Jan./Feb., 2001 issue
State regulation of work comp proceeded on tilted playing field
When Nevada legislators outlawed lawsuits by injured workers against work-comp insurers and administrators in 1995, the lawmakers essentially made a promise. In the absence of such lawsuits, they pledged, vigorous...
DeMint praises Nevada’s ESA law
Nevada parents this year received one of the most marvelous gifts lawmakers can provide: the ability for parents to customize the education of their own children. That was the assessment...
Nevada parents demonstrate massive desire for school choice
Las Vegas parents swamped state treasurer hearing rooms at the Sawyer government center Friday, pleading that regulations soon to be written allow their children quickly into the state’s historic new...
The work-comp logjam is leaking
It’s common knowledge that, for over a century, state-mandated workers’ comp systems have held sway as the “exclusive legal remedy” available to victims of workplace accidents. Frequently overlooked, however, is...
Avid for Stimulus money, pols short-circuitedoversight, got green-energy flops in return
When Sen. Harry Reid and President Barack Obama return to Las Vegas Monday for Reid’s 8th Annual National Clean Energy Summit, there’ll be a ghost with them on the dais....
100-day rule for ESAs stresses families out
Say you’re a family scrimping and sacrificing, in a still-tight Nevada economy, so your kids can escape some of the worst public schools in the country. If you suddenly learn...
Brian Sandoval, Man of the Hour?
Who’s the one man in Nevada with the authority to immediately resolve the problems besetting parents who want to set up Education Savings Accounts? It’s Gov. Brian Sandoval, who signed...
Language in Nevada state constitution reveals19th century anti-Catholic consensus, agenda
You might not expect it in this day and age, but Nevada’s Constitution still bears telling traces of a discriminatory 19th century doctrine the U.S. Supreme Court has characterized as...
The creed of the ‘common school’
Nevada’s state constitution speaks in several places of something called “the common schools.” While that term is regularly read today to mean secular tax-supported government schools, that wasn’t what the...