Steven Miller
The Rule of (No) Law
When Nevada’s Supreme Court voted to nullify the state constitution’s two-thirds rule on tax-increases this July, it wasn’t the first time the justices had brazenly flouted the state’s most fundamental law.
More Supreme Court Howlers
On July 10, 2003, before the eyes of history and a suddenly attentive Nevada public, the state Supreme Court stepped into the spotlight, filled with confidence.
The Sign on the Senate Doors
One of the most interesting news reports that never made it out of the 2003 Legislative sessions would have been the story of the sign that several state senators posted on their office doors.
The Gathering Storm
In California last week Assembly Democrats got caught calculating how they could profit politically by drawing out the Golden State’s budget crisis.
The People Be Damned
Judges like to posture as wise and fair authority figures. But the reality is that any judge is an amalgam of two of the most-often-despised occupational types of American life: the lawyer and the politician.
The Presumed Serfdom of Taxpayers
Nevada's political class is making some peculiar assumptions
One of the odd things about this year’s debates over Nevada’s state budget has been the peculiar assumption lurking behind almost every official presentation.
Cloud Cuckoo Land
In Aristophanes’ ancient comedy The Birds, our feathered friends—fed up with both mankind and the gods—establish a city in the clouds.
The Big Sleep
Republican state legislators are being accused of a blasphemous absence of reverence for the Transcendent Divinity of Nevada’s public-school apparatus.
Whom Do We Eat First?
We call people elected to the Nevada Legislature our “representatives,” but of course they are not.
The Predators Bawl
Every other day powerful Nevada politicians ostentatiously holler, through the press, that they’re against taxing “the little guy.”
