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Marcos Lopez
Outreach & Coalitions Director
Marcos Lopez serves as the Outreach & Coalitions Director for Nevada Policy Research Institute, which includes government affairs and Hispanic outreach. For over a decade, Marcos has fought to advance free-market principles, limited government, and secure individual rights through electioneering, lobbying, and grassroots mobilization at all levels of government across nine states and Washington D.C.Originally from Miami, Marcos moved to Nevada in 2015 and has lived in Reno and Las Vegas, where he currently resides. His main areas of focus include economic opportunity, criminal justice reform, and school choice. Marcos’ work and efforts have been recognized and featured in The New York Times, The Las Vegas Review Journal, The Nevada Independent, This is Reno, and The Nevada Current.
Episode 71: Get Ready to Get Involved!
Free to Offend Episode 71 | Guest: Marcos Lopez, Nevada Policy Nevada’s legislative session is underway this month – which means the difficult work is about to begin for those…
Un impuesto con cualquier otro nombre sigue siendo un impuesto
Permítanme contarles un pequeño secreto: el gobierno AMA la inflación. Por algo lo llaman el impuesto oculto, y si hay algo seguro es que el gobierno adora absolutamente los impuestos.
A Tax by Any Other Name is Still a Tax
Allow me to let you in on a little secret: the government LOVES inflation. They don’t call it the hidden tax for nothing, and if there’s one thing that’s for…
Minimum Wage Question Fails to Consider Consequences
Question 2, as we noted in our last minimum wage piece, is as much about health care as the minimum wage. Currently, the minimum wage for hourly employees…
Question 2: Minimum Wage Hurts Those It’s Designed to Help
Perhaps no issue better serves as a litmus test of economic literacy (or illiteracy) than minimum wage. However, at this point the debate is theatrics – a regularly scheduled ritual…
El voto por orden de preferencia corre el riesgo de alienar aún más a los votantes
Los nevadenses tendrán ante sí tres preguntas en la boleta de votación de todo el estado este noviembre, y ninguna ha generado más debate e intriga entre los adictos a…
Question 3: RCV Risks Further Alienating Voters
Nevadans will have three statewide ballot questions before them this November, and none have driven more discussion and intrigue among political junkies and insiders than the question of ranked-choice…
Other States Say Ranked-Choice Voting is Confusing
Ranked-choice voting, on Nevada’s ballot next month, would change how we vote for statewide offices, the state legislature, and the U.S. House and Senate. …
Episode 59: Where is Nevada Headed Beyond 2022?
Free to Offend Episode 59 | Guest: Marcos Lopez, Nevada Policy’s Outreach Director How optimistic should we be about Nevada in the long term? Marcos Lopez, Nevada Policy’s new director of coalitions and…