Nevada Journal
Language in Nevada state constitution reveals 19th century anti-Catholic consensus, agenda
Analysis: ACLU lawsuit declines to mention adverse U.S. Supreme Court rulings
100-day rule for ESAs stresses families out
Avid for Stimulus money, pols short-circuited oversight, 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. Call it the “Ghost of Stimulus-Act Past.” Or perhaps “The Spirit of Green-Energy Subsidy Failures Past.” No matter what it’s called, the thing is out of the grave and again stalking the land. It’s back because every million-dollar-plus renewable-energy loan that Nevada gave to green-energy companies, using its Stimulus Act dollars, subsequently failed and is now the target of “claw back” legal actions by the state.
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.
Nevada parents want school choice
How state lawmakers broke the 'Grand Bargain'
1990s work-comp laws attacked injured-worker costs on all fronts
If the Nevada workers’ comp pendulum in the 1980s swung too far into easy money for claimants — ultimately putting the system’s entire financial survival at risk — in the 1990s, that pendulum swung the other way, and frequently with a vengeance.
Political incentives naturally drove Nevada 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 politically sensitive issue of the State Industrial Insurance System’s (SIIS) growing financial shortfall. And they did so until that shortfall was metastasizing and the system was effectively insolvent.