NBJ Features
Free Market WatchNevada’s Hidden Spending
Subpar accounting practices in Nevada government are making it difficult for taxpayers to learn how hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are spent. Months of inquiries by the Nevada Policy..[MORE].
July 2008
The Century-Old Scheme to Disempower Parents
If you’ve ever wondered why public K-12 education in the Silver State is so resistant to genuine reform, the answer is quite simple.
It was designed to be that way. Historians of public..[MORE].
June 2008
Was It Really So Hard?
How nice it is, for a change, to see government really feel our pain.
Across Nevada and the nation, individuals and business owners alike are confronting harsh economic realities by making..[MORE].
May 2008
An Alternate Reality
In the plot-defining scene early on in the “The Matrix,” Laurence Fishburne’s character, the sage Morpheus, reveals to the protagonist Neo that the world he thinks he’s been..[MORE].
April 2008
Nevada’s Public Education System
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America that “It is doubtless important to the good of nations that those who govern have virtues or talents; but what is perhaps still more..[MORE].
March 2008
Nevada’s Education Vanguard
It’s time to bring public charter schools to the forefront of Nevada education. Battle-worn and born of hardy pioneering stock, many of Nevada’s chartered public schools are emerging as..[MORE].
February 2008
Repeat Offenders
In the classic movie Groundhog Day, it takes Bill Murray’s character years and years before he finally gets it right. According to calculations by Harold Ramis, the film’s director,..[MORE].
January 2008
Death and Taxes
The battle over the Federal Estate Tax, also known as the Death Tax, just won’t go away. It’s like the energizer bunny – it keeps going and going.
It has been fought on the..[MORE].
December 2007
Nevada Tax Myths
You’d never know it from the incessant calls for new taxes on Nevadans, but Silver State residents already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation. Recently, the tax foundation in..[MORE].
November 2007
Federal Land Policy
Ever since Nevada achieved statehood in 1864, federal agencies have controlled most of the state’s land, refusing to release more than token amounts for construction of homes, schools, parks..[MORE].
October 2007
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