Steven Miller
A response to Assessor Schofield
The facts are clear: He and other assessors are violating the Nevada Constitution
The facts show that Nevada's auditors are violating the state Constitution.
Uh-oh — the public is starting to understand
Nevada tax officials, call your defense attorneys
Nevada's property tax officials haven't been following state law or the state constitution and property owners have been paying for it.
Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part III
State child-care regulators follow views of well-meaning zealots, not parents
The final piece in a series that shows how Nevada's child-care regulators are following well-meaning zealots, not parents.
Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part II
State bureaucrats persist despite widespread skepticism
Despite widespread skepticism, state bureaucrats persist in trying to over-regulate child care.
Coming soon: A more transparent Nevada
Details on government contracts to be made public
Nevadans will soon know a good deal more about how their government spends taxpayer dollars.
Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part I
Bureaucrats still think government force can produce Utopia
State regulators are trying to price low-income parents out of the child-care market.
Axing the public’s lawyer
Assembly Speaker behind freeze on child welfare dollars
Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley worked energetically in both the 2007 and 2009 Legislatures to kill the ability of the Clark County District Attorney to represent the public interest when children are being abused, a review of legislative minutes reveals.
Larceny by any other name
The so-called ‘progressive’ agenda: Theft
Google the word larceny on the Web, and there, within the many definitions that come up, you'll find the sad intellectual plight of modern America. Multiple sources define the word as "any wrongful taking of property." Others define it as "any unlawful taking of property." Note the distinction: between wrongful and unlawful. While some people believe that taking others' property is simply wrong, others believe it's OK if some government law permits it.
Are you invisible?
Who are state lawmakers really working for?
Historically, they were called "public servants." In Nevada nowadays, however, government employees increasingly are the public's masters. The servant? Increasingly, it's you. Consider the state Assembly. Of the 28 Democrats making up the two-thirds majority that controls the Nevada Legislature's lower chamber, 20 are current or retired government employees — or make their living from tax dollars the government allocates to their non-profit corporations. That's over 70 percent.
