NPRI Commentaries are often picked up and published within the pages of newspapers and news magazines in Nevada and around the country.

Follow the links below to read the Institute's published work.

2011

• Unions prevail, while most Nevadans struggle
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, April 1, 2011
• A silver lining among the storm clouds
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, March 1, 2011
• Priorities for the 2011 Nevada Legislative Session
  By Victor Joecks, Nevada Business, February 1, 2011
• Better budgeting in Carson City
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 30, 2011
• Sandoval's priority-based budget a step in right direction
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Elko Daily Free Press, January 27, 2011
• Competition is part of meaningful reform for education
  By Victor Joecks, Reno Gazette-Journal, January 9, 2011
• It's about the margin
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, January 1, 2011

2010

• Shopping for a better school deal without busting the budget
  By Jeff W. Reed, Las Vegas Review-Journal, December 26, 2010
• Now the real fun begins
  By Andy Matthews, Nevada Business, December 1, 2010
• Number of Republican seats doesn't reflect preference
  By Victor Joecks, Elko Daily Free Press, November 19, 2010
• The unfairness of gerrymandering
  By Victor Joecks, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 14, 2010
• Uncertainty: The intangible that rules the world
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, November 1, 2010
• Challengers want sunlight
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, October 1, 2010
• Money behind closed doors
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, September 1, 2010
• Obama's belief in stimulus spending defies reality
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Washington Examiner, August 22, 2010
• Sandoval's having what Florida's having
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Penny Press, August 12, 2010
• Sandoval's having what Florida's having
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business, August 1, 2010
• A How-to Guide For Budget Reform: Part 1
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Budget and Tax News, July 13, 2010
• Masto encouraging blatant breaches of open meeting law
  By Karen Gray, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 11, 2010
• The One-Way Bet
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Budget and Tax News, July 1, 2010
• End social promotions to lower drop-out rate
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Reno Gazette-Journal, June 22, 2010
• Don't blame the tax base
  By Victor Joecks, Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 20, 2010
• Fix the approach, fix the problem
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, June 1, 2010
• Ivory tower elitists reveal their bizarre fantasies
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 9, 2010
• Racing to the top, or running in place?
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business, May 1, 2010
• Stakeholder group's agenda becoming more transparent
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Elko Daily Free Press, May 1, 2010
• Band-aids don't fix broken bones
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, April 1, 2010
• Why Florida succeeds where Nevada fails
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Lincoln County Record, March 25, 2010
• Health care ‘reform' bill all about concealing costs
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Elko Daily Free Press, March 23, 2010
• Using resources more effectively is critical
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Reno Gazette-Journal, March 14, 2010
• What could have been
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business, March 1, 2010
• TASC amendment could have averted fiscal crisis
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Elko Daily Free Press, February 9, 2010
• About that TASC Amendment
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business, February 1, 2010
• New Unfunded Federal Medicaid Mandate Would Spell Trouble for States
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Health Reform News, January 21, 2010
• New unfunded federal Medicaid mandate will cost Nevada
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Elko Daily Free Press, January 11, 2010
• Empowerment model puts classrooms first
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 3, 2010

2009

• Assessed value
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, December 20, 2009
• Tax officials face lawsuits over appraisal standards
  By Steven Miller, Elko Daily Free Press, December 2, 2009
• Nevada behind the curve on charter schools
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business, December 1, 2009
• Defrauded by the state?
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 29, 2009
• It's time to grade the teachers
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 1, 2009
• Legislature performs poorly
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, November 1, 2009
• Regulating child care out of financial reach
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 15, 2009
• Blaming the recession on free markets is unscientific
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Washington Examiner, October 7, 2009
• Is Nevada's education system underfunded?
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business Journal, October 1, 2009
• The truth will set you free
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, October 1, 2009
• School district actually spending $12,307 per pupil
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Las Vegas Review-Journal, September 27, 2009
• Tracking government online: Taxes trump transparency
  By Victor Joecks, Las Vegas Review-Journal, September 13, 2009
• PERS reforms do not go far enough
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, September 1, 2009
• County firefighters have money to burn
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 2, 2009
• Personal & Portable
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, August 1, 2009
• Hurting younger, poorer workers
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 5, 2009
• Playing with PERS
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, July 1, 2009
• Nevada Education's Funding Fantasies
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business Journal, June 1, 2009
• Lawmakers don't understand "essential"services
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Reno Gazette-Journal, May 26, 2009
• A blueprint for Nevada's budget dilemma
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 3, 2009
• Renewable energy: Sporadic and costly
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, May 1, 2009
• Increasing education spending will get us nowhere
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Reno Gazette-Journal, April 15, 2009
• Nevada needs more charter schools
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business Journal, April 1, 2009
• Increase taxes now, boost budgets later
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 22, 2009
• Diversity reality
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 14, 2009
• Saving kids ... and money
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business Journal, March 1, 2009
• Agency preys on local, state coffers
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Reno Gazette Journal, February 10, 2009
• Education: Spend More or Enact Reform?
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Las Vegas Review Journal, February 8, 2009
• The Power Of The PERS
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, February 1, 2009
• College spending keeps rising
  By Andy Matthews, Elko Daily Free Press, January 27, 2009
• Governance? Not hardly
  By Karen Gray, Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 4, 2009
• Welcome to the Long Run
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, January 1, 2009

