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"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.
"She (Lorraine Hunt) has to, she is far behind in the polls. I think Mr. Gibbons has a pretty comfortable lead so obviously anybody behind him is going to have to start that attack, whether that be on Education First or something else I fully expect that, this should come as no surprise to anybody. "
- Alfredo Alonso, Firm of Lewis and Roca, discussing the Hunt Campaign’s attack on gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons. - Wednesday, April 19, 2006.
"I think that term limits are unconstitutional especially in the state of Nevada and I think it should be challenged. It should go all the way up to the Supreme Court and challenge the validity of term limits."
- Maurice Washington, State Senator ( R ) Washoe # 2 discussing term limits. - Tuesday, April 18, 2006.
"Personally, from my experience serving for the last eight years I don’t think you can legislate ethics. I have served with some extremely ethical people and I have served with people whose ethics I find very questionable. I think the voters can tell where people line up and the voters are pretty good at separating the ethical and the unethical people, so I am not sure it is just about laws. I think it is about a climate where we all have to take more responsibility for our actions. "
- Sheila Leslie, Assemblywoman ( D ) Washoe District 27, discussing legislation promoting ethical behavior for office holders. - Monday, April 17, 2006.
"To put somebody under term limits and just say be in there, be out, nice to see you, next group, in, out, I’ll tell you it is going to be the lobbyists and the bureaucrats that will run the state under that scenario. I have seen it. I will guarantee you that is what is going to happen and that is not good for Nevada. "
- Randolph Townsend, State Senator ( R ) Washoe # 4, discussing Nevada legislature term limits. - Thursday, March 30, 2006.
"It is terrible for me to read as I am reading his obituary and I am listening to people talking about him, that this is so frequently mentioned, when other things that this noble wonderful man did for our country are second and tertiary to the mentioning that he was involved in the Iran-Contra. When this is a man who fought against it, fought against the ideas, fought against going forward with some of the policy and indeed was unaware of many of the things that occurred that are now referred to as Iran-Contra."
- Marybel Batjer, who spent seven years working for Casper Weinberger at the Defense Department, who died this past week. - Wednesday, March 29, 2006.
"I forecast, at our current pace, the known entitled land, we’ve got about six more years and then what I think will happen then is we will go back downtown and we will go vertical and we will see new high rises come into play in downtown at that point in time."
- Tim Ruffin, Senior Vice President, Colliers International, discussing the future of development in Reno. - Tuesday, March 28, 2006.
"Immunity is amnesty, we feel very strongly, and the President just this morning was talking about it, as they were swearing in new immigrants. Anything that allows people who are here illegally, I mean we do live under a rule of law, that allows those folks to skip ahead of line, ahead of those who have been waiting outside of the country going through the processes, is certainly not going to be something that we are going to support. "
- Scott Bensing, Chief of Staff, Senator John Ensign, discussing the controversy over immigration reform. - Monday, March 27, 2006.
"Well, that has been part of the problem, because of the numbers we don’t really know, but I need to make it real clear that that tax cap needed to happen…Now we need to find out exactly how much of a hit, we know that it is going to be less than what we originally thought before the tax cap and that coupled with the rising cost of construction fees and supplies have really hurt us with regards to having the money that we need to deal with older school and with new school construction. "
- Paul Dugan, Washoe County School District Superintendent, discussing the effect the property tax cap will have on the Washoe County School District. - Thursday, March 23, 2006.
