New Orleans It seems we may be involved in a protracted bit of high-low bargaining over minimum wages in the political and policy areas. The President has pushed for an increase of the federal minimum from the current $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour. The minimum wage has been frozen since the last year …
Month: May 2014
Beltway Groups Seem to Have Gotten “Nothing for Something” on Deportation Relief
New Orleans A couple of times per week more than 40 years ago I would stop at a Walgreens in downtown Little Rock for a cup of coffee with Max Allison, a legendary political operator and campaign manager for powerhouse Congressman Wilbur Mills and other Arkansas big whoop politicos. Enjoyably to me and several others, …
President Defaults on Net Neutrality, Companies Bully the Public
New Orleans The battleground is clear, so let’s hope that the contending forces are ready for a slugfest rather than a fake pillow fight. The FCC in a 3-2 vote put the chairman’s two-tracked proposal for a faster “pay for streaming” lane up for formal discussion and comment before a final vote in several months. …