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The argument is that the lowest-paid employees would enjoy an annual pay boost and at least maintain their standard of living, and eliminating some of the lobbying and politics behind the minimum wage. This week, we ask: Should the minimum wage be tied automatically to cost-of-living adjustments? .
You have to read these
When we asked book clubs in the Charlotte area to send us their reading lists for the year ahead, more than 90 clubs responded. We heard from the Manly Man Book Club in south Charlotte, Women With Options in Lenoir and the Bookies in Wadesboro. The Happy Bookers sent in its list -- so did the Bossy Bookclub Babes, the Day Time Page Turners and the Chick-Lits. We found a range of themes: One group will read contemporary fiction this year (its pick for this month is "Never Let Me Go," by Kazuo Ishiguro); another will focus on Southern voices ("Where Trouble Sleeps," by Clyde Edgerton, is its November book). And we heard from a range of ages. The Kids Club is open to second- and third-graders; the Third Tuesday Readers consists of retired, or near-retired, members.
Want early tax refund? Think twice
Income tax season won't start on time this year.
If you're not looking forward to facing the Tax Man, that's not a problem. But if you want that refund right away, it could be.
How big of a problem is not clear. Many who file early are doing so to get money back. Among them are South Florida's poorest residents. The taxpayers who qualify for thousands of dollars in the form of an earned income tax credit, which is available to people who don't make much money.
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Buyer found for Brookline's historic Richardson House
But he redesigned much of the interior, and added new space for his office staff and library. The original house was built in 1805 as a summer retreat for the family of Boston's Samuel Gardner Perkins. Richardson lived there for almost all of his brief productive life. While there he created buildings that made him the most influential American architect of his century. He died in the second-floor bedroom, one of the rooms the deed restriction requires the new owner to restore. Among its features are two metal rings, bolted into the wall, which the architect gripped to pull his enormous bulk out of bed in his last years, when he was plagued by Bright's disease. According to a spokesperson, the new owner will also restore such details as the stained glass windows designed by the famed artist John LaFarge.
Christian Democrat Cunek example of modern Czech segregator-press
I think that an unemployed person should get money for three months, but then he/she should come and apply for public benefiting work. Who does not want to work, must die of hunger." Nemecek says that not even Miroslav Kalousek, party former chairman who is considered a right-winger, would have dared say something like this. This year, Cunek moved a majority of rent non-payers, most of them Romanies, to "indestructible" container-like flats with washable plaster and transferred the others during the night far away from Vsetin from where they will not return because they do not have money for bus, Nemecek writes. Svehla writes in Respekt that the situation of the Romany minority, which is about 400,000 strong in the 10 million country according to estimates, has been worse and worse in the Czech Republic since the change of regime in 1989.
Being 'green': Practical, possible... and profitable?
Derbyshire County Council accounts for around 16 million copies and printouts per year and Ricoh will plant 1,600 saplings per year in an attempt to offset carbon emissions. And that's just one way the printer/copier industry is trying to distance itself from a close association with deforestation. Wagland argues that with paper "a necessary evil" it is actually the vendors who are working to cut down on paper wastage � again something which presses the cost and social responsibility buttons of their customers. He says: "Paper waste is probably the biggest item in any company's landfill and waste costs. And copiers and printers are the fastest growing area of energy consumption." Kennard adds that it may actually be the recently well-publicised hikes in energy bills which force companies to recognise the savings which can be made.
PM wants mandatory sentences for 'serious' drug crimes
He did not say what offences would fall into that category or how long the sentences would be, but he did not mention marijuana in connection with mandatory sentencing. He promised new money for drug investigations and prosecutions, bigger campaigns to identify and close drug labs and marijuana grow ops, tougher border enforcement to keep drugs out of the country and more RCMP efforts to seize proceeds of crime Harper stressed that two-thirds of the money in the strategy would go to programs designed to help addicts quit and raise public awareness of the dangers of drugs. The rest, $21.6 million, would go to enforcement efforts. Liberal MP Keith Martin, a physician, said the strategy "will be terrible for Canada because it will result in increased drug use, increased crime, increased incarceration rates and increased costs to the taxpayer.
Matchmaker Livermore tells women 'How to Marry a Fabulous Man'
And don't say, "I like movies, do you?" Of course he'll say "yes." To find out if he's ethical, say, "My friend saw the guy she's dating shoplifting and didn't know what to do. How serious do you think that is?" If he says, "That's funny - my friends do that, too," then he may not be right for you. Q: Do women sell themselves short, or "settle"? A: Yes - because they're too lazy to get out there and put as much effort into finding a husband as finding a job. You can't just sit home and order a pizza. E-mail Carolyne Zinko at czinko@sfchronicle.com. .
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