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While a major change in position, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s endorsement last week of an employer health care coverage mandate is unlikely to have much effect on whether federal lawmakers include a mandate as part of reform legislation, lobbyists and others say.

And the guys at Say Anything probably know why: Believe you me, Wal-Mart isna t doing this out of concern for the proverbial poor, down-trodden masses.

Wal-Mart once was seen as a conservative, values-driven company. Unfortunately, it has become a profiteeering rent-seeker, backing a federal employer mandate for health insurance as a means to hobble its competition.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recently told the White House it supports requiring employers to provide health insurance for workers.

Thursday night the Orange County Planning Commission, with a 5 to 4 vote, recommended supervisors approve a special use permit which would allow a 138,000-square-foot Walmart supercenter to be built near the intersection of Route 3 and Route 20.

"In a major break with most other large companies, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Tuesday told the White House that it supports requiring employers to provide health insurance to workers, a centerpiece of President Barack Obama's effort to provide near-universal coverage to Americans," The Wall Street Journal reports.

The support of mandated employer health coverage by Walmart could change the debate over health-care reform in Arizona and the United States.

Jun 30 2009 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php Believe you me, Wal-Mart isn't doing this out of concern for the proverbial poor, down-trodden masses.

This photo of Calvin McMillan, 20, of Opelika was pres ented as evidence by the prosecution during his capital murder trial last week.

And particularly to consumers at the lower end of the economic scale. The Walmart Effect was partly Walmart stores themselves, but also the knock-on effects on the competition.

Wal-Mart is the latest in a line of traditionally Republican-leaning businesses to embrace key portions of President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul health care, a trend that could complicate opponents' efforts to build a united front when Congress ramps up its work on the issue this summer.Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, on Tuesday ...

Jun. 25--LAS CRUCES -- Nobody remembers exactly when the idea of a convention center was first publicly floated -- perhaps sometime in the mid- to late 1970s -- but it's now evolved from concept to reality.

Actor Robert Duval, filmmaker Ken Burns and some of the nation's most esteemed historians have defended a Civil War battlefield against Wal-Mart's plans to build a Supercenter near its boundaries.

The Artery is a go. "The world has been watching our little hamlet," said Artery creator Charlotte Buchanan, referring to recent press including stories on Fox News and AOL online.

One example of the damage inflicted on local government authority by Senate Bill 360, the pro-growth bill signed into law by Gov.

Senator Pedro Espada in the midst of the media circus of his creation. I dunno about you, but we're plum tuckered out over all this Albany tsuris.

Mobile couponing is one form of mobile advertising that is resonating with consumers, brands - if not carriers yet Even as mobile advertising struggles to gain acceptance amongst carriers, brands and consumers, the mobile phone is quickly becoming a replacement for the 300 billion paper coupons issued every year in the United States.

Woody Allen says he's not opposed to Broadway stage musical adaptations of his films, but insists he has no interest in writing or even seeing them.

A series of accidents involving elderly drivers, tragically culminating in the death of a 4-year-old girl in Stoughton over the weekend, has prompted several North Shore legislators to throw their support behind a bill that would require mandatory testing at 85.

Who actually knew that the Wal-Mart Shareholders hooplah, aka the Wal-Mart Shareholders meeting that happened earlier this month in NWA, would bring in $4 million in revenue to the City of Fayetteville and the local A&P budget? Marilyn Heifner, the head of the citya s A&P Commission, thata s who.