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"It’s a step they needed to take a long time ago. Not just Bank of America, but all the banks
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- Avi Hayon, Managing Partner, Commercial Mitigation Group, responding to the news that Bank of America will cut by one-third the principal owed on mortgages they acquired from Countrywide. - Tuesday, March 30, 2010.
"For every one student that we would (add) grades 1 through 12, that would save us six million dollars but than means the loss of 110 teaching positions.
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- Dr. Heath Morrison, Superintendent of the Washoe County School District, on solving a $33 million dollar budget shortfall through class size increases. - Monday, March 29, 2010.
"This isn’t about the Federal Government trying to find out intimate details of your household so they can monitor our citizenry. This about the Federal Government trying to figure out how to apportion Federal dollars.
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- Secretary of State Ross Miller, giving the "bottom line" reason Nevadans should fill out their census forms, despite questions on the form that exceed the constitutionally prescribed purpose of the census. - Thursday, March 25, 2010.
"We can’t keep doing this. Local government will cave in itself if we don’t do something about personnel costs. Two-thirds of our budget goes to personnel, and we need to try to work together, if we can, to reduce those costs.
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- Rory Reid, Democratic Candidate for Governor, recalling what he said to the head of the Firefighters Union in Clark County regarding firefighter pay and benefits. - Wednesday, March 24, 2010.
"Armageddon has not ensued; they are not in war in the valley of Megiddo in Northern Israel. No one’s been raptured up, I don’t feel any earthquake, and life seems to be going on pretty well.
(editor's note: Megiddo an important archeological site of the Israelite kingdom, and location of many battle scenes, according to Jacqueline Schaalje, Jewish Magazine.)
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- Andrew Barbano, publisher of NevadaLabor.com,on the passing and signing of the Obama health care legislation. - Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
"We’ve got the local and State issues. You’ve got budget shortfalls that are huge. You’ve got some districts that have some reserve funds that will be able to cover some of that. You’ve got some districts in the State that are just broke, and they’re not going to be able to cover that, and they’re really going to have to make some tough decisions with their employees.
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- Lynn Warne, President of the Nevada State Education Association, explaining why some of the state's teachers are very worried. - Monday, March 22, 2010.
"I am going to fight for congressionally-directed spendings. I am proud of that that I’ve done in the past and I’m going to continue doing as much as I can.
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- U.S. Senator Harry Reid, asserting the correct description of earmarks he has gotten for the benefit of Nevada.
- Thursday, March 18, 2010.
"I spent my youth here in Nevada until I was 18. My grandfather emigrated here from Greece in 1919. We had a cattle ranch from 1939 to 1982. My father was a district attorney in White Pine County. My cousin was the mayor in Ely. My mother raised the money to build the library in Ely. We had the first General Motors dealership in Northern Nevada. My brothers and I continue today to own gold and silver interests in White Pine County. We have water interests in Nye County.
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- John Chachas, Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate, refuting the notion that he is a carpetbagger. - Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
"We have, effectively, a junior senator who doesn’t have much to say anymore because of that incident. We would then have a freshman senator in a minority party. And we would for the first time, probably, go from first to last in terms of getting anything done for this state.
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- Sig Rogich, President of Rogich Communications, explaining why he thinks Nevada needs to retain Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in this year’s election. - Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
"When I was in high school, my counselor told me I should go to beauty college. I had 3.8 GPA and honors classes and she told me I wasn’t college material.
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- Verita Black Prothro, discussing the role of high school counselors, and warning that they make mistakes. Ms. Prothro has held high-profile positions at the National Judicial College, and in the offices of Senator John Ensign and Congressman Dean Heller. - Monday, March 15, 2010.
"We’ll have 14 thousand jobs by the time we’re through, as a result of this. It will bring in over 4 billion dollars worth of private money, and the taxes that will be generated will be awesome.
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- Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, responding to criticism of costly plans for a new city hall complex. - Friday, March 12, 2010.
"I think it’s sad for the whole state, and I don’t think Nevadans deserve it.
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- Consultant Mendy Elliott, discussing a New York Times piece on U.S. Senator John Ensign’s latest woes. The Times reported that Ensign's emails on behalf of his former chief of staff are now residing with the Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI. - Thursday, March 11, 2010.
"So far, every special session that we’ve had over the last few years is because they didn’t do their job in the first 120 days, and we’re having to go back and correct situations.
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- Mary Lau, President and CEO of the Retail Association of Nevada, objecting to the idea of annual sessions of the Nevada Legislature. - Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
"I hear that said a lot, and I’m sure it’s true, but I do believe the tax structure and the business friendly climate has more to do with it than the educational side of it, and I know that’s something that’s not politically correct to say anymore.
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- Steve Robinson of R&R Partners, disagreeing that education standards are the most important consideration for companies looking to relocate in the Silver State.
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
"The quest to find the best version possible is still on. It may require a special session. It may be resolved by the Court before that.
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- Barbara Buckley, Assembly Speaker, referring to language in a water bill needed to deal with issues raised in a recent Supreme Court decision affecting over 14 thousand different water rights holders in the state.
- Thursday, March 4, 2010.
"When a particular individual started waving a book in my face, and dictating to me about how he was going to come to the table with that book, that’s when I absolutely said wait a minute, we don’t conduct business like that on the floor of the Senate like this. This isn’t personal.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend describing an ugly exchange during the special session. Tray Abney was the individual referred to. His response, on the same program, is above.
- Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
