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"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.
"He is the Chief Executive. He does not have to go to the Legislature to ask permission. Out of courtesy you do. But to not ask permission, you advise them all in the appropriate time.
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- Mary Lau President/CEO Retail Association of Nevada regarding complaints from state leaders that the Governor did not inform them in advance of his request for potential budget cuts.
- Wednesday, November 7, 2007.
"We put nearly one billion dollars of new spending, over and above the last biennial budget, in this budget, one billion dollars. We’re asking just for a portion of that, to be able to ramp down that increase in new spending. We’re not really cutting anything. We’re slowing the increase of spending down. It’s much different than the projections and the forecasts and sort of the hand ringing that I see going on from a lot of different sectors.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons in response to the criticisms of his potential 5% budget cuts.
- Tuesday, November 6, 2007.
"Well, it was the public that pointed it out to us that gaming was where they would like to see the tax increase occur. We provided, in our survey, other possibilities, some sort of business tax, some sort of mining increase, that sort of thing and gaming is where they said that they would support increases to help fund K12 education.
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- Lynn Warne, President NV State Education Association, on why they decided upon an increase in the gross gaming tax as a way to support K12 education.
- Monday, November 5, 2007.
"We’ve had some private phone calls that were, how do you put it in your world, frank and open. Part of them probably weren’t politically correct but we’re trying to get to the bottom of it. We are working on new language that hopefully will satisfy the concerns that we don’t think are valid but we’re going to make a good faith effort and get this resolved.
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend, on the failure of the Legislative Commission to agree on the clarifying language of the Green law. - Thursday, November 1, 2007.
"Certainly on the business side we already are a competitor to television. The car dealers up and down Kietzke decide where to put their money and they are going to put some of it with us and some of it with broadcast and certainly both sides would like a bigger slice of that pie.
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- Ted Power, Publisher Reno Gazette Journal, on whether newspapers are now in direct competition with television stations.
- Wednesday, October 31, 2007.
"In my school system we met with students to try and find out just exactly the way they wanted to learn, that they would learn best. And it was amazing; they said if we could podcast our reports, if we could instant message our teachers. If that’s the way that they are going to learn, then that’s the way we need to teach them.
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- Linda Williams AASL Chair of the No Child Left Behind task force answering the question “Is the internet the greatest threat to students reading books”.
- Tuesday, October 30, 2007.
"Across the United States 12% of the population, those over the age of 65, are using 42% of the health care. So a minor shift in over age 65 population causes a significant shift in utilization. And that’s what we anticipate in the next several years in our community.
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- Jim Miller, President & CEO Renown Health on why there is guaranteed growth in the hospital industry. - Monday, October 29, 2007.
"Who doesn’t hate that but the reality is they have come and we have to absorb them and then we have to find a way to streamline the entry process for people who have the credentials and have done the hard work. They have to be rewarded.
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- Clay Jenkinson, Presidential Historian, on the complaints of legal aliens who are unhappy that illegal aliens might get a path to citizenship ahead of others who have applied legally.
- Thursday, October 25, 2007.
