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"There’s a real need for electronic filing, the public clearly wants to look at this information as is evidenced by yesterday and so we’ve got to have electronic filing so they have immediate access to the information.
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- Ross Miller Nevada Secretary of State responding to charges that he had not filed his financial disclosure forms on time when in fact he done so but it hadn’t made it to his web site due to an overworked staff and staffing shortages in his office. - Tuesday, January 30, 2007.
"Well you’ve got guys like Richardson who are Westerners and I know Dick here, is very supportive of Kucinich.
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- Alfredo Alonso, The Law Firm of Lewis and Roca, teasing Republican Dick Gammick over the Democratic Caucus in Nevada and who might win in an upset over Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
- Monday, January 29, 2007.
"Harrah’s Reno is such a small part of that overall company so maybe if they spun it off to a medium sized company, to where Harrah’s Reno would be a big dog in that plan then we’d get some money and remodel and do things like that.
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- Bob Cashell, Mayor of Reno, discussing rumors that Harrah’s Reno might be divested due to the upcoming leveraged buyout and his hope that the name could be franchised.
- Thursday, January 25, 2007.
"That’s the fun of the Legislative session.
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- Assemblywoman Bonnie Parnell on how the Legislature could push through full day kindergarten.
- Wednesday, January 24, 2007.
"I talked to Mayor Bloomberg yesterday morning for about a half hour on it. He is so excited about it. He’s put nearly four hundred of his schools in New York City into this Empowerment program. It gives parents choice of schools. It gives the teachers and principals the ability to control not just the curriculum for these students but the budgets for the school and it gives the teachers pay for performance based on meaningful standards by which they can be measured.
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- Governor Jim Gibbons, in his first interview following his State of the State speech on his Empowerment Program.
- Tuesday, January 23, 2007.
"In the past, because we haven’t had a professional in this office, one that has a lot of management accounting experience, experience acting as Controller, they haven’t used the Controllers office the way they should. The Controller is the CFO of the state.
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- State Controller Kim Wallin on why she wasn’t brought in on the budget process.
- Monday, January 22, 2007.
"My intent was not everything needs to be a new law. Sometimes we should do it because it’s the right thing to do without codifying it.
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- State Senator Valerie Weiner on the success in getting unhealthy foods out of school vending machines, snack boxes and lunches on a voluntary basis.
- Thursday, January 18, 2007.
"For years we’ve had programs with thousands of profoundly gifted children, around the country, where we counseled them on how to deal with schools. So the schools would meet their needs and so in a sense we were always bargaining with the schools trying to get them to meet the needs. Well now we are the school. Now we’re on the other end of that.
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- Bob Davidson The Davidson Institute who along with his wife founded the Davidson Academy for the Profoundly Gifted.
- Wednesday, January 17, 2007.
"I’ll turn the phone off. That’s probably Senator Titus calling on the phone right now. So I’ll put it away.
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- State Senator Bill Raggio, joking in response to his cell phone going off during his interview, when he had been asked about Senator Titus, who on the campaign trail, had heavily promoted full day kindergarten and in a previous answer he had said he didn - Tuesday, January 16, 2007.
"That is so Jim Rogers!
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- Marlene Lockard Capital Strategies on NSHE Chancellor Jim Rogers two word memo resigning his post by writing “I Quit” He rescinded his resignation before the three day grace period was up and continues in that position.
- Monday, January 15, 2007.
"In terms of political image, Governor Gibbons really has a challenge. The challenge is to get out of your comfort zone with some of the choices who are in your back yard, people you might have know for a long time, to stretch out a little bit and make some choices from the South. It is important. Obviously 70%of the population or more lives down here in Clark County so it makes no sense politically for him to circle the wagons, as it were, with so many choices from the North. "
- John L. Smith columnist, Las Vegas Review Journal discussing Governor Gibbons’ appointments. - Thursday, January 11, 2007.
"I think Garn is doing a good job. And I think he is new to the position and everyone needs to take a breath and let him do the job. It is easy to be critical. We are all Republicans and I am hoping that we’ll all work together and move forward. And I can tell you that the caucus supports Garn whole heartedly, as do I, as leader and I am looking forward to working with him in that position. "
- Heidi Gansert, Assemblywoman, (R) Washoe #25, discussing Republican Assembly Minority Leader Garn Mabey’s performance. - Wednesday, January 10, 2007.
"I think the thing we have got to keep in mind is the most important thing we can do to increase the quality of higher education is to increase the quality of students that come to us. It doesn’t do us any good to run down public education (K-12) to try and see their budget diverted to us, if the end result is that the kids coming out of the pipeline aren’t prepared for college. So we are acting in our own self interested when we are supporting public education. "
- Dan Klaich, Executive Vice Chancellor, Nevada System Higher Education, discussing higher education and the public school system (K-12) working together to improve the education system in Nevada. - Tuesday, January 9, 2007.
"I would take it to court under the aspect that I think it does a detriment to the voters in the fact that I should have the right to determine who my representative is going to be. And as a Legislator or someone that wants to run for office it hampers my right to continue to seek office because that is my right under the constitution. "
- Maurice Washington, State Senator (R) Washoe # 2, discussing his views on term limits. - Monday, January 8, 2007.
"I am a conservative first, a Republican second. And a Republican who doesn’t follow what it is supposed to mean to be a Republican deserves to be criticized for wandering too far off the ranch. And if they are really bad I will do the same thing I have done in the past. We’ll find a good conservative Republican to challenge them in the primary and try to take them out. That is just part of politics."
- Chuck Muth discussing a letter from Paul Adams sent to all Republican leaders that address party principles and the focus on electing Republicans and defeating Democrats. Adams is against organizing internal beatings of fellow Republicans. - Thursday, January 4, 2007.
"These kids are at such high risk to follow their parents into prison. We know that if a child has one parent in prison they are 70% more likely to go to prison themselves unless they have something like a ‘Big Brother’ or ‘Big Sister’ in their life. And if they have 2 parents in prison they are 90% more likely to follow their parents into prison."
- Pat Fling, discussing the importance of the Big Brothers & Big Sisters program that was developed for children who have parents in prison. - Wednesday, January 3, 2007.
