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33 min ago | Business Insurance

Wal-Mart endorses employer cover mandate

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.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Edward Kennedy, Democrat, Christopher Dodd, Bentonville, AR

Sat Jul 04, 2009

HolyCoast.com

Wal-Mart Supports Obamacare

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.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

AmSpec Blog

The Wal-Mart Sell-Out

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.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health

Des Moines Register

Wal-Mart support for mandate no 'victory'

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

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Health Insurance, Health, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Iowa

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Orange County Review

Planners endorse Walmart

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.

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MediLexicon

Wal-Mart Backs Employer Mandate On Insurance

"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.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Health Insurance, Health, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Arizona Republic

Walmart health care stance may alter debate

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Health Insurance, Health, Phoenix, AZ, Barack Obama, Retail, PETsMART, Pets

Wed Jul 01, 2009

KXMA-TV Dickinson

Rent-Seeking: Wal-Mart Announces Support For Obama's Health Care Plans

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.

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Related Topix: Health Insurance, Health

Prattville Progress

Man found guilty in Wal-Mart slaying

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

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Related Topix: Elmore County, AL

The Volokh Conspiracy

What Happens to the Walmart Effect

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.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

KansasCity.com

Wal-Mart backs employer health insurance mandate

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 ...

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, US News, Health Insurance, Health, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Hotel Online

Groundbreaking for convention center to take place Monday

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.

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Related Topix: Las Cruces, NM, New Mexico State University

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Brattleboro Reformer

Wal-Mart near Va. battlefield moves forward

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.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Lovely County Citizen

Artists can now 'put paint to canvas' as council agrees to Artery contract

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.

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Related Topix: Non-Profit

Thu Jun 25, 2009

St. Petersburg Times

New Florida growth law may limit Tarpon Springs' options for Wal-Mart deal

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

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Related Topix: Tarpon Springs, FL, Charlie Crist, US Governors, Opinion

Wed Jun 24, 2009

New York Daily News

Could curtain fall on Pedro's Albany circus act?

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.

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Related Topix: US News

Tue Jun 23, 2009

TELEPHONY Online

Mobile couponing goes mainstream

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.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

UPI

Woody won't adapt films for stage

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.

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Related Topix: Whatever Works, Crime Movies, Comedy Movies, Bullets Over Broadway, New York Government, New York

Mon Jun 22, 2009

SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

Challenge: Over 85? Prove you can still drive

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.

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Related Topix: Family, Elderly, Peabody, MA, Marblehead, MA, Massachusetts

Sat Jun 20, 2009

Fayetteville Free Weekly

Four Mill and New Convenience

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.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Fayetteville Metro, Fayetteville, AR, Washington County, AR, Springdale, AR

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