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"It’s heart wrenching to look at the numbers we’re facing."
- Assemblywoman Jill Tolles (R), District 25 coming off an IFC meeting where the cuts to education are 265 million dollars in fiscal year 2020 alone. - Thursday, June 18, 2020.
"The public employees really have to take a hard hit this time."
- Liz McMenamin, VP, Government Affairs, Retail Association of Nevada says the taxpaying public can’t carry the current cost of public employees without them taking the cuts the Governor has asked for, with the unemployment rate where it is, in Nevada. - Wednesday, June 17, 2020.
"Sales are gonna increase and I’m going to hire."
- Randi Thompson, Nevada State Director, National Federation of Independent Business quoting a recent survey and quote from the Small Business Index from May 2020. - Tuesday, June 16, 2020.
"I would say Ross is the favorite there."
- John Oceguera, Former Speaker of the Nevada Assembly, Strategies 360 referring to the race for Clark County Commission. Ross Miller, in a heavily Democratic district will be up against Las Vegas City Councilman Stavros Anthony in the general election. Anthony has a lot of campaign money in the bank. - Friday, June 12, 2020.
"(Vote by mail) Provides no partisan advantage"
- Mark Riffenburg, Nv State Director, NextGen America says despite President Trumps concerns, that from the voting totals so far, in Nevada, it belies that belief. - Thursday, June 11, 2020.
"We were trying to work with the Governors team to try find a solution to that."
- State Senator James Settlemeyer, District 17 says that the Governor says that you can have 400 people in the Wal Martin Douglas County, unlimited people at a protest or riot but you can’t have more than 50 people at a church or at the Republican state convention when they have booked 5 convention rooms to not exceed the mandated limits. The reason being the convention goers are connected. - Wednesday, June 10, 2020.
"Many of us have discovered it works quite well.”"
- Josh Hicks, Partner, McDonald Carano says that despite doubts about things like video conferencing that it, like telemedicine, and other technologies that have been forced upon society, due to coronavirus, are working better than expected. He also sees the need to expand broadband, especially in rural areas. - Tuesday, June 9, 2020.
"It’s going to create a very unstable situation going forward."
- Curtis Debord, CEO, U.S. Ordinance discussing the cratering of the oil market and the fact that a lot of the former employees of these oil companies won’t be coming back to work. This will likely cause havoc in major oil producer countries from Russia to Columbia, Venezuela and beyond as they rely on the oil revenues to fund their governments. - Friday, June 5, 2020.
"Max Pawn has evolved into a high-end luxury store. One of the highest end luxury stores in the country."
- Michael Mack, Owner, World Famous Max Pawn says that they have what looks like a designer store rather than an old-fashioned pawn shop. They sell all kinds of designer label watches, handbags and other high-end goods, now that traditional items like TV’s have become so inexpensive. - Thursday, June 4, 2020.
"Just like we have electricity in homes, we need to have internet access in homes."
- Jhone Ebert, Superintendent of Public Instruction, NV Dept of Education discussing the new normal of distance learning and one of the challenges that needs to be addressed, especially in rural areas. Another challenge will be social distancing in classrooms and on school buses, in already overcrowded conditions. - Wednesday, June 3, 2020.
"Landlords and renters have been communicating very well over this period."
- Susy Vasquez, Exec Dir for the Nv State Apartment Association says that renters have either been paying on time or making payment arrangements, with their landlords. - Tuesday, June 2, 2020.
"Landlords and renters have been communicating very well over this period."
- Susy Vasquez, Exec Dir for the Nv State Apartment Association says that renters have either been paying on time or making payment arrangements, with their landlords. - Tuesday, June 2, 2020.
"Overall, there’s sufficient resources for 26 years."
- Bernard Rowe, President, Ioneer USA Corp says that the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium/Boron mine (Esmerelda County) will begin commercial production within 3 years and with additional finds could become a multi-generational mine. - Friday, May 29, 2020.
"Covid never started for the Silver State."
- Rory McShane, CEO, McShane LLC says the Governor crippled the Silver States economy as though we had an infection rate of New York City. McShane says looking at the infection rates and hospital bed usage, in Nevada, obviously we did not. - Thursday, May 28, 2020.
"The building plans are in for the first big spec building and it sounds very interesting."
- Lowell Patton, President, Fernley Chamber reporting on the latest development on one of the two major industrial parks being developed in the Fernley area. Combined these two parks would have more developable land than the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center. - Wednesday, May 27, 2020.
"(potentially) We’re probably looking in July, for the first special session."
- John Sande IV, Principal, Argentum Partners says there is a lot information that needs to be sifted through before the Governor and Legislators are ready for a special session. It appears to be a question of when, not if. - Tuesday, May 26, 2020.
