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WHY IT MATTERS: Issues at stake in election

...Supreme Court decisions have made huge differences in American lives, from rulings to uphold Social Security, minimum wage laws and other Depression-era reforms to ringing endorsements of equal rights. Big decisions on health care, gun rights...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2012-10-12/why-it-matters-issues-stak
Political
Texas' Manchurian candidate

...guns, protecting civil rights, establishing the massive programs and Medicare and Medicaid, and creating national minimum wage laws." These are all endeavors, he argues, that should be left to the states. I could understand how a governor with...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/other-opinion/2011-08-17/texas%E2%80%99-manc
Other Opinion
Open Forum

...executions with an average of 1 every two weeks for Bush's five years as governor. George W. opposes the nation's minimum wage law and brags about Texas's tough "right to work" (anti-union) law. Tax reductions would not go to the people...

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Opinion
Two stores to leave Brainerd

...Timbers' Edge Professional Building is currently home to Cygneture Title & Abstract Inc. and Anakkala, Berns & Co. Minimum wage law changes Monday with large employers now paying at least $6.15 per hour to all employees and small employers paying...

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Business
Open Forum

...and to be trusted. Results matter.keep it Klang! Robert Kasper Deerwood Revisit the minimum wage Should federal minimum wage laws be revisited? (in 1975 the average CEO in America earned 78 times the minimum wage earners of their day...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/102406/opi_20061024026.shtml
Opinion
Open Forum

...efforts only help your friends in insurance, banking, and pharmaceuticals get a piece of the action. For fighting minimum wage laws---after all, the rest of us do not need to make a decent living (besides it leaves more in the pot for you...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/110306/opi_20061103042.shtml
Opinion
A tip for Emmer

...Tom Emmer has his way. On Monday, he said he supports legislation that would grant restaurants an exception to the minimum wage law for employees who receive tips. Minnesota is one of seven states that prohibit using the tip credit to reduce the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/071310/opi_20100713023.shtml
Opinion
Open Forum

...Employment and Economic Development, the bottom fourth of workers in Crow Wing County earn wages likely to increase if the minimum wage law, House File 48, passes. The number who would benefit has probably increased, now that the Super Wal-Mart has...

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Opinion
Open Forum

...Employment and Economic Development, the bottom fourth of workers in Crow Wing County earn wages likely to increase if minimum wage law currently in a certain House bill passes. This statement is a lot of meaningless words. Further he cites Wal-Mart...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/032805/opi_0328050001.shtml
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