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Public Records Complaint Filed Against Incline Village GID
A complaint was filed this week in district court that alleges that the Incline Village General Improvement District is illegally withholding public records. […]
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Dept. of Corrections Issues Rebuttal to NPRI About Employee Overtime (Opinion)
By John Borrowman, Nevada Department of Corrections Deputy Director of Support Services On behalf the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC), I am providing factual corrections in response to the article posted from the Nevada Policy […]
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Government workers collected overtime pay despite not working a full 40-hour week (Opinion)
Submitted by the Nevada Policy Research Institute. (NDOC submitted a rebuttal to a part of this story. It is available here.) The Nevada Policy Research Institute is pleased to celebrate Sunshine Week — a national […]
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OPINION: IVGID’s efforts to conceal public records gets bizarre
By Steven Miller, Nevada Journal Has Incline Village’s often-criticized local government — the Incline Village General Improvement District, or “IVGID” — finally gone off the deep end? According to district staff, members of the public […]
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OPINION: PERS secrecy bill based entirely on known falsehood
By Robert Fellner, NPRI State Senator Julia Ratti’s Senate Bill 384 is the latest salvo in a five year campaign of misinformation designed to keep taxpayers from knowing how the Public Employees’ Retirement System of […]
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NPRI Takes Legal Action Against State Over Public Records
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) is once again being taken to court over public records. The Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI) announced yesterday that it is petitioning the Nevada Supreme […]
Government
Sandoval Announces Compromise on Tax Plan, NPRI Responds
CARSON CITY – Governor Brian Sandoval issued today following statement about funding the state’s executive budget. “In the spirit of bipartisan compromise, I have put forward a revenue plan that incorporates the best thinking of our elected […]
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OPINION: Is Nevada Workers’ Comp System Legit?
By Steven Miller, Nevada Journal Line up all the problems with Nevada’s workers’ comp system that injured workers will tell you about, and it’s easy to begin to wonder: Is this system really on the […]
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Want to Know What Your University or Government Employee Makes? Transparent Nevada Has Been Updated
SUBMITTED BY NPRI Transparent Nevada updated with 2014 compensation data; charter schools included for first time LAS VEGAS — TransparentNevada.com, the website that allows users to search public employee salary and benefit information by name, […]
Education
Opinion: Critics of Common Core to face educational officials in public events
Forums designed to give lawmakers, parents, teachers the chance to learn and ask questions By Karen Gray, NPRI/Nevada Journal Two nationally recognized educators — both critics of the controversial Common Core State Standards — are […]