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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 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, 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.
Prevailing Wage Rates, 2019
Nevada law requires governments to pay wildly inflated labor costs on public works projects, which are known as “prevailing wage” rates. This practice takes tens of millions of dollars out…
Pandemic exposes the teachers unions
As someone who has spent years writing in vain about the tremendous harm imposed on our children by teachers unions, I want to thank them for their actions during the…
Episode 18: Sisolak Tyranny Report
Free to Offend Episode 18 | Guest: Robert Fellner At what point does the “emergency” that ostensibly justifies Governor Steve Sisolak’s one-man-rule of Nevada no longer qualify as…
Safeguarding the Constitution during times of crisis
Consolidating the legislative and executive powers in the hands of one person is the very definition of tyranny. It has also been the normal state of affairs for the past…
NPRI files motion for expedited ruling on Separation of Powers challenge
Nevada Policy today asked the state Supreme Court to issue an expediting ruling on its Separation of Powers challenge. “District Court Judge Jim Crockett clearly erred when he dismissed our…
Episode 10: The world is ending, but can’t we still be optimistic?
Free to Offend Episode 10 Clearly, the world is coming to an end. On pretty much every front—politically, economically, culturally—it seems as if things are falling apart…
Ignore Sisolak, and decide for yourself how to celebrate Thanksgiving
The latest mandates issued by Governor Steve Sisolak, in addition to further restricting businesses across the state, require that Nevadans wear masks within their own homes while enjoying Thanksgiving dinner.
Judge’s ruling would make enforcement of the Separation of Powers impossible
In recognition of the profound harm that would result from denying Nevadans their fundamental right to seek enforcement of the state constitution, the Nevada Supreme Court in 2016 expanded the…
Paying for other people’s retirement: half of PERS costs now go to debt
Forty seven percent of what teachers and other Nevada public employees send to PERS next year will be spent on the system’s debt, rather than their own, future benefit. Despite…