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"Right now in Vegas, six thousand more rooms just came on line with the opening of City Center… Two more resorts are soon to open up. Planet Hollywood has just added about twelve hundred more rooms to the capacity of Vegas…… and we just probably won’t see any more building of this type, of the high end, high luxury for many, many more years."
- Marybel Batjer, VP of Public Policy and Communications for Harrah's Entertainment, asked about the continual upscaling of Las Vegas hotel-casino properties over the past two decades, and the upward pressure on revenue needed to cover costs. - Monday, December 28, 2009.
"If it’s for me, I don’t think we spend enough.
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- Former Assembly Speaker Bill Bilyeu, commenting on the amount of money spent on end of life medical care. - Wednesday, December 23, 2009.
"I’m not quite sure who goes to jail, when it doesn’t happen. I hope it’s not the Chief of Staff.
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- Robin Reedy, Chief of Staff to Governor Gibbons, on the Constitutional requirement to balance the State’s budget. - Tuesday, December 22, 2009.
"Most of this bill does not go into effect until after 2014, which is after the Obama re-election campaign. So Senator Reid, next year as he’s running for a tough re-election, will be able to tout the benefits of this bill and there will be no real effects of it until long after the election is gone.
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- Tray Abney, Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce, discussing the health care reform currently working its way through congress. - Monday, December 21, 2009.
"Those who use retail for therapy will find a lot of fun there.
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- Rose McKinney-James, Managing Principal, Energy Works LLC and Board Member for MGM-Mirage, discussing the high-end retail at CityCenter. - Thursday, December 17, 2009.
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars. The bills are still coming.
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- Lt Governor Brian Krolicki, on the cost of defending himself against the criminal case brought by the Nevada Attorney General, which was dropped last week.
- Wednesday, December 16, 2009.
"There are a lot of people who think now this is just payback to those Democrats who opposed him in the primary in Connecticut, and I really think it is beneath Joe Lieberman for what he’s doing now, if it is retribution.
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- Marlene Lockhard, Capital Strategies on the power that Senator Lieberman holds to derail any health care bill he has problems with.
- Tuesday, December 15, 2009.
"I think that John McCain was very honest in the fall campaign when he said that you’re looking at a fifty, sixty year commitment if this is something that you think is that important to American foreign policy.
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- Fred Locken, Professor of Political Science, TMCC on how long we could be bogged down in Afganistan.
- Monday, December 14, 2009.
"Some people excel to the point where they exceed the political parties. Senator Raggio is a statesman above Democrat or Republican, and that may offend some in the Republican Party.
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- John Gwaltney, economist, in defense of the Senate Minority Leader, who is under attack from the far right wing of the party. - Thursday, December 10, 2009.
"I was told by one of the Governor's staff that they felt it was necessary, that they couldn’t rely on fiscal staff to do this because the people wouldn’t accept that. I don’t buy into that.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio, calling the Governor’s move to reconvene the Economic Forum early an unnecessary political move. - Wednesday, December 9, 2009.
"They came in at a time when it was just too early. If that would happen now, it might be a lot different.
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- Ralph Toddre, President and CEO, Sunbelt Communications, discussing the failed merger of AOL/Time Warner, as against the synergy of the pending Comcast/NBC Universal purchase.
- Tuesday, December 8, 2009.
"Shows the power of people upset with Harry Reid around the country, too.
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- Danny Tarkanian, Republican primary candidate for U.S. Senate, who got over 7,000 campaign contributions in a six-week period following his appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s national conservative talk show. (The host asked the audience to contribute.) - Monday, December 7, 2009.
"It’s tragic, because so many lives are lost for next to no benefit.
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- Scott Craigie, Alrus Consulting, commenting on the Obama surge for Afghanistan, noting that the U.S. always has a problem withdrawing from a battle theater. - Thursday, December 3, 2009.
"I think it is a terrific success story. I think they ought to be applauded for it, not only for what they’ve done for the sport, what they’ve done for the State of Nevada.
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- Pat Lundvall, Chair of the Nevada Athletic Commission, commenting on Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta’s ownership of the UFC and the roughly 86 million dollar positive impact that it has on the State.
- Wednesday, December 2, 2009.
"Yes, yes.
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- Lynn Warne, President of the Nevada State Education Association, affirming that evaluations of teachers at the local level, including input from the Central Office as well as the local schools, would suffice to qualify for the current federal grants.
- Tuesday, December 1, 2009.
"I think that Brian Sandoval really could help motivate people to come to the polls on behalf of Republicans.
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- Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert, endorsing Brian Sandoval over Jim Gibbons in the Republican Gubernatorial primary.
- Monday, November 30, 2009.
