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MY EUROPEAN VACATION: PART III

Michael Kurth September 3, 2015 Comments Off on MY EUROPEAN VACATION: PART III

My last column left off with me preparing to fly from Houston to Atlanta, then on to Venice, Italy, where I hoped to meet up with my wife, Cathy. She had been vacationing in

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LEGISLATING HIGHER WAGES: WINNERS AND LOSERS

Michael Kurth January 8, 2014 Comments Off on LEGISLATING HIGHER WAGES: WINNERS AND LOSERS

Fifty years ago, I was working after school as a “soda jerk” in a drug store when the minimum wage was increased to $1.25 an hour. I was pretty happy about it at the

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DEMOCRATS ABANDON SINKING SHIP

Michael Kurth December 4, 2013 Comments Off on DEMOCRATS ABANDON SINKING SHIP

A month ago, Sen. Ted Cruz led a last-ditch effort by conservative Republicans to derail, or at least delay, the implementation of Obamacare. The Democrats protested that the Affordable Care Act was the law

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