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<p>On February 19, U.S. President Barack Obama, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet in Toluca, Mexico. The meeting has the official title of the “North American Leaders Summit,” but it is more popularly known as the “Three Amigos” summit.</p>
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<p>For better or worse, if something happens in California please be assured it will soon come to a neighborhood theater near you. Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Pleasant Valley Sunday suburban sprawl, the car culture, LSD, and acid rock all launched or took hold in the Golden State.</p>
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<p>For the past year, people from across the country have come to see firsthand how dysfunctional Washington can come to be: Republicans forcing a government shutdown, failure to expand unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, and the their obsession with repealing Obamacare.</p>
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<p>As a small business owner myself, I don’t see the logic in business people arguing against increasing the minimum wage.</p>
<p>It’s just not logical to pay people a wage that doesn’t even cover basics like food, housing, utilities and transportation needed to get to work.</p>
<p>At $7.25 an hour, the minimum wage comes to just $15,080 a year for full-time employees. Think about cashiers or health aides, childcare workers or fast food servers trying to make ends meet on $15,080.</p>
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<p>This week is National School Choice Week. But is it occasion to celebrate or cause for caution?</p>