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Steven Miller

Steven Miller is vice president for policy at NPRI and has been full-time with the Institute since 1997. Steven oversees public policy research, including the Institute's studies, conferences, commentaries and in-depth research projects.


Publications :
Policy Studies

Transforming Education in Nevada Through High-Quality Digital Learning

The Nevada Piglet Book 2008

Getting Plucked in Nevada

Frequently Asked Questions (and Hysterical Allegations) Regarding TASC

Nevada's Chronic Overspending and How to Deal With It

The Destructive Impact of a Gross Receipts Tax


Commentaries

Who are ‘John Does 1-10’ in monorail-bond lawsuit?

Monorail bondholder sues for fraud

Despite repeated promises of backers, government takeover of monorail looms

Monorail bankruptcy judge: Let’s talk money

White House: $1.3 billion more in Nevada will 'create' 10,000 new jobs

Court-managed foreclosure program may violate Nevada Constitution

Horsford-led IFC may have illegally plundered millions from College Savings Plan

Speaker Oceguera got more double-dipping pay than he claimed

NLV fire department confirms Oceguera’s double-dipping

Speaker Oceguera — another government ‘double-dipper’?

The lawmakers vs. the law: Part V

The lawmakers vs. the law: Part IV

The lawmakers vs. the law, Part III

The lawmakers vs. the law: Part II

The lawmakers vs. the law: Part I

Nevada’s Edusaurs in distress

Diversification’s unhappy history: Part V

Diversification’s unhappy history: Part IV

Diversification’s unhappy history: Part III

Diversification’s unhappy history: Part II

Diversification’s unhappy history: Part I

Who has the power?

Report: Nevada’s financial position ‘precarious’

Best of both worlds?

Incomparable — but not in a good way

The new-superintendent dance

The rise of sociopathic government

Time to adapt

Moody’s blues

Death by politician

Thirty years of bad faith — and counting

A response to Assessor Schofield

Uh-oh — the public is starting to understand

Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part III

Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part II

Coming soon: A more transparent Nevada

Destroying child care to 'help' it: Part I

Axing the public’s lawyer

Larceny by any other name

Are you invisible?

Opportunity missed

The real crisis

Obama’s multi-trillion-dollar cover-up

Legislature’s dirty little secret revealed

Helicopter Ben hearts zombies

Hammer therapy

Lemmings in suits

NPRI's look at the LVCVA

The Bubble Factory

NSEA sticks it to Culinary

The code language is flying again

Public higher education in Nevada needs a basic re-thinking

Spend more and get less

The century-old scheme to disempower parents

Out with the old

'Baseless charges'

Watching the watchers

On the road to health-care Hell

The next real estate bubble

The Covert Consensus

Welcome to Rubelandia

Big Labor's favorite tool

Still gross

Repeat offenders

Little Oliver asks for more

Nevada tax myths

The subtext behind the tax talk

Karma's gonna get ya

The great public authority swindle: Part II

The great public authority swindle: Part I

A little sunshine for Nevada?

Hard lessons learned in budget process

Time to get real on career and technical education

Street Smarts

It’s NOT about the children

When minimizing wages is union policy

Helping the Poor — or helping The Mob?

Nevada’s hidden accountability wars

Blatherskite

Cringing as a strategy

LVCVA: The Larcenous Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority

The Private Sector Would Do Better

TASC: Reagan’s gift to Nevada

Fake Friends of the Republic

Pseudo-Compassion and the State

Morally hazardous

The Long War

'Disciplining' Canadian pharmacists - from Nevada

The Significance of TABOR

Infantile Adult Syndrome

Dead and Not Knowing It, Part 2

Dead and Not Knowing It, Part 1

On Ratchets

Why Nevada Public Education Is Not About to Improve

In Thrall to Dewey’s Ghost

Squid

The Confession

The Incumbency Problem

High Anxiety

Bow down before your masters

Growth Task Force Follies

A Really, Really Bad Idea

The Red Herring

Divide and Conquer – Again

The Luckiest Ponzi Scheme

How much carnage?

A Conspiracy against Excellence

On Being Blinded

The ‘48th in the Nation’ Ruse

Running Scared

What Prop 13 was really all about

Boilerplate for Bigger Tax Burdens

Culinary’s Sinister New Partner

Watershed

On Anger

The Scofflaw NEA

‘Incidental’ union violence

Pushing poverty

Force? Or Freedom?

Risky Business

The Bad Faith Coalition

Reds, Part II

Reds

The ‘Open Meeting Law’ Distraction

With Some Fava Beans

Free the Teachers

Artful Dodgers and ‘National Average Funding’

The Calculus of Consent

The Predator Coalition

The Horns of the Court

Nevada’s alienation factories

Waaay out of touch

The Bush-obsessed impeach ... themselves

Chain Gang Education

The More Things Change...

The Nevada State Lemon Association

Flat-Earth Barristers

The New American Socialism

Mere Subjects

The Root of the Problem

The Malefactors of 2003

A 10 on the Richter Scale

Official Claptrap

Collectivist Bargaining

Nevada's New Class, Part III

Nevada's New Class, Part II

Nevada's New Class, Part I

The Conspiracy Against Taxpayers

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Looking the Other Way

The Bar Sinister

The Rule of (No) Law

More Supreme Court Howlers

The Sign on the Senate Doors

The Gathering Storm

The People Be Damned

Cloud Cuckoo Land

The Presumed Serfdom of Taxpayers

The Big Sleep

Whom Do We Eat First?

The Predators Bawl

Taxing Lies

The 'Broad Based' Tax Scam

The Tipping Point

The Real Deficit: Credibility

Behind the Rationalization

An American Imperium?

Hijacking Toddlers

On the Backs of the Poor

The Sales Tax from Hell

The 'Fair Share' Fib

Foxes in the Henhouse

Why the Governor’s Tax-Hike Panel Failed

Saving the Young AND the Budget

How SNWA Tries to ‘Soak’ Taxpayers

A Stealth Income Tax

Hoover-nomics for Nevada?

Sepsis in the Banking System

Let’s Leave the Bronze Age

Ever-So-Scientific ... Twaddle

Spending Every Last Red Cent

Don't forget Prussia

Redoubled Efforts and Forgotten Aims

Humbug from Nevada's Trial Lawyers

Reaping the Whirlwind

Coming to America

Using the Fear of Big Money to Raise . . . Big Money

A Cautionary Tale

How Not to Stimulate the Economy

What is the Real Problem?

Nevada Needs Antitrust Reform


Blogs :

The continuing campaign for a gross-receipts tax

When you're right, you're right – even when you're center-left






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