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Commentaries
The perks of public service
They all add up to a very high cost to taxpayers.
While public employees deserve a quality compensation package, many of them receive excessive pay and perks at taxpayer expense.
Read moreSpend, spend again
Our current approach on education ensures we won’t succeed.
The education establishment consistently bemoans Nevada's lower-than-average per-pupil spending on education. Implicit in their constant return to this statistic is a misguided belief that spending more money on education naturally leads to better education results.
Trademarks and low marks
Is Policy Governance® a road to nowhere?
Almost a decade after the Clark County School District adopted Policy Governance®, the natural question is: Has it moved the district along the road to higher achievement?
When compassion goes bad
Problems with the ADA abound.
The Americans with Disabilities Act is just another government encroachment on property rights that makes us all worse off – including the disabled.
Overspending on Outsourcing
The costs pile up as taxpayers remain in the dark.
Many people think of outsourcing as a way to save on expenses by having help from outside firms that can do specialized jobs for less. When it comes to government in Nevada, however, outsourcing too often appears a way for the politically connected to pull in taxpayer dollars.
In the red ... from going green
Environmental extremism threatens Nevada's economic health.
Federal laws prohibiting the drilling for fossil fuels punish no state in the union more than Nevada. Not that there is any oil or gas to drill for in the Silver State. It's just that nobody is walking or riding his bike into Las Vegas or Reno to tempt Lady Luck.
Nevada's hidden spending
Transparency should be a higher priority in the Silver State.
Subpar accounting practices in Nevada government make it difficult for taxpayers to learn how hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are spent.
Minimum wage and unemployment
An increase in the former causes an increase in the latter.
As Nevada's unemployment rate goes up, one wonders if the voters who said "yes" to a higher minimum wage in the November 2006 election are having second thoughts.
New approach needed on public pensions
Do Nevada's political leaders have the courage to act?
To reform NVPERS, our politicians would have to look beyond their next elections and selflessly put the greater good above their own retirement planning.
Governments lobbying governments
Millions of taxpayer dollars go undocumented.
State and local governments in Nevada spend millions each year lobbying other levels of the government, and taxpayers get little if anything in return.
