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"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.
"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.
