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"You should be allowed to choose an insurance policy that includes autism coverage, but I should also be allowed to choose a cheaper policy that doesn’t include autism or some of these other things.
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- Trey Abney, Government Affairs, Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce, on potential legislative action that may mandate coverage of Autism and other disorders that might, in turn, raise premiums.
- Tuesday, November 11, 2008.
"I think it’s a shift in emphasis that has been very calculated and pretty successful.
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- Molly Ball, Las Vegas Review Journal, on the Democrats strategy to emphasize issues that appeal to Westerners and to stay away from the more divisive issues.
- Monday, November 10, 2008.
"The standard process in education today is to make the child fit the curriculum. This is kind of old thinking; it’s kind of industrial thinking. When we have technology today and the ability to specialize so many other services, that we buy, we should think about making the curriculum fit the child. That’s exactly what we do at the academy.
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- Bob Davidson, Davidson Academy of Nevada, on how the Academy works with profoundly gifted children.
- Thursday, November 6, 2008.
"President Bush certainly did unite everybody; unfortunately they all united behind a Democrat.
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- Larry Matheis, Nevada State Medical Association, joking after the election of President Elect Barack Obama.
- Wednesday, November 5, 2008.
"For the most part, everything!
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- Ralph Toddre Executive Director, Autism Coalition of Nevada, on what amount of State assistance to families with children, who have Autism, has been cut.
- Tuesday, November 4, 2008.
"Now that doesn’t make any sense at all. Nixon on Laugh In? That must have been hysterical.
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- Howard Rosenberg, Regent NHSE, sarcastically responding to the fact that Presidents and Presidential candidates have been appearing on talk and variety shows for a long time.
- Monday, November 3, 2008.
"He’s got no plans. I’ve put forth an energy plan, a jobs plan an education plan. He’s got no plans. All he can do is try to bring my positives down and it’s just been a
shame we can’t debate the real issues that are affecting people in this district.
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- Senator Dina Titus running against Jon Porter for CD 3.
- Thursday, October 30, 2008.
"As I told Mr. Baer I don’t remember a 200ft oil derrick in the Beverly Hillbillies. I remember a hole of bubbling crude.
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- Douglas County Commission candidate Mike Olson discussing a planning commission meeting where he opposed the height of the oil derrick sign that Max Baer wanted to erect for his Beverly Hillbillies Casino. - Wednesday, October 29, 2008.
"I’ve always tried to run a very positive campaign based on experience and qualifications and my opponent and his boss Mr. Gammick, who have raised all these negative accusations because they can’t qualify in terms of qualifications and experience.
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- Judge Robert Perry, debating Deputy DA Elliot Sattler, in what has been a very ugly race, in Washoe County. - Tuesday, October 28, 2008.
"You engage young people; you engage those who haven’t participated in the past. And then by the time you get to Election Day they tend not to show up. This time it looks like they are showing up.
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- Larry Matheis, Nevada State Medical Association, discussing a benefit of early voting.
- Monday, October 27, 2008.
"For the first time, in probably two decades, the unions are approaching the bargaining table with a realization that the double digit revenue growth is over. Smart unions as well as smart employees come to that table being a part of the solution. I don’t think it’s going to be adversarial. And if it is, the reduction of force is our only option as ”quote” managers or elected officials so it comes down to be part of the solution or force us to use the only thing that we can.
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- Larry Brown, Democratic Candidate for Clark County Commission, on how he will deal with the rising cost of county employees if elected.
- Thursday, October 23, 2008.
"The fact of the economy is people are losing jobs and the jobs aren’t here. I think it’s sending some of those illegal immigrants that came in for the jobs, that’s why they come in, and I think they’re heading home cos the jobs aren’t there.
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- Jill Derby Democratic candidate for CD 2 discussing illegal immigration.
- Wednesday, October 22, 2008.
"The Republican Party seems to shoot itself in the foot far too often
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- Washoe County Republican DA Dick Gammick on what happened to the Republican Party organization in the state.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008.
"The banks need help from the Federal government so right now they don’t want stories of them refusing to renegotiate. The people who are in their homes right now have a little bit of public relations leverage on their side and they need to take advantage of that.
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- US Senator John Ensign, on what people who have troubled mortgages can do to help themselves.
- Monday, October 20, 2008.
"It’s a natural organic swing of the general mood of the electorate and I don’t know that it can be changed. I think its shoveling sand against the tide in some respects.
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- Pete Ernaut President R & R Partners Public Affairs on what’s occurring in national politics as the pendulum swings towards the Democrats.
- Thursday, October 16, 2008.
"The commission members are unpaid. The commission is unfunded and all the commission members donate and give of their time because this is important cause to them.
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- Leticia Bravo Ombudsman Nevada Commission on Minority Affairs answering the question of why the State should bear the cost of commissions like this one. - Wednesday, October 15, 2008.
