Steven Miller
Time to get real on career and technical education
More educational freedom in Nevada could yield moretechnically skilled young people and less school violence
One of the biggest issues set to come before the 2007 Nevada Legislature will be discrimination by the state education system against students who want to start work right after high school rather than college.
Street Smarts
Our congested roads reveal we need a more intelligent paradigm
Southern Nevada’s traffic congestion woes, says one of America’s pre-eminent transportation experts, stem from “poor policy choices and a failure to separate solutions that are effective from those that are not.”
It’s NOT about the children
The push for all-day preschool is not what it pretends to be
Let’s say this ad appeared in the jobs section of your local newspaper:
“Have 30-year record of pronounced failure in field. Wasted billions of Silver State taxpayers’ dollars, while stunting the development of hundreds of thousands of Nevada school kids. Now seeking expanded career opportunities targeting your community’s four- and five-year-olds. Please reply to the address below….”
When minimizing wages is union policy
Culinary co-parent UNITE has 50-year history of working to lower benefits
It sounds far-fetched: Union bosses working to push wages below the legal minimum? But that is what’s allowed by Subsection B of the unions’ proposed minimum wage constitutional amendment that will be on your November ballot.
Helping the Poor — or helping The Mob?
Paragraph in ‘minimum wage’ scheme would increase Nevada corruption
Even most union households disapprove of unions, a Harris poll found last year.It’s long been known that most working adults rate unions negatively. That figure’s now at 69 percent, according to this August 2005 survey.
Nevada’s hidden accountability wars
Disdain for parents’ goals for their kids is built into the public education establishment. But most politicians never get it.
Senator Bill Raggio had his doubts. Minutes of the 2005 Legislature’s hearings make that clear.
But Gov. Kenny Guinn was eager to try something “new” with Nevada’s huge number of at-risk public schools, and he’d announced the idea in his State of the State message.
Frequently Asked Questions (and Hysterical Allegations) Regarding TASC
In principle, the idea behind the Tax and Spending Control amendment currently proposed for the Nevada Constitution is a good one.
Blatherskite
The higher-taxes crowd is misrepresenting America’s founders
The Silver State nowadays is hearing a lot of what America’s founding generation called bletherskate.
Though dictionaries today spell it blatherskite, the meaning remains the same as in the late 18th century: nonsense.
Cringing as a strategy
Timid defenders of Nevada business need a new game plan
The Las Vegas Chamber says it is opposing TASC because the proposed constitutional amendment “does nothing” about financial liabilities the state has under its Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) and Public Employee Benefit Program (PEBP).
This is a peculiarly flaccid argument.
LVCVA: The Larcenous Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority
The Las Vegas Convention Center is an artifact of Mob-era predation and should be sold to the highest bidder
Around 1955, in the still-early days of the Mob in Vegas, the guys running the joints realized that business could be a lot better. What was needed was some way to get more visitors to Southern Nevada.
