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"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.
"Yes, I am sure that we did. This was all done by NSA at the time but I know we had the results of those wiretaps, or the intercepts because they are really not wire taps that is a misnomer that the press often uses because it is a totally different process, which is of course classified. "
- Ed Meese, Former U.S. Attorney General, discussing wire tap and intercepts done without going through the FISA court, during the Reagan administration. - Wednesday, March 22, 2006.
"When I became a Democrat people were marching in the streets for civil rights, Martin Luther King was alive, the Vietnam war was going on, and to me at that time that is what the Democratic party represented the party of social change, the party that stood up for what was right. Unfortunately, over the ensuing years I think they have lost their way. After looking good and hard at things after the last election and being involved in the party politics it occurred to me that I really had more in common with the Republican Party, and I switched last July to be a Republican. "
- Dr. Paul Mozen, ( R ) candidate for Assembly District 26, discussing why he changed his party to the Republican Party. - Tuesday, March 21, 2006.
"I am not supporting either of the initiatives. If someone wants to vote for me, I am more than happy to have them vote for me if that is the way you want your government handled. However I do warn you, if you have someone running for a representative office such as Assembly District 26 and all they talk about are initiatives, you need to ask yourself if they are the type of person you want representing you because that sort of shifts the responsibility off of them. You have to say okay what do you really stand for and if they can’t come forward and say how they are going to be as representatives of the people then you have got a problem. "
- Ty Cobb, ( R ) candidate for Assembly District 26, discussing Prop 13 and TASC initiatives and how he feels about the initiative process. - Monday, March 20, 2006.
"We settled with Enron because it was quite clear that in the long run our customers, our owners, the state of Nevada, would be better off if that uncertainty, that potential problem, could be put behind us we could start focusing on the things that matter not a fight about things from the past.
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- Walt Higgins Chairman & CEO, Sierra Pacific Resources, discussing the Enron settlement of $90 million compared to the $330 million they were supposed to pay to Enron
- Thursday, March 16, 2006.
