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Robert Fellner
Director of Policy
Robert Fellner is NPRI’s policy director and joined the Institute in December 2013. Robert has written extensively on the issue of transparency in government. He has also conducted legal research and assisted in crafting legal arguments for numerous public records-related lawsuits, including one which prevailed at the Nevada Supreme Court, resulting in a landmark decision that protected and expanded Nevadans’ rights to access and inspect government records.An expert on government compensation and its impact on taxes, Robert has authored multiple studies on public pay and pensions. He has been published in Business Insider, Forbes.com, the Las Vegas Review Journal, the Los Angeles Times, RealClearPolicy.com, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, ZeroHedge.com and elsewhere.
Robert has lived in Las Vegas since 2005 when he moved to Nevada to become a professional poker player. Robert has had a remarkably successfully poker career including two top 10 World Series of Poker finishes and being ranked #1 in the world at 10/20 Pot-Limit Omaha cash games.
Additionally, his economic analysis on the minimum wage won first place in a 2011 George Mason University essay contest. He also independently organized a successful grassroots media and fundraising effort for a 2012 presidential candidate, before joining the campaign in an official capacity.
The political push for state-worker collective bargaining
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The average Nevada teacher is losing nearly $7,700 a year to pay for other people’s retirement
Beginning this July, contribution rates to the state Public Employees’ Retirement System will increase to 29.25 percent of salary, an all-time high. This means that for every $10,000 spent on…
PERS files motion to overturn recent Nevada Supreme Court ruling
Apparently, not even repeated losses before the state Supreme Court will make some government officials comply with the Silver State’s public records law. It’s another example of why lawmakers need…
Nevada government pay gap highest in the nation, new data shows
When measured as a percentage of private-sector earnings, Nevada local government workers were by far the highest paid in the nation last year, according to newly released Census data. Last…
Nevada Supreme Court upholds state's open records law
Nevadans still have the right to see what the government is doing with their money, thanks to today’s state Supreme Court ruling that firmly rejected a series of legal…
CCSD sued for hiding records that could expose misconduct within the district
The Clark County School District is unlawfully and deliberately withholding records necessary to investigate allegations of wrongdoing within two divisions of the district, a just-filed lawsuit alleges.
Nevada Piggy Book
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CCSD asks state Supreme Court to delete transparency law
The Clark County School District is once again wasting tax dollars on frivolous legal battles designed to keep the public in the dark and the district immune from consequence for its repeated, willful violations of the state’s open records law.
Nation's leader in school choice dramatically outperforms peers, while spending much less
Earlier this week, Education Week released their K-12 Achievement Index, updated with the most recent federal data. The score is a comprehensive assessment of student performance which factors in math…