Steven Miller
Dead and Not Knowing It, Part 1
Nevada's tax-financed universities are based on a paradigm that no longer represents reality.
Nevada’s higher ed system is already dead. True, it still moves, makes noises and feeds industriously on taxpayers, but the fact is, its core paradigm—as understood since the system’s 19th Century founding—is as defunct as Monty Python’s parrot.
On Ratchets
Taxeaters love to rant about the TABOR "ratchet". But they've got a much more insidious one of their own.
In Colorado the majority leader of the state senate is going around trying to gin up hostility against that state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) with a spiel about what he calls “Nurse Ratchett.”
Why Nevada Public Education Is Not About to Improve
Legislative initiatives don’t deal with the real issues
Here in Nevada the political class endlessly professes its dedication to getting our public schools out of their seemingly interminable rut.
In Thrall to Dewey’s Ghost
By its very nature, Progressivism does not prize, and therefore cannot prioritize, actual learning.
The basic problem with Nevada's colleges of education is that their core teacher-training agenda is—speaking candidly—essentially bogus.
Squid
Like cuttlefish and octopi, educationists have evolved their own set of reflexes to confuse and mislead
Education historian Diane Ravitch and others often point out the long-running disagreement over the goals of education that exists between parents and those who’ve taken control of the U.S. public education establishment.
The Confession
Nevada’s Assembly Majority is telling us more than it realizes
Say what you will about the federal No Child Left Behind program. In one area, at least, it is producing clear-cut progress.
The Incumbency Problem
The systemic problem that Nevada taxpayers face is political
We already have term limits,” goes the refrain. “They’re called elections.”
Get ready to hear that particular bit of sloganeering for years to come. The term-limits approved by Nevada voters in 1994 and 1996 are every day getting closer to kicking in. And in other states when that deadline approached, incumbents and supporting special interests launched frantic efforts to get voters to change their minds.
High Anxiety
AJR 7 signals fear in Nevada’s political establishment
As Nevada’s long-delayed term limits finally heave into view, the anxiety in the state’s ruling political class is evident.
Bow down before your masters
Nevada's government employees don't like your First Amendment rights
For decades Nevada’s state and local government employees have used their political power to gain legal and economic privileges over ordinary taxpayers.
Growth Task Force Follies
The Clark County Community Growth Task Force has completed its work, producing a hefty 190-page report. Affordable housing is listed as Clark County’s number one priority.
