All posts tagged "NPRI"

(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) As per usual, Harry Reid’s tome on renewable energy projects in Nevada — “Playing to win in Clean Energy,” produced at your expense — leaves out as much as it tells. Harry touts SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes project near Tonopah, which will use mirrors to reflect sunlight on a 528-foot...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Every election cycle, voters are inundated with political rhetoric coming from all directions. The common themes are all too familiar. Candidates go to great lengths to inform us they’re “business leaders, not politicians.” Others say they represent “working-class families” or that they’re running “for the children.” Still more label...

(NPRI) – The comprehensive guide to Nevada state policy issues, Solutions 2013, is now available for lawmakers, candidates and everyone interested in policy reforms, the Nevada Policy Research Institute announced today. Solutions 2013: A Sourcebook for Nevada Policymakers offers research, information and recommendations on 39 subject areas. Authored by Geoffrey Lawrence, NPRI’s...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A Carson City district judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a conservative Nevada think tank claiming that a lawmaker violated the state constitution’s separation of powers clause by also working as a public employee. The lawsuit was dismissed because the lawmaker targeted in the case by the...

(Las Vegas) – Responding to the release of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s so-called “economic development plan,” Geoffrey Lawrence, deputy policy director at the Nevada Policy Research Institute, released the following comments: The Governor’s Office of Economic Development has issued a three-year plan that would cartelize and collectivize the Silver State economy. It is...

(Las Vegas, NV) – Graduating Clark County high school students who show the potential to make a significant contribution to the cause of economic liberty should seek a $2,000 college scholarship being awarded by the Nevada Policy Research Institute. This is the second year that the Professor R.S. Nigam & NPRI Freedom...

(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) I thought it was a telling sign of our times when Las Vegas casino owners expressed greater regard and respect for the Chinese communist government of Macau than the one in D.C., but, when a Cuban immigrant compares a federal agency to the government of Fidel Castro, it is...

NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – Sometimes we take our liberties for granted. After all, we are American...

  (Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Since most of the news media, though not all, gave it short shrift and one self-styled pundit largely dismissed it as an exercise in futility, the brief filed by NPRI’s Center for Justice and Constitutional Litigation in its separation of powers lawsuit makes some salient points about why...

NN&V Exclusive (Lori Piotrowski) – Come every January, resolutions are made, then broken. But imagine the results if you had some help to keep that resolution! No, I’m not talking about joining a gym. Been there, done that. Multiple times. This is a resolution to not only improve you, but improve your...

(Andy Matthews/NPRI) – It is possible to have legitimate disagreements over the interpretation of parts of Nevada’s constitution. Article 3, Section 1 — the separation-of-powers clause in Nevada’s constitution — is not one of them. It reads: The powers of the Government of the State of Nevada shall be divided into three...

(Thomas Mitchell/4th St8) – When I interviewed Joseph Becker, the newly installed head of the Center for...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – It’s an argument the Left trots out year after year: “If low tax rates are so important, then why is the unemployment rate so high in Nevada?” Of course, it’s more of a political talking point than an invitation for substantive debate — leftists rarely want to have a...