Deutsche Bank gaming analyst Bill Lerner made some solid points about the teacher union's gaming tax push on April 24 when he spoke to the North Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. Unfortunately, he undercut his presentation at the same time by also indiscriminately parroting bogus talking points beloved by Nevada's zealots for "broad-based" tax schemes.

Just noticed today that our April 10 commentary asserting the fundamental inadequacy of government regulation got some cogent and really high-caliber support later in the month from two senior Brookings Institution economists.

A report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal today reveals that Nevada is adding government employees at a slower rate than the rest of the country.

The Nevada Policy Research Institute this week cheered the news that Gov. Jim Gibbons signed an executive order calling for transparency in Nevada government.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal has an astute editorial out today on the whining over Gov. Gibbons' insistence that agencies trim their projected budgets in the face of lower-than-expected revenues.

The results of NPRI's statewide survey on Nevadans' attitudes on education, conducted along with the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, are in, and they paint a not-so-pretty picture for the state's education establishment.

Few, if any, states in the union are in as bad an economic funk as Michigan. In fact, it's commonly said that Michigan is currently experiencing a one-state recession. ...

Mike Huckabee's victory in the Iowa caucuses, and the growing possibility that he may capture the Republican nomination, have alarmed a lot of folks on the right for whom limited government and fiscal conservatism are priorities.