Regarding your Saturday editorial “Where’s the money?”: You note that budget gimmicks won’t work this time. But it depends on which ones you consider.
William A. Galston tugs on heartstrings to make the case that “States and Cities Deserve Taxpayer Support” (Politics & Ideas, Dec. 9).
Regarding your Saturday editorial “Where’s the money?”: You note that budget gimmicks won’t work this time. But it depends on which ones you consider.
The 2020 Financial State of the States report surveys the fiscal health of the 50 states prior to the coronavirus pandemic. This data is released today by Truth in Accounting (TIA), a think tank that analyzes government financial reporting.
How large could the shortfall in state government general revenues be, amidst the coronavirus and related crises?
When you sign the checks, you have the right to see to whom they’re made out.
“It appears that Nevada pension officials have exhausted all judicial avenues in their cynical effort to conceal information from taxpayers about the retirement benefits they fund for public employees. But given their well-established preference for ignoring the law, such an assessment may prove premature.”
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 4-3 on the side of the public’s right to know the retirement benefits of state employees in a high-profile public records case that began three years ago.
When it comes to addressing the nation’s water infrastructure crisis, cities and towns are ground zero.
This is our third column presenting the findings of the Nevada Controller’s Annual Report for fiscal year 2017.
Nevada received a “C” grade in a recently released report produced by Truth in Accounting, a nonpartisan nonprofit group that analyzes government financial data across the country.
Just a month ago, as friends and families prepared to gather for the holiday season, the men and women at the U.S. Census Bureau were busy releasing their latest annual estimates of population changes across the United States.
A pernicious myth is being spread by some of Nevada’s news organizations about the financial health of PERS — erroneously suggesting the public should be unconcerned about a multi-billion dollar debt that continues to consume more and more tax dollars every year.
A new report from the Nevada State Controller's Office provides an estimate of tax revenues foregone as a consequence of tax breaks granted to corporations across the state of Nevada in fiscal 2017.
A state panel overseeing the $38 billion Nevada public employee pension plan voted Thursday to lower its decades-old assumption about the return on its investments.
There are undoubtedly a variety of reasons behind Clark County School District Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky’s recent decision to retire. But one factor warrants further scrutiny: He would effectively lose money by continuing to work past the age of 53.
At the state level, public pension funds bear significant stress.
A bill before the Nevada Legislature would make secret the names of public employees in the state retirement system.
Op-ed by Robert Fellner, “In a just-released analysis of teacher pension plans nationwide, the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada failed to receive a single passing mark in the categories of cost, fairness, portability, sustainability or transparency.
By Alison Noon, includes "A Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday that the offices of Nevada's two statewide-elected officials who oversee the state's finances are so lacking in purpose that they should be abolished.
By Liz Farmer, includes “After six straight years of squirreling away money, budgeted figures for fiscal 2017 show a slight dip in rainy day fund balances across the 50 states.