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"We’re in a unique position of having to respond to a body that’s still try to figure out how it’s going to operate for the next 120 days."
- Bryan Wachter, Senior VP, Government and Public Affairs, Retail Association of Nevada says it’s very strange in Carson City right now and it’s going to be very important for the public and lobbyists to get their amendments and testimony out there to Legislators. - Thursday, February 4, 2021.
"You’ve got to keep working at it. It’s a world of rejection."
- Laura Newman, Author who recently published her latest book” The Franklin Avenue Rookery for Wayward Babies.” She applied to 75 literary agents and only three responded to her. - Wednesday, February 3, 2021.
"Some of us physicians who have had our vaccine, myself included, even cried when we got our first shot."
- Dr. Jay K. Morgan MD, Neurosurgeon, Sierra Neurosurgery Group says he recommends people to get the coronavirus vaccine when available to them. - Tuesday, February 2, 2021.
"They managed to not only piggyback but get inside of legitimate software that was being downloaded to people’s computers."
- Kerry Nemovicher, CEO, Crytica Security describing what occurred during the Solar Winds computer attack. He says we may see the effects of this hack for years to come. - Friday, January 29, 2021.
"I think it would be a terrible outcome if it’s done away with."
- Former Governor Robert List on the filibuster. Senator Reid, on the other hand, wanted President Biden to give the Republicans three weeks before blowing it up if Democrats deemed it necessary. - Thursday, January 28, 2021.
"We’re exceptionally fortunate to have private ownership, and the kind of commitment to a local news operation, a strong local news operation, because Las Vegas needs one."
- Glenn Cook, Executive Editor, Las Vegas Review-Journal who oversees a staff of 120 journalists and feels confident that the family ownership of the paper will continue despite the recent passing of Sheldon Adelson. - Wednesday, January 27, 2021.
"Our job is to make sure we have the plumbing in place to accommodate that economic diversification, when it comes."
- John Entsminger, General Manager, Southern Nevada Water Authority putting the water infrastructure in place for both the Apex Industrial Park and the future airport at Ivanpah. He says the pace for Ivanpah is at pre pandemic levels. - Tuesday, January 26, 2021.
"When you’re in the building you can consume a lot of information, which you won’t see this year."
- Hillary Schieve, Mayor of Reno on the fact that restrictions on the public and lobbyists allowed into the Legislative building will be severely restricted for the first months of this year’s session. - Friday, January 22, 2021.
"There are some very good people of both parties who continue to serve the public well, in Nevada, and I don’t think we shouldn’t lose sight of that"
- Former US Senator, Richard Bryan harkens back to the days of Republicans Bill Raggio and Cliff Young in Nevada and doesn’t want to tar all current Nevada Republicans with the insurrectionist brush. - Thursday, January 21, 2021.
"We definitely get overwhelmed, clearly, 7 to 10 days after any of those types of events.”"
- Mason Van Houweling, CEO, University Medical Center says that small family type gatherings around any of the holidays are the cause of these surges in coronavirus because so many people are asymptomatic and don’t realize they are bringing the virus to these gatherings. - Wednesday, January 20, 2021.
"You come back to the core principles of what this country is founded on and you keep moving through the process."
- Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson, District 27 talking about the takeaway her middle school children received about the incidents on January 6th. The fact the Congress reconvened that night to continue the roll call. - Tuesday, January 19, 2021.
"I don’t even know how to describe how mortified I was by that."
- John Oceguera, Former Speaker of the Nevada Assembly, Strategies 360 on the events of Jan 6, 2021. He went on to describe what he told new members of the Legislature in regard to the Legislative building. He said “You need to respect this building like it’s a church. Important things happen here, and we need to have that kind of decorum.” - Friday, January 15, 2021.
"And now in hindsight ... it was your rally, and they went to the Capitol after that and this happened, so, your words ... It is fair to say, 'You had a piece of this. I'm sorry, but you had a piece of this.' Now did he tell them to go up there and basically trash the building and result in the deaths of multiple people? Obviously not."
- Congressman Mark Amodei CD 2 with more comments on the events of Jan 6, 2021 - Thursday, January 14, 2021.
"When you look at everything through a political lens, of course. This is all on you. Well, guess what? He's got responsibility there."
- Congressman Mark Amodei CD 2 making the point that Donald Trump bears responsibility for what occurred in the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. - Wednesday, January 13, 2021.
"In the State of Nevada nothing is funded very well, honestly."
- Andrew Clinger, CFO, Nevada System of Higher Education says that once you’ve gone through the one shots in the state budget, all of those cuts are very painful. Mr. Clinger dealt with this during the budget crisis in 2007 - Tuesday, January 12, 2021.
"That we will see quicker action on a stimulus package that really does what it needs to do which is stabilize state and local governments."
- State Senator Julia Ratti District 13 (D) Sparks hopes have come true with Democrats taking over the US Senate. She feels that will help Nevadans to not lose critical services on a state and local level. - Friday, January 8, 2021.
