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"Even after this we are being told that this area will not designated as a flood plain by the insurance companies and the different organizations.
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- Todd Cutler, Mayor of Fernley, Nevada after major flooding devastated Fernley after a portion of the levee gave way.
- Thursday, January 31, 2008.
"We were the show, in that, it’s really about an 11 day window between New Hampshire and Nevada and it was all about Nevada. I mean, this is why it serves the whole state that we got to be the early caucus state. The spotlight on Nevada, the media attention we got. Wow!
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- Jill Derby, Chairman Nevada State Democratic Party, on how Nevada benefited from being an early caucus state.
- Wednesday, January 30, 2008.
"The private developer capitalized the infrastructure and the development under the watchful eye of the State so they had the inspection requirements and made sure that everything was built to State standards but everything was driven out the private development side and I think everyone found that it was built for 40 to 50% less money, was spent, in actually building it and it was built in about half the time.
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- Lance Gilman, Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, on the results of using 25 million dollars in private funds to build a State interchange.
- Tuesday, January 29, 2008.
"I don’t think something like that is, necessarily, something you have to take into consideration. I think that you have to look at, these are the programs that Nevadans could do without for a little bit longer and just because there’s an extra decrease in what that budget would have been, I think you have to look at what’s good for Nevada at the moment, not necessarily the cheapest.
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- Bryan Wachter, President, UNR College Republicans, discussing his thoughts on programs that receive matching funds being completely cut as against the 4 1/2 % cuts that most of the budget is facing.
- Monday, January 28, 2008.
"Well, that’s an interesting idea.
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- Ellen Oppenheim, President RSCVA, on whether Reno should get involved with the Comedy Central hit Reno 911 and stage a winter event to go along with it... - Thursday, January 24, 2008.
"The fact of the matter is if you don’t have a home to live in, you don’t feel very strongly about going out and spending some money on entertainment - whether it’s movies or food or some gambling entertainment.
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- Lesley Pittman, Sierra Strategies, LLC on the slowdown in the locals gaming market in Southern Nevada.
- Wednesday, January 23, 2008.
"My responsibility is to not judge whether or not it’s an appropriate or correct punishment but since it is the law, my job is to carry it out.
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- Howard Skolnik, Nevada Department of Corrections, on the burden of conducting executions and why he takes personal responsibility for them.
- Tuesday, January 22, 2008.
"Folks that would have the opportunity to make more money, whether it’s just in the same job that they are doing or in another resort, in the same role or being promoted in some way, that won’t happen. It can’t happen.
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- Bill Lerner, Deutsche Bank, on what would be one of the results of either a 3% or 20% increase in the gaming tax, as future gaming projects are shelved.
- Monday, January 21, 2008.
"That’s always the problem. When you pass an amnesty and you pass border enforcement, somehow the money goes away for border enforcements and the amnesty occurs and you have all those people getting phone calls back in their home countries learning that Uncle Joe came in illegally and now he’s been given amnesty.
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- Congressman Duncan Hunter (R) Presidential Candidate on what he regards as the failure of Congress to provide funding for border enforcement after the 1986 Immigration Reform Act.
- Thursday, January 17, 2008.
"We are vulnerable to an asymmetric attack and that’s what we saw in the Straights of Hormuz the other day.
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- Paul Eaton Army Major General discussing the Iranian speedboats that were threatening our ships related to a war game exercise that showed that a similar attack, with a lot more craft, could bring down an aircraft carrier group in under ten minutes. - Wednesday, January 16, 2008.
"Lowering interest rates means they are going to print money faster.
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- Congressman Ron Paul (R) Presidential Candidate on the Federal Reserve’s signal that they plan to lower interest rates to help stimulate the economy.
- Tuesday, January 15, 2008.
"We would build this project if not another person moved into Southern Nevada. When you have 90% of your water coming from a lake and from a river that is as volatile and as so susceptible to climate change as the Colorado River is, and when you see the 100ft bathtub ring and you recognize that if the drought continues Hoover Dam could stop generating electricity in 2011, we lose our upper intake, that’s 40% of our water supply overnight, you have to protect 2 million people.
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- Pat Mulroy, General Manager Southern Nevada Water Authority, on why the Northeast Nevada water importation project must move ahead.
- Monday, January 14, 2008.
"Yes!
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- Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki in answer to the question on whether he stands with Governor Gibbons on no new taxes. - Thursday, January 10, 2008.
"If you go to the caucus organizational meetings here in Nevada, I went to one last night, I’ll tell you it was a full auditorium and I feel like half the people were Ron Paul supporters. He’s going to do very well here, I think, here in the State of Nevada. When I say very well I don’t know that he’ll win but I think he’ll be top three and if he’s top two I wouldn’t be surprised.
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- Congressman Dean Heller on the surprising Presidential candidacy of Congressman Ron Paul.
- Wednesday, January 9, 2008.
"I attempted to try to get funding for representative office this last legislative session and I failed to convince the legislators that it was so important and I fully expect in the next session that I’ll get funding for that.
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- Tim Maland, Executive Director Nevada Commission on Tourism, on how Mexico is Nevada’s most important market and how we need to have a permanent representative there.
- Tuesday, January 8, 2008.
"He needs to encourage moderate political parties like mine to play a role in Pakistan. Second, he needs to take the country onto the road of democracy so that people in the country who want change or who have issues they want addressed feel that they can do it through peaceful democratic means and they stop looking towards the religious parties and those who use the gun to bring about a change. And third he needs to spend more on education, literacy, health and women’s rights, especially women’s rights. Because I believe that women can help transform societies.
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- Benazir Bhutto, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan on the three biggest things President Musharraf could do to reform Pakistan ( taped in 2004).
- Monday, January 7, 2008.
