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"I think everyone, quite frankly, should bleed a little bit, in this situation. We have a major problem for transportation in our state and everybody should do their part.
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- John Oceguera, Majority Leader of the Assembly when asked if the weight distance tax for truckers was dead. - Tuesday, May 15, 2007.
"This is our first appropriation request. We never made one before and I promised that I wouldn’t do that until we had a program that was worthy of asking for money.
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- LeVonne Brooks, CEO High Sierra Industries, on why her non profit should receive State money this biennium despite a current shortfall in the budget.
- Monday, May 14, 2007.
"If they aren’t doing what they do, will that become a state burden? I’m guessing yes.
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- Billy Vassiliadis CEO R&R Partners, on why non profits like The Brain Institute, The Nevada Cancer Center and High Sierra Industries should get State funding at a time when State revenues are limited. - Thursday, May 10, 2007.
"The room tax is now coming up , at least the Convention Authority’s portion (LVCVA) is coming up in every funding discussion and it’s going to line up to be quite a battle.
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- John Griffin, Kummer Kaempfer
- Wednesday, May 9, 2007.
"Well, I think we’d be in a position of looking to recoup, in some way or another, what it is we spent against trying to modify the building.
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- Bill Weidner, President Las Vegas Sands whose company is building the Palazzo tower. Las Vegas Sands is building this as a green project to gain tax benefits which may be in danger at the Legislature.
- Tuesday, May 8, 2007.
"We would have to have action completed, I believe, before the August recess.
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- Republican candidate for President, Senator John McCain, on when comprehensive immigration reform would have to be passed by to become law during this session of Congress.
- Monday, May 7, 2007.
"30% of Medicare goes to diabetes. I think if we had prevention policies (it wouldn’t be that high). 32% of all health care costs are administration; it’s bureaucracy, it’s inefficiency, the failure to have electronic records.
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- Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson on how prevention and efficiency can help in the coming crisis in Medicare.
- Thursday, May 3, 2007.
"Nevada is second to last in the nation in the rate of our high school students who have entered the ninth grade who successfully complete by the twelfth. That’s just unacceptable and empowerment is one approach but it’s not the only approach.
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- State Senator Steven Horsford discussing why he thinks Nevada needs more money for education.
- Wednesday, May 2, 2007.
"I believe there were four non-profits that accounted for almost 50 million dollars.
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- Carole Vilardo, President Nevada Taxpayers Association, on where you cut the State budget now that revenues are not matching projections.
- Tuesday, May 1, 2007.
"Distribution and manufacturing is still the backbone of Northern Nevada. And so anything that decreases our competitive edge, we get very sensitive to it. We’re swatting it out everyday trying to wave our flag to attract good paying companies to this area. Attacks like this, it worries us.
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- Par Tolles CB Richard Ellis/Trammell Crow discussing the proposed weight/distance tax, from the Assembly Democrats, on the trucking industry and how it affects the commercial real estate industry. - Monday, April 30, 2007.
"As much as people want to talk about keeping government growth down and government spending down, it just isn’t realistic. In the fastest growing state in the country for 20 years in a row, when you have 37,000 new kids show up every year for an education, they deserve the same desk, the same book, the same teacher as the kids that came before them. And saying somehow a 2 or 3% inflation rate is going to keep up with 19 to 20% growth is just craziness.
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- Pete Ernaut R & R Partners
- Thursday, April 26, 2007.
"I think the school district needs to get out there, in the community and really really illustrate their needs to the general public because it’s going to take some money.
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- Pat Coward, Carrera Nevada on the Washoe County School District failure to keep their real estate tax funding bill alive in the State Senate.
- Wednesday, April 25, 2007.
"We’re not training enough physicians in this State and in this Country. Secondly they’re headed towards the same baby boomer cycle the rest of us are and thirdly they’re under threat as far as their income. When you have, let’s say, a family practitioner making less than $100,000 a year. He’s a small businessman having to take all those risks, the attractiveness goes away.
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- Ed Epperson President and CEO Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare on the need to support physicians.
- Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
"I have some problems with toll roads. I think they’re more of an Eastern mindset than a Western mindset and whatever we do, there has to be mass transit component, because I do have people telling me they want to get out of their cars.
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- State Senator Maggie Carlton Clark #2, on The Governor’s proposal for public private partnerships to alleviate the 3.8 billion dollar roads shortfall.
- Monday, April 23, 2007.
"We'd much rather spend our money on education
and other things than building more prisons.
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- State Senator Mike McGinnis looking for ways to ease the prison overcrowding crisis by perhaps releasing non-violent offenders, people who are in prison for drugs, and giving them counseling and rehab.
- Thursday, April 19, 2007.
"If the gaming people would support it: a tax on a room, my understanding, for every dollar room tax, would make about 45 million dollars per year.
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- Assembly Minority Leader Garn Mabey (D) on one of the ways he would support raising revenues to meet the 3.8 billion shortfall for transportation with mainly tourists footing the bill.
- Wednesday, April 18, 2007.
