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"When that inventory begins to shrink and get down to levels that we experienced, say, back in 2002, before the housing market really began to go on this boom time. Then we’ll say that’s a good sign that means prices are stabilizing and we are probably hitting bottom. Things will start to get better.
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- Elliot Eisenberg, National Association of Home Builders on how we’ll know when the housing crisis has hit bottom.
- Monday, January 19, 2009.
"The Governor has sent out conflicting signals on whether or not he will or not include the Teachers Union room tax increase in his budget. If he does, he’s broken his pledge and frankly, that pledge is about the only thing that has kept me and a lot of fiscal conservatives still on the man’s team because he’s just had so many other difficulties, let’s just say, since he was sworn in.
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- Chuck Muth, Nevada News and Views, on the Governor’s no new taxes pledge.
- Wednesday, January 14, 2009.
"I worry about industry specific tax targets especially in small business and the casino business, the industry; I really worry about it, especially the small operations.
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- Connie McMullen, Publisher Senior Spectrum, on discussions about industry specific taxes in the upcoming Legislative session.
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009.
"You’re not going to have something that, tomorrow morning a bill gets passed that compels the County to do that and next Monday morning they have to start putting up the money. I’m looking at long term, I’m looking at what happens next Friday, what happens next year, what happens five years from now.
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- Jim Rogers, Chancellor NSHE, on how the Counties need to start planning to put money into the Community College system in addition to what the State puts up.
- Monday, January 12, 2009.
"We’re cautiously optimistic that there will be a plan which incorporates the National Guard, which we think would be wonderful. It would be win win win, for the State, for the Federal Government, for the Guard, for the University.
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- Dr Milton Glick, President UNR, on plans to save the UNR Fire Academy in Elko by either co-locating with the National Guard or having the Guard take over the Academy.
- Thursday, January 8, 2009.
"Trying to do both is something that I think unfairly puts the Association, at a time when they’re going to be taken a pretty good look at, unfairly puts them in a position where they ought to be judged based on what they’re providing for the State of Nevada and what their footprint is, as opposed to who their Executive Director is.
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- State Senate Mark Amodei, on one of the reasons why he resigned as the head of the Nevada Mining Association, well in advance of the 2009 Legislative session.
- Wednesday, January 7, 2009.
"Some things really get to you. I don’t like tearing down programs that we’ve built up for years. I don’t like being poor in national rankings but more importantly, family stories, they bother you. You go home at night wondering whether you could have done something different, we could have had a different policy and so you do your best and try to keep moving forward one step at a time.
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- Mike Willden Health and Human Services Director in response to the question of whether the budget cuts, in his department, were having a personal effect on him. - Tuesday, January 6, 2009.
"The problem is what happens to Medicaid, what happens in education and prisons, particularly. The numbers you are talking about now are 34% across the board. When 93% of the budget is Health and Human Services, Education and Public Safety and you’re saying most of those things are going to be off the table. You can’t come up with the kind of numbers that are out there and the last thing, I think, anybody wants is a federal judge running the prison system and K12 education system.
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- Mike Hillerby, Former Chief of Staff to Governor Guinn discussing the impending State budget and how Governor Gibbons can cut his way to balance that budget.
- Monday, January 5, 2009.
"The ones who have complained are the liberals.
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- Ty Cobb, Former Advisor to President Reagan, discussing the fact that conservatives, on the whole, are supporting the President Elect’s cabinet choices.
- Wednesday, December 31, 2008.
"I think that could be on the chopping block.
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- Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie when asked about the survival of the Millennium Scholarship.
- Tuesday, December 30, 2008.
"I think it gets lost on people. Everybody wants to talk about the negative stuff every single day and you don’t hear any good news. MGM-Mirage is embarking on a process now to hire 12,000 people. 100,000 applications are going to go through.
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- Mike Alonso, Attorney Jones Vargas, talking about some of the positive news out of the gaming industry including City Center and Wynn’s Encore opening.
- Monday, December 29, 2008.
"The 700 Billion Dollar TARP was meant for financial institutions and under no imagination or spinning of the facts do the Detroit auto makers qualify as a financial institution.
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- Tom Cargill UNR Economics Professor on one of the reasons he thinks the bailout of the auto industry is a bad idea.
- Thursday, December 18, 2008.
"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.
