Minimum wage debate has the wrong focus

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno and his primary opponents all oppose raising the minimum wage. Both Moreno and Matt Dolan believe the minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage. Says who?

Here’s what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to say about wages over 90 years ago:

“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living ...

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  Permitless carry means more gun violence

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Bowling Green State University recently published a study concerning a law passed in June 2022 that permits citizens to carry firearms in public without a license. In the year since, we are told, there was “a significant decrease in crime incidents involving a firearm” in Ohio’s eight most populous cities.

Gun zealots will surely herald this study as proof that relaxed gun restrictions pose no risk, and Attorney General Dave ...

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