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"We think it’s vital for everyone involved. Because K 12 is the largest part of the budget and we think that relationship needs to stay at a level that will really make a difference. Currently it’s not there.
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- Terry Hickman, Executive Director, Nevada State Education Assn
on his inability to meet with Governor Gibbons.
- Tuesday, February 13, 2007.
"There’s no perfect system. What we have though, is the worst system. What we’re trying to do is make it better. Where the criteria for election of a judge is, that they be able to raise the most money and run the most negative campaign. I think that’s the worst system.
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- Rew Goodenow, President State Bar of Nevada, discussing reforms the State Bar would like to see put in place for the election of judges. - Monday, February 12, 2007.
"No where does it say the road has to be built and the ribbon has to be cut and the trucks running on it. If it’s part of the plans, if they got to grade it, if they got a fence on it, if it’s even in their master plans to be built, that constitutes using it.
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- Kermitt Waters Attorney defending the PISTOL initiative, against concerns that all lands purchased through Eminent Domain would revert to the original owners if the road was not built within 5 years.
- Friday, February 9, 2007.
"It is the good old boys network. It’s the people who want to dictate exactly how everyone votes in the Legislature, rather than having them represent their district and vote what their district wants. It’s those folks who are angry at Ty both in the Democratic and the Republican parties.
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- Paul Mozen, Health Care Consultant, on the ongoing brew ha-ha over Assemblyman Ty Cobb not following tradition by not voting in favor of the election of Barbara Buckley to become Speaker of the Assembly. - Thursday, February 8, 2007.
"I have sworn affidavits from people who say under penalty of perjury “I was at a party at Lake Mead and they showed us how to forge signatures”.
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- Danny Thompson Executive Director/Secretary AFL- CIO who claims to have uncovered massive fraud in the TASC initiative, not from the proponents but from the people they hired to collect signatures.
- Tuesday, February 6, 2007.
"It’s called taking power away from them, of course they’re not going to like it.
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- Randi Thompson, on remarks made by the State Superindent of Education and the School Superintendents of Washoe and Clark Counties on why they said “What is this?” the day after the State of the State, in reference to the Governors Empowerment Program. - Monday, February 5, 2007.
"Most of his allies are running for the Democratic nomination to be President; which says something about, maybe, some problems that he’s got.
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- Larry Matheis, Executive Director Nevada State Medical Association, discussing President Bush’s chances of getting immigration reform through this Congress.
- Thursday, February 1, 2007.
"Out of respect, not only for my office, as a constitutional officer, I was invited by the Governor, but as respect for the Governor. You know we are all united now. We’re looking out for the best interests of the state and we should be working together.
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- Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada Attorney General, on why as a Democrat, she attended the Republican Governor’s Inaugural Ball.
- Wednesday, January 31, 2007.
"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.
