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"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.
"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.
