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Can't build a strong economy on a weak minimum wage
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by: Gina Schaefer
It didn't take long after my husband and I opened our first hardware store in 2003 for people to start coming in and asking us to open in their neighborhood, too.
By 2009, we had grown to six Ace Hardware stores in Baltimore and Washington DC, with our seventh store opening in 2010 in Takoma Park, MD. The next year, Old Takoma Ace Hardware was one of four stores, out of 4,500 locally-owned and operated Ace Hardware stores worldwide, to win the "Coolest Hardware Store" award from Ace Hardware Corporation.
We expanded further in 2012, growing from seven stores to nine with the addition of our Woodley Park, DC and Canton, Baltimore locations. -
Unjust Prosecution Shows Why We Need Death-With-Dignity Laws
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In each of the 43 "Murder, She Wrote" novels I've written based upon the popular TV show of the same name, a murder is committed. Someone in the prime of life is denied many years of fulfillment and happiness. Toward the end of each book the murderer is identified through the fictitious Jessica Fletcher's sleuthing, and justice is served, as it should be.
But then there's the case in Pennsylvania of Barbara Mancini, an exemplary woman, wife, mother of two teenage children, devoted daughter, and Philadelphia nurse who is in serious legal trouble because of an overzealous state attorney general. -
Campaign for Communities
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by: Kathleen Rogers, Antonio Gonzalez, Greg Moore
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Campaign for Communities, which created a coalition of Latino, African American, low-income and environmental organizations working to educate, register and turn out voters using environmental issues as motivation. During the 2004 and 2008 election cycles, we registered hundreds of thousands of voters and turned out more -- all of whom were educated as to how their health was at risk from environmental issues and how to analyze candidates' records.
Most recently, we conducted an on-the-ground Latino voter education/registration/turnout on California's Prop. -
The Current and Jacks Fork Rivers Need Stronger Protection
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by: John Whitaker
I was born and raised in Salem, Missouri. My family farm (where my parents still reside) is an 18 minute drive from Tan Vat, which is my favorite "put-in" on the Current River. (The Current and Jacks Fork Rivers comprise the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, or ONSR.) Overnight float trips and quail hunts along the stream played a defining role in my childhood, and every time I am home, I make the trip to its banks.
While I now live in Raleigh, NC, many members of my family and friends still call Salem home. Many of us support an update to the National Park Service's General Management Plan (GMP) for the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
Low Minimum Wage is Bad for Women, Families and Business
The President Can Do More For Equal Pay: Sign An Executive Order
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A Stark Choice in the New Year
Five Years After TVA, Missouri Faces Own Impending Coal Ash Disaster
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by: Lilly Ledbetter
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Can't build a strong economy on a weak minimum wage (by: Gina Schaefer) in the Annapolis Capital Gazette
Unjust Prosecution Shows Why We Need Death-With-Dignity Laws (by: Donald Bain) in the Philadelphia Daily News
Campaign for Communities (by: Kathleen Rogers, Antonio Gonzalez, Greg Moore) in the Detroit News
Low Minimum Wage is Bad for Women, Families and Business (by: Sherry Stewart Deutschmann) in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
The President Can Do More For Equal Pay: Sign An Executive Order (by: Lilly Ledbetter) in the Washington Post
A Stark Choice in the New Year (by: Scott Klinger) in the Tomball Potpourri
Accountability in War and Peace (by: Patrice McDermott) in the Roll Call
Farm Bill is no Place for Poison Pills (by: Susan Harley) in the Durango Herald
Congress: This Christmas, Help the Unemployed, Not Wall Street (by: Frank Clemente) in the Battle Creek Enquirer
A Business Owners Case for Raising Minimum Wage (by: David Bolotsky) in the Deer Park Broadcaster
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