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"I’m pragmatic. I’m looking at the reality of the situation. Even if Republicans were to take control of the Senate through this cycle and you controlled both houses, by the time it would get to the White House, he’d veto it.
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- US Senator Dean Heller admitting that repeal of Obamacare is no longer possible and that he intends to work on making, in his words, a bad law better.
- Wednesday, January 22, 2014.
"Other than taxes, he could be a Democrat.
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- State Senator “Tick” Segerblom (D) who has decided not to challenge Brian Sandoval in the Governor’s race. The Senator feels the Governor has done some good things like signing the medical marijuana bill and the bill that allows undocumented aliens the ability to get drivers licenses but he wants the Governor to realize that the state needs more revenue to move forward. - Tuesday, January 21, 2014.
"40% or so, of the businesses in Egypt, are owned by the military.
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- Jill Derby, Cultural Anthropologist, who feels that the military running the country will bring a certain level of stability to Egypt. The military in Egypt is involved in a lot more of the fabric of the country that the military in the US.
- Monday, January 20, 2014.
"Some of these people will literally sit on the casino floor for 24 hours.
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- Sean Cary reporting from Macau says that there is no comparison to the casino experience in Macau to that on the Las Vegas Strip. The focus is on gambling. There is very little drinking of alcohol on the casino floor. They (mainland Chinese) drink water or tea. - Thursday, January 16, 2014.
"You know what I’m going to do Sam. I’m going to encourage him to come on your show.
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- Greg Ferraro, The Ferraro Group, discussing Governor Sandoval’s lack of appearances before newspaper editorial boards and political interview shows despite having plenty of good things to talk about.
- Wednesday, January 15, 2014.
"This is maybe not even a once in decade opportunity, it’s probably once every 25 years where a state has an opportunity to be at the cutting edge of really a new, and what promises to be, a pretty large industry.
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- Steve Hill, Governor’s Office of Economic Development, talking about Nevada being chosen as one of 6 sites, by the FAA, for Drone testing.
- Tuesday, January 14, 2014.
"You have to have a job. You have to have a reasonable credit rating and you have to have a down payment and that’s what we are seeing.
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- Perry DiLoreto, CEO DiLoreto Homes, who says that banks are loaning money to homebuyers on a much more normal basis. He said that on one of his projects, 25% were cash buyers.
- Monday, January 13, 2014.
"There are three things the FAA is concerned about. And I will list them in order. Safety Safety and Safety.
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- Manos Maragakis, Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Nevada discussing the new drone testing program that Nevada has qualified for. He says that Nevada will help develop regulations, standards, policy procedures and training requirements for the program. - Thursday, January 9, 2014.
"We have an age discrimination element that no one has really discussed publically in this situation.
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- TMCC Professor of Political Science Fred Lokken talking about the fact that a vast majority of those currently on unemployment are in their 50’s or above.
- Wednesday, January 8, 2014.
"I like to think about where we are in the unmanned systems world as about where we were a hundred years or so ago in manned aviation and we’re just now trying to figure out all these different applications."
- (Rtd)Captain David “Roy” Rogers, President DRR Strategies LLC, who says some of the applications for Drones include agriculture, cropping patterns, pesticide application, law enforcement, wildlife management, wildfire monitoring and mitigation, security applications for the oil and gas industry for their pipelines and infrastructure, real estate planning, and the list goes on. - Tuesday, January 7, 2014.
"There could be a lot of impacts on the doctor/patient relationship as it exists today.
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- Stacy Woodbury, Executive Director of the Nevada State Medical Association, who says that due to Obamacare some insurance plans limit the number of doctors groups available to the insured. - Monday, January 6, 2014.
"The challenge we have with the city (Reno) is that our expenses are increasing faster than our revenues because of our labor contracts.
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- Reno City Councilman Dwight Dortch, potentially running for Mayor, on the ongoing fiscal problems for the city despite increasing sales tax and property tax revenues.
- Thursday, January 2, 2014.
"The voters are going to see this on the ballot in November. It’s going to be up to the voters to decide whether they want to see this tax by initiative take place.
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- State Senator Debbie Smith not answering the question of whether the State Democratic Party will support the Teachers Union Margins Tax Initiative.
- Tuesday, December 31, 2013.
"I would say 90% of the time (it’s how) we are getting information.
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- Melissa Carlson, Anchor News 4 Forum, talking about how ten years ago the media would get tips by phone calls. Now the majority of tips are from Twitter and Facebook.
- Monday, December 30, 2013.
"The Federal Judges are guessing at what the Nevada Supreme Court is going to say and that’s going to take years for them to get to that point.
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- Attorney Geoffrey Giles discussing HOA’s foreclosing on homeowners who might be behind on their monthly dues, and then selling off the homes for $5,000 or $10,000 and then going to the District courts to get them to declare the 1st mortgage unenforceable. A couple of Federal Judges in Las Vegas have said that’s right. Others in Northern Nevada have said no. - Thursday, December 19, 2013.
"The need was not, in the end, the question. It was just a matter of who was willing to take responsibility for fixing that need.
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- Jill Tolles, Say Yes for Kids, looking at the trials and tribulations of the Washoe County Commission as they looked at AB 46, that was passed onto them by the Legislature, to supply funding to the Washoe County School District. - Wednesday, December 18, 2013.
