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'Finding Private Solutions for Public Problems'

NPRI's dinner a big success

The Institute's 16th Anniversary Celebration, featuring Newt Gingrich as keynote speaker,  was a tremendous success.  We thank all of you who attended.

 

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Recent NPRI Public Policy Studies:

The Federal Land Stranglehold
– and What Nevada Can Do About It

by Charles F. Barr

A TASC for Nevada: Economic benefits for the Silver State of TASC-style spending control
by David Tuerck, Ph.D., Paul Bachman, MSIE and Alphonso Sanchez-Penalver, MSF

NPRI's 2007 Roundtables: Career & Technical Education in Nevada
by Robert Schmidt, Ph.D.
and John Ziebell

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Nevada Journal

Little Oliver asks for more

Nevadans press for more charter schools, and the board of beadles blanches in fear.

 

Death and taxes

The Federal Estate Tax rate is set to spike.

 

Nevada tax myths

Misconceptions allow our politicians to dodge accountability for bad public policy.

 

The confused gaming-tax debate

We can find new revenues without creating any new taxes.

 

The subtext behind the tax talk

They want you at their mercy.

 

Lessons from Texas

We should recognize the benefits of end-of-course exams.

 

There they go again

The latest budget battle is a strange but familiar episode.

 

Right then, and right now

Milton Friedman’s ideas continue to shape America and the world.

 

Follow the labor money

Financial transparency is needed on the public labor front.

 

This land is their land

Federal land policy creates economic hardship in Clark County.

 

Talking to the hand

School boards have turned the Open Meeting Law upside down.

 

Behind the housing numbers

Despite the nationwide bust, prices in Nevada remain high.

 

Who works for whom?

Problems abound in the chancellor’s office.

 

Issue Briefs Index


 

The enactment and enforcement of unjust laws are the greatest crimes that are committed by man against man.

    

The crimes of single individuals invade the rights of single individuals. Unjust laws invade the rights of large bodies of men, often of a majority of the whole community; and generally of that portion of community who, from ignorance and poverty, are least able to bear the wrong.

 

— Lysander Spooner
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
1845