>> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. host sam shad a no holds barred political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> back on "nevada newsmakers," we are pleased to welcome for the first time to the program, john scire, adjunct faculty political science at unr. job wrong. >> thank you very much. program, sir. one thing senator reid was pleased about there was no monnethere for yucca mountain. at this point in time, do we presume that as repository for nuclear waste that yucca mountain is truly dead? there may be other uses down the road, but reality this is dead. >> the reality is it is on hold, not dead. and what i've advocated for year, it not be used for storage until waste is reprocessed. if you reprocess nuclear waste, you reduce volume of storage down to about 5% of the total. the nuclear waste because it is 104 sites around the country, target for terrorists. >> what way would they be able to use this for terrorism? >> you got above ground storag

pro group management, and the >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moving america forward. this is "nevada newsmakers," with host sam shad, a no holds barred political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> and back on "nevada newsmakers," we kickoff the year in a very good way with lance gilman, partner broker with the tahoe reno industrial center, one of our proud sponsors, pleasure to have you back on the program, sir. >> thank you so much for this opportunity at the first of the year, the first monday, right, let's kick it off. i've 4 too much rest and i have a lot to share. >> i hope so. 2015 was an amazing year. >> yes, sir. >> with tesla, switch, you know, are you anticipating as big, if not bigger year coming up for 2016? >> actually, i am. subject to several issues that we're going to have to address, south meadows double diamond ranch, a large transaction in our market in those times was 50 acres. you rarely saw 100-acre transaction. if you take a look now, we're talking with folks lik

." >> "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you in part by the tahoe reno industrial center, retail association >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. this is "nevada newsmakers" with host sam shad, a no holds barred political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> and back on "nevada newsmakers," we are pleased to welcome back to the program the chairman of the board of regents, rick trachok, pleasure >> pleasure to be here. >> we were chatting on the break before we got started, i thought i would bring it up right away and deal with it. the headline in the las vegas review journal a month or so ago, they said northern regents shouldn't reject land for unlv stadium deal and i was trying to figure out who in northern nevada will be trying to stop a stadium deal that unlv wants, makes sense? >> well, the short answer is no one. the vote took place on our board meeting on friday, i think, december 3 or 4. there are two issues when we talk about the land acquisition. one is there's 42 acres, almost conto my knowledgeuous to the unlv campus, which

." >> "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you in part by the tahoe reno industrial center, >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. this is "nevada newsmakers," a with host sam shad, a no holds barred mrit car forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> back on "nevada newsmakers," we're pleased to welcome back ray bacon, executive director of association. pleasure to have you back on the program, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> last time you were on the program a couple weeks ago, talking about a new project that will be larger in size than switch and tesla combined, that would be 4000-plus acres. >> uh-huh. >> any thought on who that might be? >> 14 rumors floating around on things like that, two or three related to the auto sector. really have no idea on things like that, but when you're talking large-scale employment, the large single facility-type operations that are doing anything have a tendency to be in one of two areas at this stage of the game. they're either aircraft or auto motive. >> what are the issues we've had attracting those bus

pro group management and the >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. this is "nevada newsmakers" with political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> back on "nevada newsmakers," we're delighted to welcome back jill derby, she's former democratic state party chair and also a cultural anthropologist, we have lots to talk about. the first thing i want to talk about, your thoughts on what is driving the donald trump and the bernie sanders campaigns? >> i think there is this fear out there, this unease, that stems i think partly from the rhetoric that's been out there about how the country is a mess, but the reality that wages haven't risen, so in spite of the fact obama said it right, we have the strongest economy anywhere, but the truth is for so many people, they're stuck in the middle class and losing ground, because wages have been stagnate, a third of our people in the workforce now are part timers, freelancers, the old job and count on retirement benefits and count on re

retail ass >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. host sam shad, a no holds barred political forum. from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> back on "nevada newsmakers," we are always pleased to welcome back to the program marsha berkbigler, she is on the washoe county commission, pleasure to have you back on the program. >> thank you. >> interesting story about a week or so ago, of all places gulack, the volunteer fire department all resigned, including the chief. >> uh-huh. >> this is a tradition across nevada, of volunteer fire departments, what is going on? it appears they are not the only area having problems. >> no, it is not. several volunteer departments are not happy with the plan that we've put in place and largely that is because we are required by federal law to make sure that everybody is trained in a certain manner and that meet a certain physical requirement. and frankly, that's not been the they have not met the requirements and that is okay in some res

