Transparency
Waste, hidden spending and records destruction
Lots of taxpayer money is being spent but not reported.
Further open records requests and audits have revealed that some local governments destroy their intergovernmental lobbying records so quickly that no public account remains to reveal exactly how taxpayer dollars are spent each year.
Overspending on Outsourcing
The costs pile up as taxpayers remain in the dark.
Many people think of outsourcing as a way to save on expenses by having help from outside firms that can do specialized jobs for less. When it comes to government in Nevada, however, outsourcing too often appears a way for the politically connected to pull in taxpayer dollars.
Nevada's hidden spending
Transparency should be a higher priority in the Silver State.
Subpar accounting practices in Nevada government make it difficult for taxpayers to learn how hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are spent.
Governments lobbying governments
Millions of taxpayer dollars go undocumented.
State and local governments in Nevada spend millions each year lobbying other levels of the government, and taxpayers get little if anything in return.
Getting Plucked in Nevada
How Government Covertly Increases Your Tax Burden
You'd never know it from the incessant calls for new taxes on Nevadans, but Silver State residents already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.
Coming out of the dark
Government transparency would add credibility to both sides of the budget battle.
There's nothing particularly new, or even all that interesting, about the kafuffle taking place over Nevada's public K-12 education budget.
Follow the labor money
Financial transparency is needed on the public labor front.
Attention public-employee union members … Ever wondered what your union officials spend your dues on? Odds are you probably have, and you still don’t know. But wouldn’t you like to?
The great public authority swindle: Part II
Why governance in Southern Nevada is so oddly opaque.
This is the second of a two-part series examining the undemocratic, corruptive and profligate nature of public authorities, in Nevada and around the nation.
It was set up in the 1950s, when the Mob controlled Vegas
The great public authority swindle: Part I
Politicians learned early on how to bypass the voters.
This is the first of a two-part series examining the undemocratic, corruptive and profligate nature of public authorities, in Nevada and around the nation.
A mid all the allegations that surround the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority year in and year out, the issue of the LVCVA’s unique legal structure always seems to escape attention.
A little sunshine for Nevada?
Web-based transparency in government is coming to the states.
Despite all the talk about America’s current red-blue polarization, a new consensus between populist left and populist right on the Internet is already starting to transform the country.
