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"I think the critical area is education. I think the public is going to be extremely agitated about it and rightly so. Taxes that can generate revenue quickly will be the first to be looked at such as the payroll tax and perhaps even the sales tax.
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- Jim Wadhams, Jones Vargas, on how the Legislature is likely to look at closing the budget gap.
- Monday, February 2, 2009.
"Constantly changing what you’re going to do. Constantly switching what the programs are going to be, is bad. It creates uncertainty and so I hope, even though I disagree with this program of the Obama administration, that there’s some continuity and discipline because there was none in the last year of the Bush administration.
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- Gerald P. O’Driscoll Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
Discussing the changeover of administrations in the midst of this financial crisis.
- Thursday, January 29, 2009.
"Just Opportunity Village saves the state taxpayer about 12 million dollars a year.
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- Ed Guthrie, Executive Director, Opportunity Village on how organizations such as his are able to deliver services at a much lower cost as compared to the State.
- Wednesday, January 28, 2009.
"The Transportation Department has about one to one point five billion dollars worth of projects that they can put in place and advertise within 180 days
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- State Controller, Kim Wallin, on how the Federal Government’s stimulus package could rapidly help Nevada.
- Tuesday, January 27, 2009.
"In order for the Judicial system to work, it not only has to be fair but also has to appear fair and be accepted as fair by the citizens who are in front it and I think that’s an important consideration.
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- Bruce Beesley, President of the State Bar, on the issue of “Pay to Play” which he does not believe occurs.
- Monday, January 26, 2009.
"And they promised that they would have actual people reading them.
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- Amy Curtis-Weber Executive Director Washoe County Democratic Party commenting on the fact that President Obama is soliciting ideas, via e-mail, from the general public as a way of staying in touch with the electorate.
- Thursday, January 22, 2009.
"Dream on honey!
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- Randi Thompson, political analyst responding to a suggestion that Nevada should have a state, personal income tax.
- Wednesday, January 21, 2009.
"We felt out of the four big pieces of the general fund that that was the one piece that was most able to help fund itself.
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- Josh Hicks, Chief of Staff to Governor Gibbons explaining the large hit, financially, to higher education, due to the fact that they could raise tuition and raise funds through other vehicles.
- Wednesday, January 21, 2009.
"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.