." >> "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you in part by the tahoe reno industrial center, retail association >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. this is "nevada newsmakers" with host sam shad, a no holds barred political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" sam shad. >> back on "nevada newsmakers," we're pleased to welcome back to the program after an absence, former state senator maurice washington, now candidate for washoe county commissioner. welcome. >> thanks, sam, good to be here. >> so you're back. >> i'm back. >> running. >> what were you thinking? why are you running, let me put it that way? >> actually i'm looking forward to the opportunity between the local governments, reno, sparks and washoe county. it's a great opportunity for us with the likes of tesla and switch and things are going to happen in our county and our community to push forward and not only maintain our current lifestyle, but to provide for the growth that is going to take place and good jobs and of course the economy still the number one issue, so we want to make sure we can address that and provide m

pro group management and the >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. this is "nevada newsmakers" with host sam shad, a no holds barred political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> back on "nevada newsmakers," we are pleased to welcome amy tarkanian and erline forsyth, both former nevada republican state chairwomen and both supporting carly fiorina. pleasure to have you all on the program. >> thank you for having us. >> i want to start with amy, you and i had lots of conversations off the air, as well as on the air, about all the republican candidates and what was it that finally brought you to carly fiorina? what was the number one thing? >> interesting that you ask that because you're right, we did have an opportunity to meet with she was somebody who struck me as somebody who is confident, very upbeat, knows exactly where she wants to take this country, she has detailed plans, she's very strong, she has had many ups and downs. she's overcome many obstacles, she's a mom

nevada newsmakers" brought to you in part by the tahoe reno pro group m nevada. >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. >> this is "nevada newsmakers" with host sam shad a no holds-barred political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" sam shad. >> and back on "nevada newsmakers," we have a great guest as always, sean whaley is here, political reporter for the las vegas review journal. you were one of the people when the whole ownership change came up with the paper that really, along with others of the paper, who i admire greatly, put your neck on the line in terms of telling the story and trying to get the word out about who actually owned the paper. have things calmed down now that glenn cook has been appointed the interim editor? >> they have calmed down quite a bit sam and i'm happy to say that, because when i sort of teed off on twitter about the ownership issue, we didn't know who the owner was, and that was my big concern. that has since obviously been cleared up, thanks in large part to the reporting of staff at the newspaper. disclosing that sheldon adelson became own

the whole show on all new "nevada newsmakers." >> "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you in part by the tahoe reno industrial center, retail >> closed captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. this is "nevada newsmakers" with host sam shad, a no holds barred political forum. from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> back on "nevada newsmakers," program the governor of great state of ohio, john kasich, running for president of the united states. he served 18 years on the house armed services committee, six years as chair of the house budget committee. you know how the system works, to say the least. >> yeah, i did a lot of things when i was there. when i started as member of the minority as a republican, i never considered myself to be in the minority. i considered myself in the majority. i found hammers and screwdrivers that cost tens of thousands of dollars and led a big effort at procurement reform and learned how washington works, how special interests were trying to stop me from changing the law. but that was interesting and being on the defense with the greatest minds in the world was really exciting and

brought to you by reno >> closed-caption of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association. trucking moves america forward. >> this is "nevada newsmakers" with host sam, a political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam. >> and back on "nevada newsmakers" please welcome for the first time to the program the executive director of the northern nevada international center which is affiliated with unr and also funded by the u.s. department of state. let's start by by explaining exactly what it is the international center does . >> so we host visited delegations that are invited by our government to come to the united states and learn who we are as americans. there's a lot of stereotypes people have, they often equate who we are with our foreign policy and that is often not liked around the world. so what we try to do is connect with people on a professional and personal level so that they can dialogue and get to know each other. and that means much them knowing us but us as americans getting to know people from other countries . >> okay. so

." >> announcer: closed-captioning of "nevada newsmakers" is brought to you by the nevada trucking association. this is "nevada newsmakers." with host sam shad. a no holds barred political forum. now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters here is sam shad. >> and back on "nevada newsmakers" we're delighted to welcome to the program for the first time the brand new political reporter seth richardson. nice to have you on the program sir. >> thanks for having me. >> we were saying before we went on air that you came from illinois. and you covered president obama from the beginning of his career -- >> i did not cover president obama. >> i take that back. that you covered -- >> i did have the pleasure meeting him as a state senator, u.s. senator. and as a president. now i did cover him as president when i was in dc for a little while. but kind of got to see his story unfold from the beginning all the way up until now. >> and what are the differences if any, in barack obama since day one. >> he's always had that ability to rally people. it's kind of been ongoing. would say as well and y