2008

• High taxes, tuition not the solution
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Reno Gazette-Journal, December 23, 2008
• Authority trying to change subject
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, December 16, 2008
• Artificial Credit: Bad monetary policy from Washington D.C.
  By Steven Miller, Nevada Business Journal, December 1, 2008
• Fire Alarm Budget Buster: Time to douse out-of-control overtime pay
  By Geoffrey Lawrence,  Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 23, 2008
• To free itself from boom-bust cycles, state needs spending limits
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Las Vegas Business Press, November 11, 2008
• Eminent Domain, a True Infringement
  By Geoffrey Lawrence, Nevada Business Journal, November 1, 2008
• Economics, more than politics, at root of teachers-Culinary conflict
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Business Press, October 20, 2008
• Nevada's tax-raisers have you in their cross hairs
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Business Press, October 7, 2008
• Budgets bust because they boom
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 5, 2008
• A Modest Proposal: Exporting Education
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Nevada Business Journal, October 1, 2008
• Education spending growth outpaces houses, income...even gas prices
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Elko Daily Free Press, August 29, 2008
• Is Nevada's tax burden low or high?
  By Andy Matthews, Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 24, 2008
• Public higher education in Nevada needs a basic rethinking
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Business Press, August 20, 2008
• Little to show for per-pupil spending
  By Patrick R. Gibbons, Reno Gazette-Journal, August 13, 2008
• Links between education and economic growth weaker than expected
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Business Press, August 4, 2008 
• Battle of the Legislators
  By Andy Matthews, Nevada Business Journal, August 2008
• Nevada's Hidden Spending
  By Louis Dezseran, Nevada Business Journal, July 2008
• Incumbent entitlement
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 15, 2008
• The Century-Old Scheme to Disempower Parents
  By Steven Miller, Nevada Business Journal, June 2008
• In dire need of both quality and quantity
  By Matthew Ladner, Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 18, 2008 
• Was It Really So Hard?
  By Andy Matthews, Nevada Business Journal, May 2008
• Bureaucrats helpless? Hire more of them!
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, April 13, 2008
• An Alternate Reality
  By Andy Matthews, Nevada Business Journal, April 2008
• On The Road To Health-Care Hell
  By Steven Miller, Penny Press, March 20, 2008
• On the road to health care hell
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 16, 2008 
• Nevada's Public Education System
  By Andy Matthews, Nevada Business Journal, March 2008
• Nevada Parents Want More Charter Schools, State Ed Board Denies Them
  By Steven Miller, School Reform News, February 2008
• Nevada's Education Vanguard
  By Ricci Rodriguez-Elkins, Nevada Business Journal, February 2008
• Gross Receipts Tax A Really Gross Idea
  By Steven Miller, Penny Press, January 17, 2008
• Attraction to this tax is totally gross
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 15, 2008
• Repeat Offenders
  By Steven Miller, Nevada Business Journal, January 2008

2007

• The confused gaming tax debate
  By Bill Weidner, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Dec. 9, 2007
• Death and Taxes
  By Dick Patten, Nevada Business Journal, December 2007
• There They Go Again
  By Andy Matthews, Penny Press, Nov. 29, 2007
• Behind the Tax Talk
  By Steven Miller, Penny Press, Nov. 22, 2007
• Budget battle seems familiar
  By Andy Matthews, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nov. 16, 2007
• Budget battle a strange but familiar episode
  By Andy Matthews, Elko Daily Free Press, Nov. 9, 2007
• Nevada Tax Myths: Misconceptions Allow Politicians to Dodge Accountability
  By Steven Miller, Nevada Business Journal, November 2007
• Creating Economic Hardship in Clark County
  By Charles F. Barr, Nevada Business Journal, October 2007
• Rogers works for Board of Regents
  By Joe Enge, Reno Gazette-Journal, Sept. 24, 2007
• What comes around, goes around: Casinos to blame for tax bull's-eye
  By Steven Miller, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sept. 23, 2007
• All the Federal Land in Nevada Adds up to Economic Disaster (full NPRI study)
  By Charles F. Barr, Penny Press, Sept. 13, 2007
• Denying School Choice to Those Who Need it Most
  By Joe Enge, Nevada Business Journal, September 2007
• No time like the present
  By Andy Matthews, Penny Press, Aug. 2, 2007
• Victory for transparency
  By Steven Miller, Elko Daily Free Press, July 24, 2007
• Turning the tide
  By Andy Matthews, Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 17, 2007
• Battle for control
  By Joe Enge, Liberty Watch, May 2007
• Changing our ways
  By Joe Enge, Liberty Watch, April 2007
• Everyone suffers when educrats don't do their homework
  By Andy Matthews, Record-Courier, May 18, 2007
• Do the homework
  By Andy Matthews, Elko Daily Free Press, May 16, 2007
• Shades of Julius Caesar in Empowerment Plan
  By Joe Enge, Reno Gazette-Journal, March 28, 2007
• The district's full-day kindergarten stats
  By Andy Matthews, Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 11, 2007