Policy Analyst Anahit Baghshetsyan’s op-ed for the Las Vegas Review Journal about the New York City Mayor’s race and what it could mean for Nevada.
Read the op-ed here.
Policy Analyst Anahit Baghshetsyan’s op-ed for the Las Vegas Review Journal about the New York City Mayor’s race and what it could mean for Nevada.
Read the op-ed here.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote an article based on Policy Fellow Cameron Belt’s piece about a need for changing regulations in Nevada. Read the article here.
The Reno Gazette interviewed Policy Analyst Anahit Baghshetsyan about the changes to Nevada’s home insurance law. Read the full story here.
The Reno Gazette Journal featured an op-ed by Policy Analyst Anahit Baghshetsyan about film tax credits in Nevada. Read the full article here.
Nevada Policy’s Policy Analyst, Anahit Baghshetsyan, was interviewed by NPR affiliate KUNR about the legislature’s options for the difficult insurance situation in the Silver State. Read the article here.
Nevada Policy President, John Tsarpalas was interviewed on the American Potential Podcast about the grassroots victory over RCV ballot question in the 2024 election. Watch the interview here.
The Las Vegas Review Journal cited Nevada Policy’s research in its article about Governor Lombardo’s vetoes this legislative session.
The Review-Journal’s editorial quotes Research Analyst Anahit Baghshetsyan.
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LAS VEGAS — TweetNevada, a website that compiles the Twitter messages, or “tweets,” of Nevada state policymakers and helps citizens stay informed about the discussions surrounding the 2013 Nevada Legislature, was launched today with a new design.
The site, located at http://TweetNevada.com, compiles the tweets of the 51 Nevada state policymakers who currently have a Twitter account, and will include more as they are created.
Hosted by the Nevada Policy Research Institute, the site features a crisper layout and the ability to reply or retweet directly from the page.
In a separate column on the site, TweetNevada follows the hashtag #nvleg, which is used to designate tweets from citizens and journalists that relate to Nevada’s legislative activity.
“Twitter is the best way to find out what’s happening when it’s happening, and TweetNevada allows any citizen easy access to the conversation happening in Carson City,” said Victor Joecks, NPRI’s communications director.
“TweetNevada is important, because while the decisions made in Carson City affect everyone, relatively few citizens have the chance to actually go to the state capitol.
“By using the hashtag #nvleg, citizens are also able to join in the conversation and have their comments appear on TweetNevada.”
The number of elected officials on Twitter has grown substantially since TweetNevada launched in 2011. In 2011, only 32 policymakers were using Twitter compared to 51 today. Currently, 32 Democrats and 19 Republicans have a Twitter account. Twenty-eight members of the Assembly have an account, along with 19 senators and four statewide office holders.
“Too often Carson City becomes its own little world and politicians forget the concerns of the average citizen,” said Joecks. “TweetNevada allows the average citizen to follow what’s going on and, by replying to elected officials, to offer their perspective.”
While TweetNevada is hosted by NPRI, all the content on the site is generated by Twitter users.
LAS VEGAS — Responding to the Nevada Budget Department’s release of the “Agency Request Budget — Items for Special Consideration,” NPRI Deputy Policy Director Geoffrey Lawrence issued the following comments:
While it's great to see that Gov. Brian Sandoval has complied with Nevada's public-records laws by releasing the full agency-budget requests, Nevadans shouldn't place much stake in those requests’ significance.
That’s because they assume that every government agency should be given a substantial funding increase through costs — including pay increases — that automatically roll up. This outdated and broken budgeting process, commonly referred to as “baseline budgeting,” failed to exact any accountability over the use of public resources.
Fortunately, during the 2011 session, Sandoval and lawmakers took bipartisan action on an NPRI recommendation to reform the state budget process and adopted a new, priority- and performance-based approach.
This allows policymakers to identify the state's highest needs and to target the state's limited resources to the areas where those resources can have the greatest impact. Those moreimportant and credible agency budget requests had already been made public by the governor.
The requests released today are a relic of an old, dysfunctional system. Nevadans should recognize that agency requests produced through the old budget process are completely meaningless today, and these requests should be ignored.
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