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"So we are very comfortable and believe very strongly that the Department of Justice, likewise, will come to the conclusion that these claims and these assertions and the almost hysteria, that the detractors of the merger are putting forth, will not come to bear because statistically speaking, what they are saying is just not true and it’s just not valid.
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- Jonathan Bunker, President and COO Sierra Health Services, Inc talking about the impending merger with United Health and how it will not be monopolistic.
- Tuesday, August 28, 2007.
"I think it’s more the sub-prime, frankly, in looking at the portfolios and that’s why we are trying to mitigate what has happened with the new program.
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- Mendy K. Elliot Director of Business and Industry in the Gibbons administration -
On whether predatory lending practices in Nevada are responsible for the massive foreclosure rates and what the Governor intends to do about the situation. - Monday, August 27, 2007.
"I disagree. I disagree. I think we need a portfolio of energy in this country and to cut off a source, a major source that’s going to have huge impacts on Southern Nevada, eastern part of the State and even selling some of that energy across the country. I think it’s a mistake.
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- Congressman Dean Heller 2nd Congressional District, responding to Senator Reid’s call to prevent three coal fired electricity plants from being built in White Pine County. - Thursday, August 23, 2007.
"Iran imports half of their gasoline even though they have tremendous reserves of oil. Half of their food comes from out of the country. They’ve got domestic unrest. So they would be susceptible to sanctions.
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- Presidential candidate, Governor Bill Richardson on what basis the US, in conjunction with Russia, China and our European allies, could use sanctions to stop the Iranians from building nuclear weapons.
- Wednesday, August 22, 2007.
"This is one of those things where maybe it was “early to ripe, early to rot”.
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- Pete Ernaut R & R Partners on John Edwards’ main advisors moving out of Nevada.
- Tuesday, August 21, 2007.
"We should start redeploying troops within 60 days. We should have all of our troops out of Iraq by the first of May, except for those dealing with counter terrorism, dealing with training the Iraqis and force protection. There should be no permanent American bases in Iraq. None!
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- US Senator Harry Reid’s timeline for US withdrawal from Iraq.
- Monday, August 20, 2007.
"As long as you don’t use the publicly available numbers you can invent any number you want.
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- Larry Mathias Nevada State Medical Association disclaiming Sierra Health and United Health’s claim, that with the merger they will only control 28% of the market in Northern Nevada and 35% in Southern Nevada.
- Thursday, August 16, 2007.
"The extent to which local television news has become more shallow and more entertainment oriented and more superficial, I think, can be laid, largely, at the feet of consultants and people who listen to them and think everything they say is gospel.
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- Tad Dunbar, retired news anchor KOLO TV Reno, bemoaning the increased influence of television news consultants.
- Wednesday, August 15, 2007.
"There are three main sources that led to the decline of water clarity. Nitrogen that gets into the lake, phosphorous that gets into the lake and also sediment or particles. Anyone of those three has been linked to the decline in water clarity and so when you have a fire like this, you increase the amount of nitrogen and phosphorous that can get into the lake because it mobilizes that, plus you also get particles that are given off in the fire some of which can deposit.
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- Dr Alan Gertler, Desert Research Institute, on the effect of the Angora fire at Lake Tahoe and its effect on the lake’s stunning clarity.
- Tuesday, August 14, 2007.
"Yes, I do think they should be built.
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- Congressman Jon Porter Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District disagreeing with Senator Reid over the planned coal power plants in White Pine County. Senator Reid favors renewable energy power plants.
- Monday, August 13, 2007.
"I think we can do better than that.
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- John Lopez, Chief of Staff to John Ensign, when asked if Republicans can hold onto at least 18 of the 22 seats that are in contention in 2008.
- Thursday, August 9, 2007.
"My position is, like many I will take as editor, is we’re going to let our readers decide that and we have gone down that path now and I’m sure they will tell us what they feel about it.
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- Beryl Love, Executive Editor, Reno Gazette Journal, on his newspaper now accepting brothel advertising. - Wednesday, August 8, 2007.
"I want people to be able to have some exposure to those guys while they’re still alive and still kicking, still doing their thing. But also to have an opportunity to do what we can to encourage those young artists coming up, to be able get some exposure.
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- Charles McNeely, Reno City Manager, on why he is producing the 3rd annual Reno Tahoe Blues Festival
- Tuesday, August 7, 2007.
"From the second I did it I was completely hooked.
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- Shawna Braselton a student who became addicted to methamphetamine in attempt to lose the 50 lbs she had gained in her freshman year of college. She describes how addictive this substance is.
- Monday, August 6, 2007.
"I thought it was a cheap shot. I haven’t been on the board of that Sierra Health Company since May of 2005. I had no part of any decision on that. I’m a shareholder like a great many people.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio’s response to a headline suggesting that the Senator could reap a windfall from United Health’s proposed purchase of Sierra Health Services.
- Thursday, August 2, 2007.
"Young girls getting started, because they want to lose weight. This drug, because it’s a synthetic drug is so detrimental and devastating not just to the individual , not just to you physically, but to your family, to society, to your community and we need to get a handle on this and we’re not going to stop.
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- Catherine Cortez Masto, Attorney General-State of Nevada, on her fight against methamphetamine.
- Wednesday, August 1, 2007.
