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"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.
"We believe that Southwest Gas is still part of the solution."
- Scott Leedom, Director of Public Affairs, Southwest Gas commenting on the Nevada Climate Blueprint that removes natural gas from the clean energy mix in the future. Southwest Gas currently has 750,000 natural gas customers in the state. - Thursday, January 7, 2021.
"The tidal wave of immigration from California is on."
- Par Tolles, Tolles Development Company, reports that last year there were 770 homes available in December, in Washoe County. There are currently only 270 homes available. And this is just the beginning of the wave. - Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
"Every state will benefit if the Democrats hold the Senate."
- Randi Thompson, Nevada State Director, National Federation of Independent Business says that Majority Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi have promised the states big bailouts due to this US Senate victory, including Nevada. - Tuesday, January 5, 2021.
"The more bucks you’ve got in the bank, there’s some kind of unspoken clout that you have there."
- Kyle Roerink, Executive Director, Great Basin Water Network reflecting on the never-ending fundraising by both parties, even on election day. - Friday, January 1, 2021.
