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"Politicians are our servants not our masters. Some of the things that have happened with the initiative process; it’s under attack non-stop around the country and it’s because Politicians don’t like it. They don’t like the voters having the final say.
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- Paul Jacob, Sam Adams Alliance on why he enthusiastically supports the initiative process.
- Monday, April 21, 2008.
"Housing prices have risen further, much faster, in many other countries and there is a lot of concern that this could become a real international phenomenon.
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- Tom Cargill, Economist UNR, on how the US sub prime mortgage crisis could be a small version of an even worse crisis around the world.
- Thursday, April 17, 2008.
"We’ve got to have a moratorium on new coal fired power plants unless they capture the CO2.
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- Dr. James Hansen, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies adding weight to US Senator Harry Reid’s position on the coal fired plants intended for White Pine County.
- Wednesday, April 16, 2008.
"If you don’t want a bill, you’re the ones that asked us for a bill to start with in the first place. If you don’t want one, we won’t do one. Ensign feels this way, Heller feels this way and I feel this way.
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- US Senator Harry Reid on a proposed lands bill affecting Lyon and Mineral Counties that has generated a lot of controversy concerning how much land might be placed into wilderness areas.
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
"Our gaming numbers are down, sales tax down, the housing market, people say, hasn’t bottomed out yet so he’s right we may be back and the problem is everything is already cut to the bone. If we have to go back in then you’re talking about cutting services and operating expenses and personnel and you know the state really just can’t afford to do that.
We’re already short OSHA inspectors, we’ve seen accidents on the job, we’re short medical inspectors, look what’s happened to the clinics, we’re short parole and probation officers and we’ve got sex offenders on the streets. We’re talking about really putting at risk public health and safety.
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- Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus on Budget Director Andrew Clinger’s comments that there may be a need for more cuts within six weeks. - Monday, April 14, 2008.
"If you look at the Gibbon’s Tax Restraint Initiative, that passed by 70% so there was an overwhelming majority that supported that.
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- Steve Martin, sponsor of an initiative petition to force a 2/3rd majority vote, when trying to increase taxes via petition.
- Thursday, April 10, 2008.
"The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is flush and they have named Daskas one of their top candidates. They put him in this red to blue program that they have, where they target races around the country that they want to infuse a lot of cash into. So he’s going to get a big boost from that.
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- Molly Ball, Las Vegas Review Journal, discussing the candidacy of Robert Daskas running against Jon Porter in CD3.
- Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
"I think there’s some hanky panky going on and I want to get down to the bottom of it so those folks in that valley get fair and honest treatment.
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- Bob Larkin, Chairman, Washoe County Commission, on the allegation that there was some inappropriate usage of water in the Panther Valley area due to an alleged, illegal bypass.
- Tuesday, April 8, 2008.
"I think it was planted! (Laugh) I think you used the right word. The Culinary Union is very skilled at playing politics and playing in the newspaper game, planting a story, getting its point across. They’re very skilled at that.
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- John L. Smith, Columnist Las Vegas Review Journal, discussing a story that ran in the LV Sun regarding bed bugs at Columbia Sussex’s Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas. The last Culinary contract holdout on the strip.
- Monday, April 7, 2008.
"Governor Gibbons and Congressman Heller have said that they will support the counties’ opposition. Unanimously opposed resolutions have been signed by Lyon County Mineral County and Esmeralda County, supporting the voice of the people.
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- Emory Thran, Coalition for Public Access, discussing opposition to the size of the wilderness acreage (almost 700,000 acres) sought under the potential Lyon County Lands Act.
- Thursday, April 3, 2008.
"It is something I would really like to do and I will have a decision this week.
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- Bob Crowell Kummer Kaempfer on when he will make a decision as to whether to run for Mayor of Carson City.
- Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
"The American auto industry’s market share is much, much less and the United Auto worker membership is a pale facsimile of what it was almost 20 years ago.
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- Former US Senator Richard Bryan (D) on how if the US auto industry had aggressively pursued CAFÉ standards for gasoline mileage they would have been better off today than fighting them, as they continue to do.
- Tuesday, April 1, 2008.
"It’s a very small group of people that aren’t committed. There’s around 250 delegates that haven’t committed to someone so you’re not going to need a big convention room to get them all together. You could do it in a hotel ballroom.
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- Rory Reid, Chairman, Clark County Commission on whether there will be a Democratic Presidential super delegate convention, to decide on their choice for Presidential nominee.
- Monday, March 31, 2008.
"Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Those are the biggest threats to our country from a financial standpoint,
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- US Senator John Ensign discussing what happens if the Congress doesn’t have the courage to reform these entitlements.
- Thursday, March 27, 2008.
"We’re in the midst of a legal challenge that was filed last Thursday so I really can’t comment too much on it. It holds me back from telling you what an incredibly bad idea it is.
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- Pete Ernaut, R&R Partners Public Relations, on the Las Vegas Sands idea of taking future room tax monies from the Las Vegas Convention Authority to go towards roads, education and other State needs.
- Wednesday, March 26, 2008.
"I haven’t even heard from my own doctor and I talk to him on regular basis. Nobody from that practice has ever called me. Or any of the people I go to say, don’t worry, still come in, still do the right things. No I think there would be a little more pro active response.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend (R) on the response from the Nevada medical community in the aftermath of the problems with the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada.
- Tuesday, March 25, 2008.
