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» Minimum wage fight moves from Capitol Hill to state and local ballots

Labor Secretary Tom Perez said on a conference call last Friday that “President Obama has explicitly instructed us, and we’re doing that, to make sure we do everything in our power to help our state and local partners to enact minimum wage laws.”

» EPA ignores its own economic analyses, small business agency says

The letter noted that EPA had based its claim on two studies that didn’t back it up. One didn’t even directly address the issue at hand. “The first study is based on the ability of facilities to meet the current limits, not the proposed stricter limits,” the office said.

» Michael Barone: Hispanics seem to be souring on Obama Democrats

In the crosstabs of polls and in party strategists’ moves I see evidence that one group Democrats have been counting on is moving away from them: Hispanics.

» Emails shed light on DeMaio scandal

A staffer for California Republican House candidate Carl DeMaio remained in a high-level campaign position for a week after a plagiarism scandal broke, according to internal emails obtained by the Washington Examiner.

» Boehner: Obama should consider travel ban from Ebola countries

Boehner pointed out that scores of people have now been exposed to Ebola via the first patient from Liberia, Thomas Eric Duncan — who died last week — and the two health care workers to contracted the virus from Duncan.

» Editorial: President Lameduck’s attorney general

There is a clear and invidious pattern here: Obama holds back controversial decisions and damaging information until the formality of having the people decide is behind him.

» MANHATTAN MOMENT: On Obamacare’s second birthday, whither the HSA?

In a recent Manhattan Institute report, we found that HSAs, a tax-advantaged savings vehicle, can help consumers make smarter trade-offs by offering lower premiums — savings consumers can then pocket in interest-bearing accounts.

» Michele Bachmann: Campaign spending levels have gotten ‘bizarre and absurd’

The retiring House member from Minnesota says it’s time to consider limits, saying the levels of money raised and spent by candidates in recent elections have gotten out of whack.

»Op-ed: We need an Ebola czar

The global response — and more recently America’s response — to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been characterized by a lack of leadership and organization.

» FMCS paid senior official’s rent, meals, other living expenses for five years

The federal agency paid for a furnished apartment for Scot Beckenbaugh in D.C., which it said was cheaper than paying for a hotel room. And it paid for all of his meals, as if he were taking a business trip that lasted five straight years.