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Solutions 2013
A Sourcebook for Nevada Policymakers
Solutions 2013 covers 39 subject areas and is a comprehensive sourcebook for lawmakers, candidates and citizens who are interested in policy solutions. As the name implies, these are the solutions for the issues facing Nevadans — from taxes to education, from energy to labor, from economic development to higher education, and many more.
Governments paying union employees millions a year to perform union work
Clark County taxpayers pick up tab for tens of thousands of hours of paid union-leave time
Tens of thousands of hours of paid union-leave time is being picked up by Clark County taxpayers.
Hiding behind opaque numbers
Nevada PERS accounting practices are concealing taxpayers’ real liabilities
Nevada PERS accounting practices are concealing taxpayers' real liabilities in the public pension system.
Union power, organizers ‘behind’ Occupy Las Vegas
Big labor steering protestors away from disrupting Democratic events, planning to ‘shut down the Strip’
Big labor is steering protestors away from disrupting Democratic events and is planning to ‘shut down the Strip.’
Records reveal 90 percent of North Las Vegas firefighters live outside city
Non-resident firefighters, police funded political war against cost-conscious Democrat
NLV police and firefighter unions, filled with non-residents, funded political war against cost-conscious Democrat.
Hidden Obamacare provision routed money to insider unions, governments, businesses
House committee questions ‘wholesale waste’ of tax money
A House committee is questioning the 'wholesale waste' of tax dollars.
Unions prevail, while most Nevadans struggle
Prevailing wage laws cost taxpayers billions
Nevada's prevailing wage law is costing taxpayers billions.
Smoke and mirrors: Part I
New PERS report is disingenuous
A new study released by PERS administrators is intended to provide political cover for the failing defined-benefits system.
Bound and gagged
Union negotiations marked by compulsion, secrecy and predation
Union negotiations are marked by compulsion, secrecy and predation.
Working against workers
Misguided policies are driving up unemployment in Nevada
Nevada's misguided policies are driving up the unemployment rate.
