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"There’s no question that in southern Nevada, as I think throughout the West, the prevalence of illegal documentation, of people who appear to be legal, is rampant. Anybody with a good Xerox machine seems to be able to pump out good looking documents.
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- John L. Smith, Columnist Las Vegas Review-Journal, on illegal aliens using forged documents to get employment in the hospitality and construction industries.
- Thursday, December 6, 2007.
"There is truth to that rumor. We think it’s a tremendous piece of property. We couldn’t be dealing with nicer people than the owners and the existing management there.
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- Fernando Leal L3 Development on the rumor that his company plans to be acquire the Club Cal Neva in downtown Reno.
- Wednesday, December 5, 2007.
"They pay about 50% of the State budget, in some form, from gaming; slot tax, gaming tax, property tax, sales tax. Almost half the money comes from them. The problem with what they’re trying to do is if you are reliant, right now, on 50% of your entire budget from one source and now you’re going to do something that will make that 70% and they have a bad day like 911???
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- Danny Thompson, Secretary-Treasurer Nevada State AFL-CIO, on why he doesn’t support the teacher’s initiative petition to raise the gaming tax by 3%.
- Tuesday, December 4, 2007.
"It is tough to vote against legislation when there are important water projects for your state in that, but I think Senator Ensign has always wanted to look at the bigger picture and do not only what is best for Nevadans but for our whole nation and future generations.
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- John Lopez, Chief of State to Senator John Ensign, on why the Senator voted to sustain the President’s veto of a 23 billion dollar water bill that would have brought major water projects to the state.
- Monday, December 3, 2007.
"An awful lot of folks still either grew up on a farm, grandma and grandpa had a farm, or their goal someday is to move out to an acreage after they retire even though they’re working in the city. So we bring back a lot of memories and a lot of connections to their past that people enjoy watching. "
- Patrick Gottsch, President and Founder of the RFD-TV who just signed Don Imus discussing the appeal of RFD-TV to people that live in urban areas of the country. - Thursday, November 29, 2007.
"It’s voluntary for the agencies to turn those debts over to us, to collect them. Some cases we get them 722 days old, when they turn them over. You not going to collect them."
- State Controller Kim Wallin on the inefficiencies within State Government that leaves the State with 35 million dollars in receivables they are likely not to be able to collect. - Wednesday, November 28, 2007.
"I was just recently, within the last year, on a major accident, on my fulltime job as a battalion chief, with an undocumented, unlicensed, uninsured person who killed several people on our freeway in Southern Nevada. That’s a tough issue so I can see both sides of it. I’d have to see the details. I think there’s some merit to the licensing but I’m not sure how far we want to go. "
- John Oceguera Assembly Majority Leader on the idea of giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens so they could get insurance - Tuesday, November 27, 2007.
"Certainly, it’s not another seat we needed to have in this election cycle. We have now 23 seats that we have to defend in this election cycle."
- US Senator John Ensign on the news of Trent Lott imminent resignation from the US Senate - Monday, November 26, 2007.
"What we are doing now is promulgating, more seriously, the present policies which would have precluded an unencrypted, un-passworded, thumb drive, from being taken out of the office.
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- Dr. Milton Glick, President, University of Nevada, Reno on the loss of a thumb drive containing students’ personal information.
- Wednesday, November 21, 2007.
"I’d look to what we did between 1776 and when we organized our Constitution and then up to 1913, we didn’t have it.(an income tax). But we didn’t have an empire to maintain and we weren’t in the welfare business and we had tariffs and we had excise taxes, we had some user fees.
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- Presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul (R), on how he wants to get rid of the IRS and income taxes over time.
- Tuesday, November 20, 2007.
"They got very lively. They heckled, they booed Wolf Blitzer when he let Obama and Hillary Clinton go at it for too long; saying bring the other candidates in. If Senator Edwards was going after Senator Clinton too much they booed him. They really inserted themselves into the debate.
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- Anjeanette Damon, Political Reporter Reno Gazette-Journal on how the audience stole the show at the Nevada Democratic debate in Las Vegas, where she viewed the action from the debate floor.
- Monday, November 19, 2007.
"I think it’s unfortunate that a lot of the expenditure side and tax side discussions are driven by politics, not policy, and with an election coming up that is very important both on the national level and for the caucuses that are coming up. It’s who can make comments that can get them press. I’m sorry, it’s sounds very cynical but that’s exactly the way I see it.
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- Carole Vilardo, Nevada Taxpayers Association, on negative comments directed toward Governor Gibbons for his handling of the current, potential, budget crisis. - Thursday, November 15, 2007.
"The Reno Tahoe event is an absolutely stellar event, from a marketing perspective, which is my end of things. It’s a match made in heaven. They’re out there marketing this great Northern Nevada area to the world and showing off all the great attributes it’s got and drawing more and more tourists to this area and that’s exactly what we want to do and so it’s a perfect vehicle for what we want to do and it’s really a step up for Red.
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- Dave Claflin, VP Marketing, Red Development Inc., on why his company is investing 1.6 million dollars in the Reno Tahoe Open golf tournament over the next two years.
- Wednesday, November 14, 2007.
"I like him a lot and he does a lot of good things. He’s a fantastic cheerleader for the system. But this is government 101 and these kinds of things have happened for as long as we had governments. Because their revenue, no one’s ever been able to figure out in the entire history of the world how to decouple government revenue from the economy. And when the economy waxes and wanes, government revenue waxes and wanes. That’s just a reality that I believe that those who govern us need to be aware of and prepare for.
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- State Senate Bob Beers, on Chancellor Jim Rogers initial refusal to offer potential budget cuts to the NSHE budget that were requested by Governor Gibbons.
- Tuesday, November 13, 2007.
"( Laughter) That’s the first I’ve heard of that. I’m sure Mayor Geno would be happy to hear that. No, I haven’t considered that at all. But thanks for the offer. (Laughter) The pay is better.
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- State Senator Maurice Washington responding to rumors that he would be running for Mayor of Sparks.
- Monday, November 12, 2007.
"From my standpoint the health of the State is a hell of lot more important than whether he gets a second term or not. His political future is problem, not mine.
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- Jim Rogers Chancellor, NSHE, who is pushing for a corporate tax in Nevada on what would happen to Governor Gibbons chances for a 2nd term if he didn’t veto any corporate tax passed by the Legislature.
- Thursday, November 8, 2007.
