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"We are starting to stabilize. The last three months our statistics have shown that prices to be relatively stable. We had, actually, an increase in market value in condo/townhouses not last month but the month before. So that was encouraging.
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- Sue Naumann, President, Las Vegas Association of Realtors, with some news on the housing front.
- Tuesday, October 6, 2009.
"I’ve got a lot of fight in me but I’ve go a lot to do in the office. So no one's stepped up yet, we’re going to keep our eyes open and if they do we’ll go into fight mode.
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- Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley, so far, in an uncontested race for re-election. - Monday, October 5, 2009.
"There are certain weight limits in terms of the tables that we use and there are certain instances where patients are so heavy that we have to transfer them to other facilities.
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- Richard H Bryan Jr. Cardiologist explaining that it is not uncommon to have obese patients who weigh 350 lbs to 400 lbs and how difficult it is to work on them.
- Thursday, September 24, 2009.
"Another piece of this is, we really want to reach out to the family member as well, while the troops are deployed,
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- Alicia Adams VA Sierra Nevada discussing the scope of the work the VA is doing to not only help the returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan but also the families who are left behind while the troops are serving.
- Wednesday, September 23, 2009.
"PE is so limited in our school district. Especially at the elementary school level and even middle school. Creating more PE so at least three times per week for example. Some after school programs that are more active for those students who have to go home to an empty house.
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- Karen Eckert, MD discussing some of the ways that school districts can help get Type 2 diabetes from continuing to be at epidemic levels in our youth, along with better food choices.
- Wednesday, September 23, 2009.
"Breast cancer is about 87% chance that I would get breast cancer, with this mutation, and I’m a mom and I have three kids and it’s a chance I wasn’t willing to take.
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- Jennifer Denoo who has the gene that can cause breast cancer and chose to have a double mastectomy to ensure that she would never get breast cancer.
- Monday, September 21, 2009.
"It’s just a wrong perception, to come out of the Shute giving people the impression that your initial interest was the result of political consultants.
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- John Griffin, Kummer Kaempfer discussing published reports in the RGJ that pointed to Pete Ernaut and Greg Ferraro as encouraging Brian Sandoval to enter the race for Governor.
- Wednesday, September 16, 2009.
"Cancer develops because of an error in cell replication and so it’s not caused necessarily by cigarette smoke or by toxins in the air or bad water. It’s caused by us living longer. The more we live, the more chances we may have an error.
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- Dr. Eric Rost, Medical Director of Radiation Oncology, Renown Medical Center discussing the “War on Cancer” and why cancer occurs.
- Tuesday, September 15, 2009.
"There are consequences for doctors. We’ve already investigated and criminally prosecuted doctors, in this state for abuse of prescription drugs and when I say abuse, prescribing drugs without any consequence, without, maybe, doing a physical exam or knowing the history of the patient.
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- Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada’s Attorney General discussing prescription drug abuse as regards to doctors.
- Monday, September 14, 2009.
"It's like when you go into a clothing store and it says 70% off for this suit. Wow 70% off. Yeah of a number we just made up in our heads. Yes it's 70% of a 500 thousand dollar suit.
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- Bill Maher, Host HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher mocking the pharmaceutical industry's offer to cut their profits by 8 billion dollars a year for the next ten years as part of the current health care reform.
- Thursday, September 10, 2009.
"There is a knot that comes into the pit of your stomach and says, you know what, I could die, I could die.
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- Bob Crowell, Mayor of Carson City, upon accepting the fact that he had contracted cancer of the prostate.
- Thursday, September 10, 2009.
"If we are now in the mid forties on a lot of indicators, among all the states, we probably at risk going farther down towards the 50 position.
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- Dean Ole Thienhaus of the Nevada School of Medicine on the fact that Nevada will be going backwards in terms of having sufficient licensed physicians by 2013.
- Wednesday, September 9, 2009.
"They said well, it may well be that you contracted the beginnings of that cancer 50 years ago.
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- Jim Rogers, Chairman and CEO Sunbelt Communications Company discussing the origins of his cancer of the bladder, now cured, which can be traced back to his 7 summers working at the Nevada Test Site, while in college.
- Thursday, September 3, 2009.
"I just got back from Washington, DC and I met with some people in the Department of Energy, some very high level people, in the Department of Energy and I also sat in a boardroom with several top Department of Homeland Security officials who are very interested in my idea.
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- Taylor Wilson, 15 year old student at The Davidson Academy for the Profoundly Gifted. Who has invented a way to detect nuclear materials and bombs coming into US ports. - Wednesday, September 2, 2009.
"Why is it that Harry Reid spent more time bailing out Detroit and more time bailing out banks than coming home and helping us here in Nevada?
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- Sue Lowden, State Chairman, Nevada Republican Party attacking Senator Reid prior to her likely entry into the race for US Senate.
- Tuesday, September 1, 2009.
"Almost half of our high school students are never completing high school. That’s going to have a huge impact on our society.
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- Pamala Butters, I Can Do Anything Charter High School discussing the high school dropout rate in Nevada.
- Monday, August 31, 2009.
