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"Love to have you. Come by anytime. We’ll put the hard hats on and leave it to your imagination.
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- Phil Shalala, Hard Rock Hotel, after describing some of the attributes of the new spa, under construction at the property, including a coed section and an adjoining night club. Nevada Newsmakers Host Sam Shad requested a tour.
- Monday, April 6, 2009.
"The bulk of the budget is between education and human services so that’s where your next set of cuts is going to have to come, to be meaningful at all. Anybody wanna cut? No.
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- Carole Vilardo, President, Nevada Taxpayers Association discussing her thought that the next biennium budget is going to look more like 2005 levels, at around six billion dollars.
- Thursday, April 2, 2009.
"I have always, traditionally, been a union supporter, strong union supporter, but the fundamental right of an American citizen to have a secret ballot vote is what’s at stake. My own thought is that should always remain.
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- Terry Murphy, President, Strategic Solutions, discussing the card check legislation before the Congress and her opposition to it.
- Wednesday, April 1, 2009.
"Dubai World, MGM’s partner in City Center, has a lot of issues of their own. In Dubai, they’ve been hit by this global economic meltdown. There’s one of three things that could happen with Dubai World, whether they’re going to want to get out of the whole City Center project all together, want to restructure their arrangement with MGM-Mirage. If somebody were to come in and offer to buy that portion, they would probably do it.
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- Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal discussing one of the many instances, in the gaming world, of brinkmanship being played out.
- Tuesday, March 31, 2009.
"Pat Mulroy has an obligation to provide water to the people of Southern Nevada. The Legislature has an obligation to try to get through this economic travail while still providing essential services to people and they are both protecting their territories. So I can understand the tensions.
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- Rory Reid, Chairman, Clark County Commission was asked if the Legislature understood the financial needs of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
- Monday, March 30, 2009.
"Now you can’t tell me that the same basic population, that we have, because Scheel’s and Cabela’s came here, is buying 41% more sporting goods. I think that’s coming from people that come from out of state, from tourists that are coming here especially to shop, at those particular places.
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- Gino Martini, Mayor of Sparks defending the use of STAR bonds to attract new businesses that draw over 50% of their business from out of state.
- Thursday, March 26, 2009.
"There’s less than 8 billion people in this world and that’s adults and children so if very single person in this world wrote a check today for a thousand dollars and put it all into one system that wouldn’t cover this.
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- Washoe County DA Dick Gammick upset over the trillions of dollars of debt the country is amassing.
- Wednesday, March 25, 2009.
"Basically nothing’s broke here so let’s not try to create a different system because I can tell you that we can out compete any state that there is with industrial parks.
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- Greg “Bum” Hess, Storey County Commissioner, asking the Legislature to not go after the counties taxes. - Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
"When you look at how we should be funding our roads and our infrastructure and our highways, the one that makes the best sense and it still does even with all the hybrids, it’s the fuel tax. When you collect a dollar in fuel tax you’re spending three and half cents to collect it. That’s a pretty good return on money.
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- Paul Enos, President, Nevada Motor Transport Association, on the best way to fund transportation infrastructure needs.
- Monday, March 23, 2009.
"The old adage, early to ripe, early to rot, is very prevalent in the Legislature.
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- Pete Ernaut R & R Partners, when asked if the Democrats are wise in keeping their budget plan a secret, for now.
- Thursday, March 19, 2009.
"I don’t think they do. I really, honestly, don’t think they do.
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- Pat Mulroy GM Southern Nevada Water Authority on whether members of the Legislature understand that if they take away the ¼ cent sales tax and go after the Water Authority reserves, that it would be catastrophic, on many levels, for Southern Nevadans. - Wednesday, March 18, 2009.
"I think that’s a great misconception in the law that a contract is a contract because in today’s world there are so many ways out, so many loopholes, so many different ways to manipulate, massage contracts.
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- Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gammick on whether AIG was forced, by their contracts, to pay the million dollar bonuses. - Wednesday, March 18, 2009.
"On the attack on Senator Horsford, I can’t fathom, what the uh. I don’t know. I have no explanation for that at all. I was quite surprised to see that tone and tenor.
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- State Senator Mark Amodei, regarding the Teachers Union attack on the Senate Majority Leader. - Monday, March 16, 2009.
"There are immune modulating agents and therapeutics on the market right now, largely, that we use in cancer therapy, that can actually can be translated and that’s the goal of our institute, to translate things into treatments, right now
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- Dr Judy Mikovits, Whittemore-Peterson Institute discussing some of the breakthrough work of the institute regarding Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and other neuroimmune diseases
- Thursday, March 12, 2009.
"I’m sure the labor organizations are going to, essentially, have some angst with this proposed change.
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- Clara Andriola, President, Associated Builders and Contractors, on changes to the prevailing wage law being proposed by her organization.
- Wednesday, March 11, 2009.
"Delaware has a franchise tax in place; it’s costing some of these businesses upwards of a million dollars in taxes every year, we can go after those businesses so long as we put very low incorporation fees in place. So as long as we maintain that structure we’ve go a good chance at being competitive and maintaining a pretty significant revenue stream for the state but you need to be very cautious as to what type of taxes could be imposed.
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- Ross Miller, Nevada Secretary of State referring to various tax ideas that are being floated in Carson City.
- Tuesday, March 10, 2009.
