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I lay on the cold, snowy parking lot next to my vehicle, my right shoulder throbbing where it hit the doorframe as I fell. My left knee is starting to hurt, and the voice in […]

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which President Biden signed on March 11, 2021, makes it much easier for federal workers diagnosed with COVID-19 to establish coverage under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act. To establish a […]

Thanksgiving week 2022 was one of difficult news stories. There were multiple reminders that the workplace is a dangerous place. We can focus our attention on making it safer through regulation, training, and attention, but […]

Recently, I wrote about the plans of the government to get into the topic of the size of seats on airplanes. See The FAA and Seats (August 2022). I was reminded of the topic when I recently took […]

It is Thanksgiving 2022. I sit this morning with anticipation of the usual, the coming gluttony and regret. All signs point to it being a good day. There is a great deal to be thankful […]

The impact is immense when a child loses a parent to a work-related fatality or when a family’s income drops because a parent becomes disabled or cannot return to work. This Kids’ Chance Awareness Week, […]

I have been writing about artificial intelligence (AI) for several years. There is an amazing evolution happening around us in terms of what machines can do. Remember Chatbot Wins 160,000 Legal Cases (June 2016), or Artificial Intelligence in […]

Evolutionary change is in the news. It caused me to do some reading, in which I learned some interesting points from a professor at WTAMU: "there is no 'should' in evolution. Evolution is not goal-oriented; it has […]