Don't raise the minimum wage

Although popular, increase would hurt business growth

By Joe Herro

The U.S. government has come a long way from maintaining a structure of law and order in which people, subject to the forces of a competitive marketplace, can pursue their own self-interest and happiness. Since the Great Depression, the interpretation of the Constitution and an unchecked outlook by politicians toward the role of official policy in domestic affairs has resulted in a large growth in government.

Spectator editorial: Border Battle

Minnesota shouldn't blame Wisconsin for tuition differences

For decades, students from Minnesota and Wisconsin have had the luxury of paying in-state tuition to go to the school of their choice in either state. However, Minnesota has recently voiced displeasure and has gone so far as to threaten pulling out of this reciprocity agreement because Wisconsin students going to University of Minnesota schools are paying lower tuition than students in-state at the same school, according to an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Closed doors have swung wide open

People's obsession with "reality" has led to voyeuristic tendencies with technology

By Kathlyn Hotynski

If President Kennedy was assassinated today, just imagine the YouTube footage. Conspiracy theorists would undoubtedly have a dozen grainy camera-phone videos of the shooting to pore over, some from an angle the news cameras missed. Maybe they would have pieced together a more solid explanation.