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Robert Fellner
Vice President & Director of Policy
Robert Fellner joined the Nevada Policy Research Institute in December 2013 and currently serves as the Institute’s Vice President and Director of Policy. Robert has written extensively on the issue of transparency in government. He has also developed and directed Nevada Policy’s public-interest litigation strategy, which led to two landmark victories before the Nevada Supreme Court. The first resulted in a decision that expanded the public’s right to access government records, while the second led to expanded taxpayer standing for constitutional challenges in Nevada.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, the Orange County Register, RealClearPolicy.com, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Examiner, 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.
Nevada Policy wins big at the Nevada Supreme Court
In a unanimous decision, the Nevada Supreme Court today ruled in favor of Nevada Policy in the Institute’s ongoing separation of powers lawsuit. In a landmark, precedent-setting ruling,…
Rent Control Means Fewer Homes, and Higher Prices
Rent control is the failed policy idea that just won’t die. At a recent forum for candidates vying to become the next Mayor…
Nevada law enforcement tries to steal money from innocent property owner, yet again
State law wrongly allows law enforcement to seize the property or money of those never convicted of a crime. This scheme is made even more perverse by the fact…
Nevadans deserve a governor that will defy next lockdown push
Lockdowns were one of the “greatest peacetime policy disasters of all time,” concludes Professor Douglas Allen in a paper just published by the International Journal of the Economics of…
New data once again shows that “Parents Know Better” than bureaucracy
When parents were given the choice of what school to send their child to, they chose schools that were “specifically effective” at improving the educational performance of their child. Those…
Separation of Powers Update: Oral Arguments Recap
Nevada Policy has spent more than a decade seeking judicial enforcement of our state’s constitutional separation of powers doctrine. The doctrine bars those tasked with enforcing the law—like country prosecutors—from…
The flawed argument for vaccine mandates
The argument for mandatory vaccination rests on two fundamentally contradictory claims. The first claim is undeniably correct: the vaccines work. In fact, they are so effective at preventing serious illness…
The Nevada Supreme Court has an obligation to enforce the constitutional limits imposed upon government
Update: On April 21, 2022, the Nevada Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion that adopted the public-interest exception to standing we argued for in this commentary. That the judiciary must…
Public health establishment can blame itself for vaccine hesitancy
The willingness of those within the public health establishment to engage in deception almost certainly contributed to the vaccine hesitancy that those same officials are now so frustrated with. Rather…
