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"I believe, in regard to breaking up the district, if in fact there was clear evidence that student achievement can be improved and there’s a recognized cost, whatever that might be, and I don’t think there’s any question there would be increased cost and the public’s willing to pay that and we don’t have these economic have and have not school districts. Then I think the public should have the right to make that decision, do they want smaller school districts
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- Walt Rulffes, Clark County Superintendent on whether the Clark County School district is too large and should it be broken up.
- Thursday, November 30, 2006.
"I’m trying desperately to be politically correct here, and it’s killing me, but if the sweat starts breaking out please. . . .
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- State Senator Randolph Townsend, on the challenge of the transition from the Governor Guinn to Governor-Elect Gibbons. - Wednesday, November 29, 2006.
"We have excellent coaches. And they understand that the teams have to win on the field, in the classroom and in life. And candidly if they don’t do all three, we have not served the University well, the citizen’s well, but most important, we will not have served our student athletes well.
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- Milton Glick, President UNR, discussing the value of athletics as part of the University.
- Tuesday, November 28, 2006.
"I think some of these senior judges play a key role because there’s such a large case load and this is nationally too, that if you don’t have these senior judges with the experience, they can sit in on certain cases. You’re going to end up going to the Legislature and trying to create additional judgeships that cost a lot of money.
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- David Jacobs, Deputy City Editor Reno Gazette Journal, discussing a benefit of having Senior Judges.
- Monday, November 27, 2006.
"I still think it’s good to elect judges just by what we saw with the Supreme Court overturning the 2/3rd majority requirement to raise taxes and the last judge that overturned that was just voted out. Nancy Saitta just went in because the voters spoke. They were upset about that.
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- Richard Disney, Conservative activist, speaking against appointing judges.
- Wednesday, November 22, 2006.
"It’s like the guy that says if we don’t have kindergarten we’ll save a 100 million dollars. Well the next argument is, well if you don’t have first grade we’ll save 200 million. Pretty soon we can do away with the whole damn system and we’ve saved a lot of money except everybody goes to prison where we really spend a lot of money.
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- Jim Rogers Chancellor of NSHE speaking in favor of all day kindergarten.
- Tuesday, November 21, 2006.
"We are going to just have to prove that we are good to our word and I don’t think there’s any amount of public relations, I don’t think there’s any amount of talking that’s going to overcome it until they see how we behave once we’re a part of their community.
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- Pat Mulroy GM SNWA on the concerns of White Pine County citizens regarding water issues.
- Monday, November 20, 2006.
"You have to appreciate where I’m coming from with this, serving on the State Democratic Party board, but I don’t see a problem. Don’t even show up to the legislature. It’s a long drive. Stay home. Let Barbara do her thing. Not a problem. I’m absolutely OK with this.
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- Teresa Benitez-Thompson Community Activist responding to the discussion of the problems Republican Minority Leader Garn Mabey will have in the Assembly in the upcoming session. - Thursday, November 16, 2006.
"It kinda bleeds out the sides and as soon as an area is defined and redevelopment starts then you really start to see a lot of remodeling, you really start to see other entrepreneurs jumping into the market, being creative with other ideas and so our hope is that we are just the cornerstone of redevelopment and that whole area around Sparks really starts to transform.
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- Par Tolles, President Trammell Crow Nevada, discussing the three phased redevelopment of downtown Sparks they are pursuing and what happens on the periphery. - Wednesday, November 15, 2006.
"They’re not just Democrats, they’re Union Democrats so whatever the various unions at the County want, they’ll get. With Tom Collins, Guinchigliani, Brager I think there (will) be open season.
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- Tom Mitchell Editor Las Review-Journal on the effect of adding Democrats Chris Giunchigliani and Susan Brager to the Clark County Commission.
- Tuesday, November 14, 2006.
"It’s incalculable really. I remarked not to long ago to a reporter from the New York Times that Nevada has had a history, really, of having very great, very powerful United States Senators from Pat McCarran through Paul Bible. But no one has ever attained what Harry has attained. He, in his position, will set the agenda for the United States Senate. It’s just an incredibly powerful position.
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- Frank J. Farenkopf Jr., President and CEO American Gaming Assn. discussing Harry Reid's ascension to Majority Leader of US Senate.
- Monday, November 13, 2006.
"I hope that nobody thinks the 2007 Legislative session is a forum for revisiting what happened in Election 2006.
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- State Senator Mark Amodei speaking to recent post election comments by State Senator Dina Titus regarding Governor Elect Jim Gibbons.
- Thursday, November 9, 2006.
"I never would want a day to pass when a student needed help or assistance and they didn’t get it because either I wasn’t available or they couldn’t get the support that they needed.
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- Andy Kelly, Hug High School Principal, responding to the question of why he allows students direct access to him without going through layers of bureaucracy.
- Wednesday, November 8, 2006.
"We own certificated water rights, we’re using them right now on the ranches. We’re growing substantial crops. What we’ve also agreed to do, though, is to keep some of those water rights there. We’re not going to move all the water rights; that’s crazy. So we’ve made commitments to Lincoln County and to Clark County, to keep some of that water there to use for mitigation.
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- Harvey Whittemore Developer of Coyote Springs commenting on the water rights he owns in Lincoln County and what he’s currently using them for in Coyote Springs. - Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
"As much as Democrats like to think that they’ve got the machine going this time,
I don’t think anybody beats Republicans on “Get Out the Vote”. How they do it, I don’t know but they do a marvelous job at it.
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- Bob Crowell, Kummer Kaempfer, on who has the best ability to get out the vote.
- Monday, November 6, 2006.
"If I had 20-20 hindsight I would have walked through this rainstorm, become soaking wet, in the only one suit I had that day and let it go at that.
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- Congressman Jim Gibbons discussing the events of October 13th when he chose to wait out a storm in a restaurant bar. - Thursday, November 2, 2006.
