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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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."

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.

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.