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"Since the last rate case for the Southern utility, we have invested about a billion and a half dollars, most of which is on generating plant. So at this point we now own 75% of the power plants necessary to meet the load and we’re less vulnerable to the markets in California and elsewhere.
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- Michael Yackira, President and CEO NV Energy justifying the company’s request to the PUC to get a 17% rate increase in Southern Nevada.
- Wednesday, December 17, 2008.
"We had substantial evidence that there were individual canvassers out there submitting fraudulent forms and trying to get those on our voter roles. ACORN, in fact, had hired 59 prison inmates, some of whom were convicted of identity theft, to go out and canvas voters and to try and get additional registration forms turned in. That was disconcerting to us.
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- Ross Miller, Nevada Secretary of State, following up on potential voter fraud in the recent election.
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008.
"Let’s turn our computers off at night, let’s save on the utilities when we’re not running our computers during the night. That electrical savings is enormous.
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- Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons on what steps he is taking to save the state money, with a looming $1.2 Billion dollar deficit in the upcoming biennium.
- Monday, December 15, 2008.
"Well, it’s probably going to be somewhere in the property tax. Coming in and taking part of our property tax. But then they’ve got to give us something back so we don’t end up in the same thing.
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- Bob Cashell, Mayor, City of Reno, looking ahead to where the Legislature might try to get more revenue from the cities and counties to help balance the budget.
- Thursday, December 4, 2008.
"We’re going to ask our employees, for example, if they’ll forgo their cost of living increases. We’re also looking at other projects to defer in this budget because ultimately we have to prepare for 09 and 10 as well. So they can’t just be one time fixes to the budget. We’ve got to look long term.
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- Reno City Councilwoman Jessica Sferrazza on decisions to be made with cuts of almost 10% to be made in the current city budget.
- Wednesday, December 3, 2008.
"It’s not a one size fits all model. It’s not top down from Central Office down. It’s bottom up from the school community up.
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- Dr. Jeffrey Geihs, Principal, Cheyenne High School, describing his school’s designation as an “Empowerment” school and how the structure is different.
- Tuesday, December 2, 2008.
"There was a report that other state agencies do what he has been accused of doing, which is expending money without legislative approval, so I’m wondering, where’s the beef in this.
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- Joe Guild, Attorney, discussing the impending indictment of State Treasurer Brian Krolicki. - Monday, December 1, 2008.
"We concur with those sentiments.
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- Lou Primak, Penta Building Group, on the idea that no major gaming projects would be built on the Las Vegas Strip for the next 5 years.
- Wednesday, November 26, 2008.
"In that one week period there were 16 people killed in his state. Two of them were beheaded, stuffed into a barrel and their heads put on top of the barrel and two of them were law enforcement. So he doesn’t know, when goes to work everyday, what’s going to happen to him or his top aides.
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- Catherine Cortez Masto, Attorney General, on why she was not able to meet her Mexican counterpart, General Moreno, in Las Vegas.
- Tuesday, November 25, 2008.
"You use it to improve your technology. We are very behind in technology for a lot of the agencies, which would help maximize the abilities of the agencies to do some of the things they need to do.
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- Carole Vilardo, President, Nevada Taxpayers Association, on one of the things one might use the Rainy Day fund for during better economic times.
- Monday, November 24, 2008.
"My only suggestion is you don’t just cut across the board. You’ve got to make some hard decisions of what you can live with and what you can live without.
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- Congresswoman-Elect Dina Titus’ thoughts on the upcoming Nevada Legislative session and the budget plight of the State. - Thursday, November 20, 2008.
"I do think that Barack has the sort of charisma of a JFK and I think he also has the ability to connect, that President Reagan had. I also think that the one thing he has, that both of those two had, was the ability to uplift the entire country.
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- Billy Vassiliadis, CEO, R&R Partners, one of the first major supporters of Barack Obama in Nevada.
- Wednesday, November 19, 2008.
"The things that are going to bring people here is new aggressive tactics from marketing, on the part of the hotels.
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- Steve Schorr, Cox Communications, on why a 3% hike in the room tax rate doesn’t matter.
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008.
"For 10 billion dollars we would create 500,000, half a million, high paying jobs. Think what that would do for our country’s economy.
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- US Senator Harry Reid bemoaning the fact that we are spending 12 billion dollars per month in Iraq.
- Monday, November 17, 2008.
"Do you want to put your kids through college, or mine? You decide.
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- Marilyn York, Attorney, describing a saying in her business that helps divorcing parents arrive at a financial settlement.
- Thursday, November 13, 2008.
"If he blows the tax issue, he’s toast.
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- Chuck Muth, Nevada News and Views, on the Governor’s statements regarding everything being on the table, including taxes.
- Wednesday, November 12, 2008.
