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"The first line in my obituary used to read “The last American diplomat to confront Saddam Hussein before the Gulf war.” Course it now reads “The husband of the first American spy to have her identity betrayed by her own government.”
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- Ambassador Joseph Wilson regarding his wife Valerie Plame. - Wednesday, October 3, 2007.
"The Sun was always opposed to the mob influence in Las Vegas. It was how to get them out. Howard Hughes was an orderly responsible, rational way to get rid of the mob. We brought him in here and he bought up all the hotels. He bought them out and that seemed like a pretty sane plan at the time.
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- Brian Greenspun, Editor Las Vegas Sun, on how his father Hank Greenspun was a major player in the plan to remove the mafia from Las Vegas gaming.
- Tuesday, October 2, 2007.
"Right now so much of traditional energy has been subsidized dramatically. We don’t have the same subsidies that the traditional companies and industries do. So at some point we’re going to have to look at that. Whether partnerships are important, as we look at competitiveness but the key is to recognize the tremendous economic opportunity it presents.
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- Tom Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader, on how green power will be competitive pricewise.
- Monday, October 1, 2007.
"Our society keeps that piece hidden very well. The fact that there are so many children out there, so many families living in a homeless situation.
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- Liz MacMenamin Director of Government Affairs, Retail Association of Nevada continuing the discussion of the situation at Whitney Elementary School where 85% of the children are homeless.
- Thursday, September 27, 2007.
"I was shocked walking in the lunch room because we had students taking the ketchup packets and putting them in their pockets and I would ask them, actually I would redirect them, that we don’t do that, leave the ketchup here and they’d be crying that they needed that ketchup for food.
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- Sherrie Gahn, Principal Whitney Elementary School Las Vegas where 85% of the student population is homeless.
- Wednesday, September 26, 2007.
"In Southern Nevada you’ve got Beers and Heck and both of them have some questionable records and both of them are in districts where the trend is Democratic.
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- Dina Titus, Senate Minority Leader on which Republican Senators might lose their seats in the 08 election which could make her the Majority Leader.
- Tuesday, September 25, 2007.
"It’s telling the story that matters. It’s getting the information and being ethical and careful and critical about it.
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- Rosemary McCarthy, Interim Dean of the Reynolds School of Journalism at UNR, on the future of journalism.
- Monday, September 24, 2007.
"With what’s going on in downtown Reno there’s just tremendous opportunity, I think, in the gaming market and even though there’s a lot going on in Indian gaming in the state of California, as a community, if we stay on track with what we’re doing, I think Nevada gaming, especially Northern Nevada, can compete with any market..
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- Rob Cashell Fitzgeralds/Cashell Enterprises on the health of Northern Nevada gaming.
- Thursday, September 20, 2007.
"We’ve got confirmed, right now, Mitt Romney, Presidential candidate, We’ve got Duncan Hunter, Presidential candidate, a Democrat presidential candidate is in the works, it’s tentative but not confirmed yet so I can’t announce it yet. All the other Republican candidates have been invited; we’re still working with some of the others.
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- Chuck Muth, President Citizen Outreach 2007 on the spectacular lineup he has produced for the Conservative Leadership Conference to be held in Northern Nevada Oct 11 -13.
- Wednesday, September 19, 2007.
"MGM has such an incredible land bank surrounding its casinos and underneath some of it’s older casinos that could be redeveloped and I think that the people involved in the company believe that that land is worth more than Wall Street is valuing it, even now. So as long as there’s a difference between how Wall Street values the company and the way Kerkorian values the company, if he thinks it’s worth more, he may opt to take it private with help of a partner like Dubai World.
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- Jeff Simpson, Business Editor and gaming columnist Las Vegas Sun, on the possibility of MGM-Mirage being another major gaming company that could go private. - Tuesday, September 18, 2007.
"We are prepared to do what I call consequence management. First responders are going to be responding to the incident. We’re going to deal with some of the aftermath of the incident and taking care of the families that have been affected by any kind of incident of terrorism.
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- Jeffrey Varnes, CEO Southern Nevada Chapter American Red Cross, on the role of the Red Cross regarding acts of terrorism for which Las Vegas is certainly at risk.
- Monday, September 17, 2007.
"Anybody who thinks that you can win any conflict, particularly one like this, using only the military instrument of power, has not been paying attention for the past 60 years. You can’t employ military force in this kind of environment, in this kind of conflict, without also having the assistance of all the other instruments of power. Where are the other executive departments in assisting in Iraq? No you can’t do that.
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- Col. Jack Jacobs (U.S. Army retired) MSNBC military analyst discussing the poor job the U.S. has done applying diplomatic, economic and political means to the situation in Iraq.
- Thursday, September 13, 2007.
"I think he’s probably doing this because he gets free publicity from the Review-Journal. It’s cheaper than buying his own ads. I would hope he would comply but if he decides to sue us we’ll respond.
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- Bruce Beesley, President-Elect State Bar of Nevada discussing attorney Glen Lerner’s objections to having his TV ads reviewed by the State Bar.
- Wednesday, September 12, 2007.
"Pro Logis being one of the innovators and the first people within Japan looking at actually 7 to 8 story distribution centers where there are approximately 100,000 feet on each level. It’s a phenomenal sight to see.
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- Brandon Page, VP Pro Logis, discussing why his company builds vertically instead of horizontally, in Japan, due to extremely high land costs.
- Tuesday, September 11, 2007.
"Well, I think that you first, have to stop making excuses. There’s a lot of imperfections with “No Child Left Behind” and it seems like lots of times, educators especially, spend lots of time complaining about the imperfections. And I think the decision we made at Hug was we acknowledge that the imperfections are there but the greater calling we have is to educate each and everyone of our kids.
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- Andrew Kelly, Principal Hug High School, discussing the advice he would give other high school principals in how to achieve similar successful results regarding “No Child Left Behind”.
- Monday, September 10, 2007.
"The satellite providers, they increased their advertising over 117% in the market place and you’re gonna see that. You see more and more advertising from ATT. You see more and more advertising from Direct, Dish so definitely the margins are going to shrink as they sink more money into advertising.
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- Manny Martinez, VP General Manager - Charter Communications on the current wars between the TV providers at both ends of the State.
- Thursday, September 6, 2007.
