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The federal minimum wage went up 70 cents an hour on Friday, to $7.25 an hour, the third and last of the scheduled increases enacted by Congress in 2007. Let the standard arguments begin:
Con: It sets…
In the latest validation of “Is this a great country, or what?” comes word that the family of Bob Marley, the Jamaican musician and poster child for two generation of marijuana smokers, has struck a licensing deal with a New…
Coffee-pot still and lard can confiscated by St. Louis Police during prohibition.
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the end to prohibition, and one of my old law partners sent me over a piece from the Wall Street Journal arguing for a reform of…
Let’s grant that the precarious condition of the country’s financial system requires government intervention on a massive scale. The hands-off-business Bush administration has confessed as much, and no responsible observer claims otherwise - although there is considerable disagreement about the right…
In the first Town and County Deer Debate in 2000, this editorial page was accused of “bubba-ism” for not taking seriously the possibility that an overabundance of white-tailed deer in an affluent suburb could be solved without (eeww!) violence.
We simply had…
Moving a parent or sibling into a nursing home is emotionally and financially difficult. Keeping them there may be getting even harder.
The Wall Street Journal reports that increasing numbers of frail and sick residents are being forced out of nursing…
Like Budweiser poured into a tall glass, reports swirled tonight that the board of directors of Anheuser-Busch Cos. has decided to reject the $46 billion takeover offer made last month by InBev, the Belgian-Brazilian brewing giant.
The online edition of the…
Nonprofit hospitals are increasingly demanding payment in advance for complex and expensive cancer treatments and other non-emergency care for life-threatening illness, the Wall Street Journal reports this week.
It highlights the story of 52-year-old Lisa Kelly of Lake Jackson, TX., who was…
