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"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.
"I don’t think you’ll see a whole lot of resistance to expanding the legislature from the Republicans. The Democrats may be a different story.
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- Chuck Muth, president of Citizen Outreach, suggests more northern legislative seats would spell advantage for the GOP. - Tuesday, November 23, 2010.
"We could have more of that if people aren’t worried if there’s another shoe gonna fall and affect their bottom line.
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- Beryl Love, Executive Editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal, casting an eye toward Carson City to lay the legislative groundwork for more small business success, and more investment in Nevada by entrepreneurs. - Monday, November 22, 2010.
"He’s a dead man walking. He cannot possibly win either primary or general.
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- Former Republican Speaker of the Assembly Bill Bilyeu's dark appraisal, after John Ensign announced he'll seek re-election to the U.S. Senate. - Thursday, November 18, 2010.
"I guess it gives you kinda of a what-the-heck, I’m termed-limited, lame ducked, so it may give you a little freedom to do something else.
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- Senate Minority Leader Mike McGinness, liberated, as 2011 approaches. - Wednesday, November 17, 2010.
"Campaign finance transparency is going to be a big priority of mine next legislative session.
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- Secretary of State Ross Miller wants to adjust campaign finance reporting deadlines so the info is available to the public sooner in the election cycle. - Tuesday, November 16, 2010.
"In the Legislature of 1875, guns were drawn, knives were flashed, spittoons were thrown.
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- Former State Archivist Guy Rocha, taking the long view on bitter partisanship in Nevada's political ranks. - Monday, November 15, 2010.
"I’m hopeful that we can approach this not as Democrat or Republican, but as Nevadans.
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- Newly-elected state senator Sheila Leslie suggests solving the state's budget crisis will require lawmakers to abandon partisanship. - Thursday, November 11, 2010.
"If that happens, all the brick and mortar locations in Nevada have something to worry about."
- Jeff Siri, President and CEO of Club Cal Neva, shares the concern of casino operators who cater to locals, that legal online poker is a threat to the business. - Wednesday, November 10, 2010.
"I think there is a boogey man in the room… I don’t think the financial community is gonna let misreprentations happen. And in fact, the profits are up."
- Washoe Democratic Party Chairman Chip Evans is skeptical of the claim that the profits of health insurers have been overstated for the sake of creating a political boogey man. - Tuesday, November 9, 2010.
"He’s afraid falling housing prices will lead to falling prices generally. But we’ve been in this for two years, and they haven’t, and there’s no reason to believe they will going forward. In fact, (food and energy) prices are going up.
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- Gerald O'Driscoll, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, who predicts the Federal Reserve strategy of "quantitative easing" will cause inflation, and that Ben Bernanke's alarm over deflation is unwarranted. - Monday, November 8, 2010.
"Look at the assembly… a lot of people thought there was going to be a larger shift in the number of democratic seats lost."
- Consultant Mike Hillerby credits Harry Reid's coattails with a more slender loss for Dina Titus than the polls predicted, and a better-than-expected showing for down-ballot Democrats. - Wednesday, November 3, 2010.
"Nevada is ranked fourth in the nation for positive business climate. California is 49th. We’ve got a tremendous opportunity to lure some of that business into the state, and start this growth machine going."
- Consultant Scott Bensing of SB Strategies views California's election of Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown as a gift to Nevada. - Wednesday, November 3, 2010.
