Press Releases
Small local pension fund gets high marks for transparency
For the first time ever, a Nevada public pension fund complied with a public records request for basic pension payout data without wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer…
Political games kill nation’s most promising educational choice program
For Immediate Release Contact: Michael Schaus, 702-222-0642 LAS VEGAS, NV — The Nevada Policy Research Institute sends its deepest regrets to the thousands of families that will be left without…
Senator Heidi Gansert unwittingly spotlights the destructivity of political careerism
For Immediate Release Contact: Michael Schaus, 702-222-0642 CARSON CITY, NV — In its legal fight to make the state’s political class and government agencies respect the Nevada Constitution’s separation of…
The constitution doesn’t mean what it says, according to Senator Gansert
For Immediate Release Contact: Michael Schaus, 702-222-0642 CARSON CITY, NV – Last week, State Senator Heidi Gansert filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit the Nevada Policy Research Institute’s Center…
Nevada Senators vote to keep their pensions hidden from taxpayer scrutiny
Today, 11 state senators — most of whom are PERS members themselves — just passed a completely unenforceable law aimed at making private their taxpayer-funded pensions. Such a singular focus…
PERS secrecy bill would leave taxpayers in the dark
Having long championed the principles of a transparent and accountable government, the Nevada Policy Research Institute is dismayed to hear that some lawmakers are working to weaken the state's public…
SB384 would make the name of every Nevada public employee confidential
For Immediate Release Contact Robert Fellner, 702-222-0642 CARSON CITY, NV — Senate Bill 384 is designed to make secret the names of every retiree collecting a taxpayer-funded pension from…
Las Vegas Metro corrections officer nearly quadruples $83,000 salary to $306,000 with OT, benefits
For Immediate Release Contact: Robert Fellner, 702-222-0642 Seven Las Vegas Metropolitan corrections officers received overtime (OT) payouts over $100,000 last year, according to newly released public pay data from TransparentNevada.com.…
Two UNR professors earned over $1,000,000 apiece last year, new data shows
For Immediate Release Contact: Robert Fellner, 702-222-0642 Two University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) professors received compensation packages of more than $1,000,000 each, according to newly released 2016 pay data from…