January, 1997 issue
Expert critics of Common Core to face NDE officials in unique public events
Two nationally recognized educators — both critics of the controversial Common Core State Standards — are scheduled to participate next week with representatives of the Nevada Department of Education in...
PERS releases Social Security numbers of over 100 retired and current judges
In an apparent attempt to skirt Nevada’s transparency laws, the Nevada Public Employees’ Retirement System has released the Social Security numbers and other identifying information of over 100 current and...
Supreme Court case bears on bill before Legislature
As the Nevada Legislature ponders allowing injured workers to once again choose their doctors, a case now before the state’s high court suggests the current ban on such choice may...
Is Nevada work comp legit?
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...
That workers’ compensation makes people crazy is no mere coincidence
“…very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.” — Edmund Burke Nevada’s workers’ compensation system is Kafkaesque. Literally. In one way, it’s simply because workers’...
How a Prussian Junker’s power obsessions framed modern work comp systems: Part 1
During the early 20th Century, in every American state save Texas, politicians and politically active special interests — some ostensibly representing labor and others business — passed into law compulsory...
How a Prussian Junker’s power obsessions framed modern work-comp systems: Part 2
Near the end of the 1860s, a series of terrible accidents in coalmines and on railroads dominated much of the news all around Europe. Responding to the situation, the Reichstag...
Political incentives naturally droveNevada workers’ comp into the ditch
Nevada’s workers’ comp system in the early 1990s was facing a near-perfect storm of problems. State bureaucrats and politicians — as reported previously — had for years been ducking the...
Today’s workers’ comp still bears imprint of Prussia’s fear of democracy, rule of law
The unique design of the modern workers’ compensation system of accident insurance owes a surprising amount to the anxieties and fears of democratic reforms that beset Prussia’s upper crust throughout...