Robert Fellner, Author at Nevada Globe

Lombardo’s Licensing Reform Plan Will Help Nevadans Get Back To Work

January 18, 2023 7:00 amJanuary 23, 2023 8:46 am

It appears Governor Joe Lombardo was serious when he said he was going to help Nevadans get back to work, as evidenced by his recent executive order addressing Nevada’s burdensome system of occupational licensing laws. Nevada’s licensing laws for lower-income jobs are the most oppressive nationwide. These laws require people to...

Governor Sisolak Should Select Next Supreme Court Justice Based on Merit, Not Race

September 26, 2022 5:44 amSeptember 26, 2022 12:33 pm

Defining and treating people primarily based on their race or skin color is morally repugnant, and its recent resurgence should be condemned. The latest push for a race-based quota appeared in the opinion pages of the Nevada Independent, where the Las Vegas Chapter of the National Bar Association called for...

CDC Used Flawed Data To Approve Covid Child Vaccines

June 21, 2022 11:50 amJune 21, 2022 11:53 am

The CDC recently approved Covid vaccines for infants and other children under the age of five. The agency justified this recommendation, in part, by citing flawed data from a pre-print study that dramatically inflated the risk of Covid to kids. Specifically, the study calculated the total number of Covid-related deaths...

Fellner: End the forced masking of Nevada schoolchildren

February 7, 2022 8:45 amMarch 1, 2022 6:51 am

The Carson City School District has finally repealed its mask mandate after acknowledging that there were no discernible differences in Covid cases between schools that had a mandate and those that did not. Unfortunately, most Nevada students remain trapped within the Clark County School District, which still has a mask mandate...

Nevada Democrats should have the courage to defend their actual beliefs

December 23, 2021 12:42 pmDecember 30, 2021 12:01 pm

A temporary vaccine mandate enacted by the Nevada System of Higher Education was recently suspended after all Nevada Republicans on the Legislative Commission voted against making it permanent. The vaccine, of course, remains readily available to all those who wish to take it, but Democrats made clear that forcing everyone...

Nevada needs leaders who will defy next lockdown push

December 8, 2021 2:07 pmApril 3, 2022 8:36 am

Lockdowns were one of the “greatest peacetime policy disasters of all time,” concludes Professor Douglas Allen in a paper just published by the International Journal of the Economics of Business. Elsewhere, a team of researchers with the National Bureau of Economic Research “failed to find” any evidence that lockdowns led to a reduction...