleges, programs, or even going so far as to lose our accreditation… would damage alumnae and current students as well."
- John Kucera, Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs for the University of Nevada’s student association. Kucera develop a pledge for legislative candidates to sign, promising a prudent approach to budget cuts. - Monday, October 11, 2010.
"If there are property owners, or if there are lawyers representing property owners, who are dissatisfied with the results that have occurred in the District Court, or believe that a District Court judge has made an error in a ruling, then appeal it.
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- Associate Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court Jim Hardesty declines comment on the potential for appeals in the state's mortgage modification program. There's been only one such appeal in the 16 months since the program was created. - Thursday, October 7, 2010.
"If you don’t have a platform to run on, something to present, you shouldn’t be in office. We are in need of leadership right now, and shying away from telling your story to your electorate, you have no business being in office. You need to be able to stand up, take a platform and run with it.
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- Mike Bosma, President of The Bosma Group, denouncing candidates who refuse to debate their opponents.
- Wednesday, October 6, 2010.
"The right in Israel and the left in Israel almost disappeared, and today you have 80 percent which are in the center, and 80 percent of the Israelis support a two state solution, support a compromise with the Palestinians, support the peace process that is actually being negotiated now in Israel.
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- Israeli Consul General Jacob Dayan, with an optimistic outlook for the Middle East peace process. - Tuesday, October 5, 2010.
"I think for many people it’s financially feasible as we speak. If anything, we’re faced with tremendous competition from other western states. In particular, the state of New Mexico and the state of Colorado.
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- Rose Mckinney James Managing Principal of Energy Works LLC, asserts there's a payoff for renewable energy development in Nevada. - Monday, October 4, 2010.
"Albany is out of control with spending and taxing and corruption, where Legislators are just buying off interest groups, and that has to change and I’m not confident that the Democratic nominee, Andrew Cuomo, has what it takes to do that.
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- Former New York Governor George Patacki gives a nod to Republican Carl Paladino in his home state's gubernatorial race, despite Paladino’s penchant for outrageous statements and his recent public shouting match with a New York Post reporter. - Thursday, September 30, 2010.
"My son teaches at a science and math high school in Korea -- teaches English -- and their school day is 8 to 5, and then 5 to 9 in the evening. If you're going to compete with that, you better have a 200-day school year.
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- Former State Senator Ernie Adler is alarmed that educational systems in South Korea, China, and India push kids harder than we do in United States. - Wednesday, September 29, 2010.
"It looks like more and more voters are steering away from the protest candidates, as it were, and making a decision as to whether to land firmly in the Reid or the Angle camp. I couldn’t dare to predict how things are going to turn out a month and a week from now. It’s just been so close for so long you’ve gotta think it’s going to come right down to the wire.
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- Glenn Cook Editorial Writer at the Las Vegas Review Journal, discussing the latest Mason Dixon Poll on Nevada's U.S. senate race. - Tuesday, September 28, 2010.
"I am going with repair, repeal, replace. There are certain things in there that are good things, that might just need to be repaired to make them better. There are certain things that I think that need to be repealed... Things in there where the concept is good, but the provision is flawed, and we need to replace it with something that will make sense.
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- Dr. Joe Heck, Candidate for Congressional District 3, claims to have read the federal health care reform bill in its entirety. Several times. - Monday, September 27, 2010.
"We need to keep cash out of the courtrooms. It doesn’t belong there.
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- Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, advocating merit selection for judges with subsequent retention by voters, instead of elections, which require large sums of campaign money to be solicited. - Thursday, September 23, 2010.
"We need to find a middle ground where we can talk to each other sensibly, and accomplish a few things.
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- Retired U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, on acrimonious politics at the state and national level. (O'Connor's senate confirmation score was 99-0.) - Wednesday, September 22, 2010.
"We didn’t use to do this. We used to teach reading writing and arithmetic. And there’s nothing wrong with that. We ought to go back to that.
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- Former State Treasurer Patty Cafferata, debating sex education in schools.
- Tuesday, September 21, 2010.
"Well, I think we’re in a similar situation, but luckily that is our system of government, where we have checks and balances.
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- Assembly Majority Leader John Oceguera discusses the possibility the next governor could repeat the Gibbons approach to budgeting, spurring the Legislature to add revenue unilaterally.
- Monday, September 20, 2010.
"What surprised me was the writing styles. Terrible. The ideas in them are absolutely revolutionary. They are just compelling, and so now anyone can read it as if it were a current day editorial.
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- Mary Webster, Translator and Editor of a plain-English version of The Federalist Papers, recognized that despite the fact the essays were written in English, they still required translation. - Thursday, September 16, 2010.
"Incumbency is in danger this time.
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- Mary Lau, President of the Retail Association of Nevada sums up a series of election victories by Tea Party candidates in this week's primaries. - Wednesday, September 15, 2010.
