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"If it gets to 14% (we) have to be in a position of asking which programs can we live without. That’s very painful in a state that needs more education not less education.
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- Dr Milton Glick President UNR on the likelihood of far deeper budgets cuts.
- Thursday, July 17, 2008.
"I don’t like negative campaigning and I don’t want to talk ill about my opponent. I think she could have better spent her time trying to get the majority in the Assembly than trying to upset the Senate. We’ve got the majority in the Senate by one vote and solving these problems is not going to be done by sitting back and saying I vote no on everything.
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- Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio on his opponent, Sharron Angle’s record of voting no a majority of the time when she was in the Assembly.
- Wednesday, July 16, 2008.
"There’s more kids with Autism than there are with Juvenile Diabetes, Cancer and HIV combined and the big difference is that insurance doesn’t cover the treatments for Autism.
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- Ralph Toddre, Founder and Executive Director of the Autism Coalition of Nevada, discussing the financial ramifications for families with Autistic children.
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
"If you think I’m hitting at the State Department of Education, you’re right.
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- Sharron Angle on how she would like to see the State Department of Education mostly dismantled, to save money.
- Monday, July 14, 2008.
"I don’t go in there and do an analysis of how great their administration is. I love the Presidents and yes, I do look to their leadership, but after that, no! You look to the classroom and you look to the programs that are offered. This is an opportunity to do that.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend on the firings of 40 administrators this week at UNR.
- Thursday, June 26, 2008.
"Our goal is to reach that number, to balance the budget without tax increases and to do that as expeditiously as possible and there’s going to be some pain.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio on how the Governor and the Legislature need to close a budget shortfall, potentially as high as 290 million dollars.
- Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
"Last Friday I spoke to Bill Raggio probably 7 times, on the phone. Some of them were 15, 20 minute conversations. We have had him on conference calls, where we’ve been on a conference call even since Friday for probably more than an hour.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons, addressing published reports that the Governor had not talked to Senator Raggio for more than ten minutes in length, during the recent budget planning process.
- Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
"Do you want to keep people who are left working whole entirely or do you want layoffs.
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- Carole Vilardo, Nevada Taxpayers Association, on choices facing the Governor and the Legislature. - Monday, June 23, 2008.
"Elko is more purple than it was red even a year ago.
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- Doug McMurdo, Elko Daily Free Press, on how Elko is now a swing county in a swing state.
- Thursday, June 19, 2008.
"We’ll see what kind of politics are played at the Supreme Court.
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- Mike Franzoia, Mayor of Elko, on how term limits will be decided, in his opinion. - Wednesday, June 18, 2008.
"We are not in favor of exporting water to Southern Nevada.
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- Charlie Myers, Elko County Commission, says that despite abundant water in Elko County, they have sent back and forth an agreement that states that SNWA will not look at their water for at least 50 years. - Wednesday, June 18, 2008.
"You could close Great Basin College and all the community colleges in the North and it would still not cover that amount of money.
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- John Patrick Rice, Great Basin College, on what would be the ramifications of a 14% budget cut.
- Wednesday, June 18, 2008.
"The average wage for a miner is 70,000 dollars and that far exceeds the average wage of everyone else in Nevada.
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- John Mudge, Newmont Mining, discussing the benefits of mining in Nevada. - Tuesday, June 17, 2008.
"I’d guess you’d call me a fiscal conservative who’s had all my angular edges worn off by pragmatism.
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- State Senator Bob Beers commenting on the state's budget crises.
- Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
"The Ron Paul convention is going to be Burning Man 2.
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- Larry Matheis, Nevada State Medical Association, on the likelihood of there being two Republican conventions in Nevada this year.
- Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
"It runs about 3 million a mile at our cost.
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- Roger Norman, Tahoe Reno Industrial Center on how much it costs his company to build the four-lane road that will eventually link I 80 and US 50.
- Tuesday, June 10, 2008.
