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"My older sister is 18 and she is very political and has quite a lot of opinions on everything and I wasn’t really OK with not being able to argue with her about things so that’s how I got interested.
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- Julia Lopez, student Carson City High School, on how she became involved in politics.
- Tuesday, December 26, 2006.
"He is very obstinate. He believes in obstruction. And I can’t work like that. I have to work with the 27 Democrats. And for me to just dig in my heels and say, hey it’s our way, it doesn’t work.
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- Garn Mabey, Republican Assembly Minority Leader, defending his leadership against
attacks by columnist Chuck Muth. - Wednesday, December 20, 2006.
"That decision to build the freeway, where we’re building it today, was certainty not an engineering decision, it was a political decision and it was made over 20 years ago. In the past 20 years we’ve made investments in right of way, engineering so we couldn’t back away from that project. We have a similar project in Southern Nevada, the Boulder City bypass. Where we could have gone in and done a less expensive alternative alignment or construction of a bypass around town but the residents there, because of their quality of life and concern about the impacts, wanted an alternative that is further south of town, it’s gonna cost us more money.
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- Jeff Fontaine, Director of Nevada Division of Transportation, explaining that politics trumps engineering when some local communities force a more expensive alternative in where roads go. - Tuesday, December 19, 2006.
"When Governor Guinn came in I think there was pretty good cooperation. That’s not to say that I don’t think that we have good cooperation now I think we do. (Shad, “Really?”) I mean it’s from the budget standpoint. I think we do.
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- Andrew Clinger, State Budget Director, discussing the cooperation between the current and future administration on budget issues.
- Monday, December 18, 2006.
"The County Commissioners in Clark County have authorized the hiring of about 120 new employees down there. Those employees are being assigned to a number of the problem areas whether that’s Child Haven supervision, improving our ability to respond on a 24/7 basis, on child protective services complaints, recruiting more foster parents downsizing or increasing the case load ratios (so) that case workers have smaller case loads.
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- Mike Willden, State Director of the Department of Health and Human Services, on some of the steps being taken to resolve the problems in Clark County regarding child welfare.
- Wednesday, December 13, 2006.
"I always hope there’s gonna be good policy bills that come through the Legislature but I haven’t seen anything yet, at this point, that I can identify like that.
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- Carole Vilardo, President Nevada Taxpayers Association, in response to the question “Are there any good policy bills that you can see coming through the upcoming legislature?”
- Tuesday, December 12, 2006.
"Where’s the evidence that armed teachers prevent shootings in schools. Let’s hope he’s got some evidence to back this proposal before he’s laughed out of the chamber.
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- Pam duPre Democratic Activist on Bob Beers’s proposal to have armed teachers in class rooms.
- Monday, December 11, 2006.
"Ahm…Let’s see, what’s the politically correct way to deflect that question?. Oh yeah, I think that Lorraine Hunt and I both, are very excited to be helping with the transition for the new Governor and looking forward to a prosperous 8 years for all of Nevada.
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- State Senator Bob Beers was asked if Lt Governor Lorraine Hunt had thrown her support to Senator Beers in the primary, would Beers now be Governor.
- Monday, December 11, 2006.
"The best Speaker or head of a body has folks a little bit afraid of them but by fear, what we really mean is respect and hope that they are able to have a vision and a leadership and not afraid to use their power for good things; to achieve good things for either the country or the state.
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- Barbara Buckley, Speaker of the Assembly, on being asked if to be effective do people have to fear the Speaker whether it be of the House of Representatives or the Nevada Assembly.
- Thursday, December 7, 2006.
"It’s not about buying ala carte services anymore. Customers want a collection of services, for which the more they buy, the more they want to be rewarded for that, by better pricing. And we know that’s a very important thing for us to be able to do.
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- Hal Lenox, President AT&T, Nevada, on why AT&T will seek legislation to help level the playing field in their ability to compete with smaller companies cherry picking their market.
- Wednesday, December 6, 2006.
"It’s always in my mind, well so what! If we were asleep back then (1997 session) so be it. I don’t think we were, but we’re not asleep now, and we’ve got the needs and we need to go forward and I’m not worried about pointing fingers at anybody back in 97. That’s gone, but we have to show the case and I know we can, that we need to be on an equal footing. We need that additional revenue and we’re going to forward and go after it.
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- Paul Dugan, Washoe County School District Superintendent, answering the question of whether the school district has been asleep at the wheel by not getting additional revenue sources to help with building new schools and fixing up old schools.
- Tuesday, December 5, 2006.
"I think there are some areas, maybe all day kindergarten, some of the other things, when you’ve got the pension issues that we have and roadway issue and I think that Gibbons just looks at differently than Guinn does so I think you’re going to see a different budget.
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- Mike Alonso, Attorney Jones Vargas, on whether Governor-Elect Jim Gibbons will present a radically changed budget from the one Governor Guinn is putting together for the 2007 legislative session.
- Monday, December 4, 2006.
"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.
