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"It’s a billion dollars every three days in Afghanistan.
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- Ty Cobb, Former Special Assistant to President Reagan, says many conservatives are in favor of some sort of withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq, especially considering the high cost and the current economy. - Tuesday, September 7, 2010.
"The 10 percent figure has no reality, and I’m not going to ask the people of our campuses to engage in the kind of serious, painful budget-cutting process for a number that’s not real.
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- Chancellor Dan Klaich Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education, on his refusal to submit an across-the-board budget cut requested by the governor.
- Thursday, September 2, 2010.
"Whichever one goes to that office, their first mission, their first job is going to be looking at that budget, and talking about we can do to fund education, and 'no new taxes' may not be on the table.
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- State Senator Bernice Mathews describing her message to the gubernatorial contenders regarding education. - Wednesday, September 1, 2010.
"Every teacher I know... spends money out of their own pockets to equip their classroom, and that’s dead wrong.
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- Attorney Joe Guild, who doesn’t begrudge school superintendents their high salaries, but suggests it's not right when school budgets don't cover classroom necessities.
- Tuesday, August 31, 2010.
"His cash flow, over there in Singapore, is going to be a billion dollars a year from just one hotel casino.
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- Gaming Reporter Howard from the Las Vegas Review Journal, tells how much money will be made at Sheldon Adelson's Marina Bay Sands property, as related by Adelson himself. - Monday, August 30, 2010.
"I cannot, given my own religious background, not protect other minority religions in this country.
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- Representative Shelly Berkley, offering support on First Amendment grounds to the placement of a mosque near New York's ground zero. - Thursday, August 19, 2010.
"They have a perfect right to build anywhere that they own the property, that’s the Constitution. They need to be sensitive to the culture. They need to be sensitive to what happened on 9-11.
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- Republican U.S. Senate challenger Sharron Angle, who is in concert with incumbent Senator Reid in objecting to a mosque near ground zero. - Wednesday, August 18, 2010.
"Twelve million dollars in State funds generated a 77- million dollar building that will transform our medical school.
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- Dr. Milton Glick, President of the University of Nevada, describing the new reality for higher education -- private sector dollars will have to replace shrinking state dollars, as they did in the construction of UNR's Center for Molecular Medicine. - Tuesday, August 17, 2010.
"There’s been four thousand papers published in the last 25 years on the physical aspects of this disease, so the people out there who try to say that it’s psychological have ignored the science, and they cannot ignore this fact, (the existence of) XMRV.
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- Andrea Whittemore-Goad celebrates the opening of the Whittemore-Peterson Institute, discussing the discovery of the retrovirus XMRV and the hope it has given to sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome. - Monday, August 16, 2010.
"Yes, I'm very concerned that some companies from California would skip over Nevada, because they shouldn't be."
- Matt Crosson, President of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce, on business relocation trends that favor New Mexico and Texas thanks to various incentives offered by those states. - Thursday, August 12, 2010.
"I hope we learn a lesson... when the good times start rolling again that we make sure we're covering the liabilities that we have previously incurred, and that we will, when we expand a program, expand a benefit, make sure it's sustainable for five to ten years"
- Carole Vilardo, President of the Nevada Taxpayers Association, hopeful that legislators will take a new approach to the state's financial affairs when the eventual economic turnaround comes. - Wednesday, August 11, 2010.
"When your student sees you in the building, it matters. It really matters, and if education matters to you, then it matters to them."
- Dena Bodecker, Parent Involvement Facilitator at Dilworth Middle School, encouraging parents of any educational standing to get involved at their children's schools. - Tuesday, August 10, 2010.
"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.
