NPRI Publications

Nevada’s hidden spending

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:25:00 EST

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

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:05:00 EST

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

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:01:00 EST

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

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:50:00 EST

State and local governments in Nevada spend millions each year lobbying other levels of the government, and taxpayers get little if anything in return.

The century-old scheme to disempower parents

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:15:00 EST

Why is public K-12 education in the Silver State so resistant to genuine reform? It was designed to be that way.

Out with the old

Thu, 29 May 2008 14:23:00 EST

The chicanery of Nevada's power mongers around the topic of term limits reminds us why we need those term limits in the first place.

Are delusional political beliefs really free?

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:15:00 EST

While most people practice intellectual self-discipline in their day-to-day lives, they often max out emotionally once they're in the voting booth.

’Baseless charges’

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:21:00 EST

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.

The solutions Nevada needs are right next door

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:59:00 EST

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

Quality & Quantity

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 EST

By embracing school choice, Nevada can duplicate the success of neighboring Arizona in addressing the biggest challenges facing K-12 education.

Was that really so hard?

Thu, 01 May 2008 13:01:00 EST

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.

Something for nothing � courtesy of the Federal Reserve

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:10:00 EST

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

Hammered by government’s ’help’

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:42:00 EST

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.

Watching the watchers

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:17:00 EST

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?

An alternate reality

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:22:00 EST

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.

Inheriting a mess

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:38:00 EST

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."

On the road to health-care Hell

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:59:00 EST

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.

Aristocracy in Nevada

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:21:00 EST

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.

The next real estate bubble

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:46:00 EST

The widespread consensus in America's financial centers today is that our nation's runaway real estate bubble is the direct result of the U.S. Federal Reserve's profligacy – i.e., its prolonged and heavy pedal-to-the-metal foot on the central bank's monetary accelerator.

Democrats want school choice, too

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:48:00 EST

Little doubt remains here in the Silver State that the education system is broken and in dire need of significant reform. The lackluster performance of the state's public school system is something Nevadans of all political persuasions recognize, as thousands of students graduate from high school each year without the basic skills needed to be successful either in college or in the work force.