Steven Miller
NPRI's look at the LVCVA
Some important questions remain unanswered.
In late 2007, as the Nevada Policy Research Institute was gearing up a broad transparency-in-government initiative, the opportunity arose for NPRI and other state-based think tanks to obtain national funding to pursue state and local investigative reporting projects.
The Bubble Factory
Nevada faces a head-wind of bad monetary policy from Washington, D.C.
There's a simple reason why banks have been so reluctant to loan to other banks. More than anyone, bankers know what banks do. Fractional-reserve banking, after all, is the business of legally lending out money one doesn't have, hoping all the while that large numbers of your depositors never all show up at the same time, demanding their money.
NSEA sticks it to Culinary
Room tax hike sought by the teacher union would kill Culinary union jobs
It's been clear for a long time that little love is lost between the state teacher union and Southern Nevada's Culinary local. The hostility spilled into public view earlier this year during the state's bitter presidential preference caucus. While Culinary backed Barack Obama, the Nevada State Education Association teacher union backed Hillary Clinton, even going to court in an attempt to block Culinary members from voting at sites set up on the Las Vegas Strip.
The code language is flying again
Nevada's tax-hikers have you in their cross-hairs
Former governor Kenny Guinn – he of the record near-billion tax increase – is beating the drum again for "long-term" state planning. Just what does that really mean? Let's time-travel back to 1998, during Guinn's initial run for governor, when "long-term planning" was one of his frequent talking points.
The Nevada Piglet Book 2008
Open-records requests made of state agencies and local governments around Nevada reveal that wasteful government spending is rampant throughout the Silver State.
Public higher education in Nevada needs a basic re-thinking
Business model is ‘busted'
No doubt it's impolitic to say so, but the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) is a lumbering, brain-dead white elephant. Furthermore, it ought to be put out of its misery – and quickly.
Spend more and get less
Nevada’s higher-ed approach fundamentally wrong-headed
For over four years now, Nevada System of Higher Education Chancellor Jim Rogers has been bullying, sweet-talking, threatening, celebrating, decrying, politicking, quitting, un-quitting, donating his money, un-donating his money, and, even by his own account, being regularly unreasonable – all in the service of turning Nevada's taxpayer-supported universities and colleges into research and education wonders that will spark massive economic growth in the state for decades to come.
The century-old scheme to disempower parents
Modern school boards were designed by elitists to be impervious to change.
Why is public K-12 education in the Silver State so resistant to genuine reform? It was designed to be that way.
Out with the old
Resistance to term limits only proves we need them.
The chicanery of Nevada's power mongers around the topic of term limits reminds us why we need those term limits in the first place.
'Baseless charges'
Public school finance in Nevada needs a serious overhaul.
An inspection of school finance around the nation reveals that virtually all the arguments commonly used by unions and districts for ever-higher spending levels are baseless – literally.
