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"I know of no consensus.
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- Tim Crowley, President, Nevada Mining Association, on published reports that businesses including mining had agreed to have their taxes raised.
- Monday, April 27, 2009.
"Sometimes when I talk to council members, I know there is some reticence on their part and some of them want to do different things that are out there or second guess where we’ve been but I’m confidant that we’ve got a majority on the council who understands that vision and wants to keep after it. And if they do that, this community will be fine.
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- Charles McNeely, Retiring Reno City Council Manager, advising the City Council to continue on the path that has been trodden for the past 20 years, regarding redevelopment of the downtown core.
- Thursday, April 23, 2009.
"Well, of course he’s saying that, but of course that’s his proposal but in my opinion that’s just another amnesty proposal that would allow 15 million people that are in this country illegally, to be able live here and not have follow the laws. I opposed that.
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- Congressman Dean Heller vigorously opposing Senator Ensign’s proposal for immigration reform that includes a lengthy registration requirement.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009.
"I think Senator Reid is very strong. He’s raised an awful lot of money. The party is very organized. It remains so from the last cycle and you see it’s already gearing up for the next cycle. You haven’t heard any serious challenger, any name thrown out there and the longer they wait to get organized, on the Republican side, the stronger he gets in terms of grass roots organizing and money so I’d put my money on him.
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- Congresswoman Dina Titus, on the lack of an announced Republican candidate to run against Senator Reid.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
"They pay for the program, and they have to register to make sure they’re not a criminal. The criminals, we need to get out of the country. And those who are here, they want to work, they want to contribute, give them a three year temporary residency and then give them bonuses. If they learn English and learn it well, give them an extra year or two. If they have a job with health care, give them an extra year or two. The bottom line is you can see if this program, for the next eight years is working, before you ever address the amnesty part of it.
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- US Senator John Ensign discussing his proposal as part of a broad immigration reform act.
- Monday, April 20, 2009.
"I do not want to participate in any effort to dumb down the requirements for graduation. That’s unfair to students.
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- Republican Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio discussing his objections to some provisions of Senator Horsford’s education plan.
- Thursday, April 16, 2009.
"Our system is not working. In the State of Nevada we are second to last, in the nation, for the rate of students who successfully complete high school. Only 60% percent of the students, who enter 9th grade, complete within 4 years. That’s abysmal!
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- Democratic Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford discussing his plan to reform education in Nevada
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009.
"His voice is going to be known on all issues, all important issues. In the end, I don’t think it’s going to be “I’m going to hold you hostage in exchange for that”. Certainly he’s never done that in the years that I’ve negotiated with him. That’s not his style.
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- Speaker of the Assembly, Barbara Buckley, on the power that Senator Raggio has, in this session, despite being in the minority.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2009.
"It’s not the way it’s playing out and The Governor is never irrelevant in the process.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons upon being asked about media comments, that with only two Republicans in the Senate, needed to vote with the Democrats, to pass veto proof legislation, that he could become irrelevant. - Monday, April 13, 2009.
"In terms of individual responses to the census, that is kept confidential for 72 years.
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- David Byerman, Nevada Liaison, US Census Bureau on why undocumented persons should still answer the census in 2010.
- Thursday, April 9, 2009.
"I could take one of your skin cells and convince it somehow to go back in time and become a cell that could be a liver or it could be a bone marrow or it could be a brain cell. All of the things that you might need if you fell ill. Of all the big developments in medicine, I would say, Genomics and stem cells are probably the top two.
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- Dr, Francis Collins, DRI Medal Recipient for 2009, for leading the mapping project of the Human Genome - discussing his excitement over the new attitude towards federally funded stem cell research, being promoted by President Obama.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2009.
"So far, you haven’t thrown anything out there that really bothers me a lot. I’ve talked to a lot of people down south and got commitments from several well connected people that agreed to raise me a lot of money.
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- Reno Mayor, Bob Cashell on whether he is planning to run for Governor in 2010.
- Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
"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.
