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'Baseless charges'

Public school finance in Nevada needs a serious overhaul.

Steven Miller


An inspection of school finance around the nation reveals that virtually all the arguments commonly used by unions and districts for ever-higher spending levels are baseless – literally.

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The solutions Nevada needs are right next door

Educational choice brings many benefits in its wake.

Matthew Ladner


A comparison between Nevada and neighboring Arizona reveals the solutions the Silver State needs to meet its most pressing challenges in education.

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Was that really so hard?

Government proves it can cut spending.

Andy Matthews


Faced with a large and growing revenue shortfall, Gov. Jim Gibbons has worked successfully with state legislators to do the sensible thing and scale back the size of the state budget. Still, while the media are likely to chronicle this saga primarily as a triumph of bipartisan cooperation, the real moral of this story likely will be missed.

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Something for nothing – courtesy of the Federal Reserve

Nevada's been betting on the come.

Doug French


Las Vegas is a city built on the dream of getting something for nothing. But not only the tourists seek Lady Luck.

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Hammered by government's 'help'

The Federal Reserve and federal land agencies combine to bring needless suffering.

Doug French


The combination of buyer stupidity, population growth and loose lending certainly contributes to housing market volatility, but government planning deserves some of the blame as well.

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Watching the watchers

Government ‘regulation' is no magic bullet.

Steven Miller


Ever notice how, whenever Nevada government lays yet another egg, the "solution" that politicians and bureaucrats prescribe always turns out to be yet more government?

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An alternate reality

Nevadans need to know the truth about their taxes.

Andy Matthews


It has become increasingly clear that in the minds of those who make up Nevada's ever-expanding governing class, citizens exist first and foremost to feed the machinery of the state – thus allowing it to further grow in power and influence over us all.

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Inheriting a mess

Inaction on the death tax is bad news for family businesses.

Dick Patten


The Senate's most recent action on the death tax took place in the Finance Committee earlier this month, in a hearing to consider "Alternatives to the Current Federal Estate Tax System." The hearing may as well have been titled "Redistribution by Another Name."

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On the road to health-care Hell

Blame government, not free markets, for the mess.

Steven Miller


That American health care's problems are systemic is an argument we often hear from advocates of socialized medicine. But the rarely admitted reality is that we already have socialized medicine. And it is that system that is increasingly devolving into – and subjecting us to – bureaucratically indifferent, incompetent and callous Soviet-style medicine.

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Aristocracy in Nevada

The educational elites suppress the will of the people.

Andy Matthews


Increasingly, the actions of those who govern reflect the will of a small but influential group of special interests, rather than the will of the governed. One won't find a more egregious example of this than the public education system, nor a place where the consequences for education have been more disastrous than in Nevada.

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