Ron Knecht, Geoffrey Lawrence
The Internet Should Be Free, Not a Regulated Monopoly
By Ron Knecht and Geoffrey Lawrence Bureaucrats love regulation. It provides jobs for some of them, so usually they’re happy to create new regulations and expand existing ones. One…
Nevada State Spending: All the Facts You Wanted and More
By Ron Knecht and Geoffrey Lawrence This column is the first in a series presenting the findings and conclusions of Nevada’s 2016 Popular Annual Financial Report, which we…
Tea parties were a reaction to bipartisan cronyism
By Ron Knecht and Geoffrey Lawrence In our last column, we explained that the financial collapse of 2007-08 was due much to collusion between private banks and government. Congressional…
Repealing the Commerce Tax Will Not Unbalance the Budget
By Ron Knecht and Geoffrey Lawrence Recently Ron spoke to an industry group about the petition to give voters the final say this…
The Welfare-Industrial Complex
By Ron Knecht and Geoffrey Lawrence Long ago, as a reporter for his college newspaper, Ron covered city hall, including Urbana township, which provided public aid to…
Nevada K-12 Education Policy and Spending: Ground Hog Day
The liberal Washington Post recently reported that: “Scores on the SAT have sunk to the lowest level since the college admission test was overhauled in 2005, adding to worries about student performance in the nation’s high schools.”