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"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.
"I think the posturing is becoming a bit tiresome for people. People are losing their jobs. People have a hard time making their mortgage payments, their car payments.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend, on the lack of a budget framework from the Democrats, at this point in the session.
- Monday, March 9, 2009.
"When we get public funding, there is accountability there. I’ve seen all this money that we’re talking about bailing out the car makers and all the rest of it. We as non profits have more accountability to the Federal Government than many of them do.
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- Jill Berryman, Executive Director, Sierra Arts, discussing how government monies, help non profits with credibility in the private sector. - Thursday, March 5, 2009.
"We have been told for 20 years that if we kept taxes low the economy would diversify. Well 20 years later we are still talking about diversification so clearly having the lowest taxes in the country outside of Alaska is not diversifying our economy. It’s not doing anything good for us and I feel very strongly that we need a different direction.
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- Assemblywoman Peggy Pierce (D) on what she has learned from all the state studies she has been examining, concerning the state budget, over the past two decades.
- Wednesday, March 4, 2009.
"It’s more thoughtful, sophisticated, enterprise pieces. Sort of like the public employees salary series that we’ve been running. Like the immigration series that we ran last year. Those are the things that buy you credibility in a community and get people to be loyal and come back to you.
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- Ted Power, Publisher, Reno-Gazette Journal on what drives traffic to his newspaper. - Tuesday, March 3, 2009.
