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"IT’S NOT SOMETHING THAT WILL GO AWAY AND BE ABANDONED
THE PLAN IS TO HAVE IT RETRIEVABLE FOR THREE HUNDRED YEARS. IT WILL BE STUDIED AND IF THERE ARE SURPRISES I THINK PEOPLE WILL KNOW WELL AHEAD OF TIME
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- Harold McFarlane
President of the American Nuclear Society discussing the nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain.
- Wednesday, June 7, 2006.
"FOLLOW THE POLITICS, FOLLOW THE MONEY
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- Mary Lau President and CEO of the Retail Association of Nevada -
Discussing the state commissioner of labor’s decision to start enforcing a 30 year old law on exempt employees that would result in $5000 fines per offense concerning time records.
- Tuesday, June 6, 2006.
"THE GOVERNOR ‘S VERY INVOLVED IN EVERY ASPECT OF RUNNING STATE GOVERNMENT AND EVERY AGENCY
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- Renee Parker Chief Council to Gov Guinn answering the question what does the Governor have to do in the last few months of his term. - Monday, June 5, 2006.
"Bill and Melinda Gates have been very generous and have given about $29 billion. "
- Jacquelline Fuller, Global Health Advocacy Manager - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, discussing the family foundation that Bill and Melinda Gates have personally funded to help the worlds “poorest of the poor” - Thursday, May 11, 2006.
"We identified the person who was the right next President for U.N.R. and then we went after him and we looked at the salary he was already making, what he could make at other places were he to apply and be successful and we went out to get him because we knew it was the right choice. "
- Jill Derby, ( D) Candidate for Congressional District 2, defending the Board of Regents unanimous vote to give Milton Glick the job as President of UNR and a four-year contract at an annual salary of $400,000. - Wednesday, May 10, 2006.
"We are not going to use the Old Reno Casino license at this location, (Lazy 8 in Sparks) in fact within the next couple of weeks we are going to propose new locations. We are having discussions as to where those are probably going to be and we need to tie all of those things up, we will probably do that in the next 90 days or so.
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- Harvey Whittemore, Chairman and Owner of Wingfield Nevada Group, discussing future plans for the Old Reno Casino gaming license.
- Tuesday, May 9, 2006.
"The total number of people, depending upon the unit count, could be somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 people total assuming total build out."
- Harvey Whittemore, Chairman and Owner of Wingfield Nevada Group, discussing Coyote Springs a city he is building located about an hour outside of Las Vegas. - Monday, May 8, 2006.
"It is as it appears, but on other occasions, there is a lot of serious work being done that doesn’t generate the publicity you observed. And that substantial work doesn’t garner the headlines. It is 62% serious work stuff getting done, the public never knows about. The balance of it is all of the entertainment generated by the media out of Washington D.C."
- Jim Santini, former 4-term Nevada Congressman, discussing the functionality of government in Washington D.C. - Thursday, May 4, 2006.
"Mercury is one of those very strange elements that when it is released into the air it tends to stay there for a long time and travel long distances. Mercury in the air over the United States could have come from a coal fire power plant in China; it could have come from a hot springs in New Zealand. It is very difficult to say where it came from. "
- Russ Fields, President, Nevada Mining Assn., discussing mercury contamination. - Wednesday, May 3, 2006.
"They (scientists working on the Yucca Mountain project) sent emails to each other talking about falsifying the information in the model and the USGS supervisor at that time was aware of it, the quality assurance official was aware of it, nobody did anything. Finally in March of 2005 it came to the attention of a senior DOE official and they started the investigation, the report was just released. "
- Joan Lambert, former Legislator and member of the Governor’s Commission on Nuclear Projects, discussing some of the shenanigans involved with the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository. - Tuesday, May 2, 2006.
"I think what we need to do is tighten up our borders, make sure that our borders are secure, make sure that we are giving the American public the protection that they expect and demand and then we can go after the employers who are out there, who are hiring people illegally and crack down on employers. And when you start doing what this law in this country has already intended to do, there really isn’t much you really need to correct."
- Jim Gibbons ( R ) Candidate for Governor, discussing his position on immigration reform. - Monday, May 1, 2006.
"I will be out raised when it comes to fundraising, but I will not be out worked and that is how I will win this race, as a real strong grass roots outreach, meeting with people, shaking their hands, letting them know that they have a choice this election and that I am the better choice. "
- Tessa Hafen, candidate for US Congress District 3, discussing fund raising for her race against Congressman Jon Porter. - Thursday, April 27, 2006.
"His (Rob Mequon, CEO of US Gold) view on gold and our view collectively inside US Gold is that gold is going to hit $800 or $850. His predictions are, somewhere around 2010, you are going to see real strength, in that, because of world wide consumption as India, China, Korea, and Russia start coming on stream and their consumption goes up in all metals. But certainly we will see it in the gold sector, you will continue to see a very strong gold price. "
- Ann Carpenter, President and Chief Operating Officer - US Gold Corporation, a US-based (Denver, CO) mineral development company discussing the rising price of gold. - Wednesday, April 26, 2006.
"This program is really compensation that is supposed to offset the cost of medical care…This isn’t we will pay for your medical care for the rest of your life, it is a set of money that was set aside back in 1990 and said, you know, people have suffered as a result of the Nevada testing that was done and also testing in other parts of the world, therefore we will give them some money to compensate for the damage that was received."
- Dr. Hunt discussing the NV Radiation Exposure Screening and Education project that offers minimal medical compensation to those that lived in counties near where the above ground atomic tests took place in NV during the 50s and 60s that contracted cancer. - Tuesday, April 25, 2006.
"I think incentivizing teachers to stay in those at-risk schools can be accomplished by giving them some extra pay, as we talked about, because they need to demonstrate growth in those schools and they can do that. "
- Debbie Smith, Assemblywoman ( D ) Washoe District 30, discussing strategies to keep the more experienced teachers in at risk schools. - Monday, April 24, 2006.
"The Community Colleges are an important part of developing an educated workforce for the state. If you look at the fields, construction, manufacturing, health, education, the fields that are important to the state, those are active hands on programs and the colleges who can help are the community colleges and we are ready, willing and able. "
- Carol Lucey, President of Western Nevada Community College, discussing the need for an educated workforce that the community colleges provide. - Thursday, April 20, 2006.
