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"There’s efficiency in these things, and the question is why do people oppose them? It might be because people, deep down, don’t want government to be efficient. There are a lot of things that government does that people intuitively disagree with.
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- Joe Becker, Director of NPRI’s Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation, speculates about the average citizen’s distaste for automated traffic enforcement such as red light cameras. - Wednesday, December 29, 2010.
"We actually saw the quality of vehicles decline during that period of time.
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- Salvation Army Corps Officer Major Michael Zielinski says Cash for Clunkers affected vehicle donations, as a lot of desirable cars that might have been donated were sold to the government instead. - Tuesday, December 28, 2010.
"He was a smart young guy that I think could have turned into a pretty good a quarterback.
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- UNR Head Football Coach Chris Ault, who recruited Danny Tarkanian to play football when his dad, famed UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, expressed reservations about having his son play basketball for him. - Monday, December 27, 2010.
"We learned from the former President George H.W. Bush that ‘no new taxes’ generally doesn’t end well, and we also learned that from Governor Gibbons.
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- Jordan Lutrell-Freeman, student at Cimarron-Memorial High School, says balancing the state budget will require broadening the sales tax and cutting pork from the budget, and that this approach will benefit education funding. - Thursday, December 23, 2010.
"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.
