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Seems like quite the load has hit my level of interest this week. Here we go:

The Senate approved a bill that would increase the minimum wage in Massachusetts. Currently, it is at $6.75 per hour. By September 1st of this year, it would increase to $7.50, and by September 1st of 2007, it would increase to $8.25. Just like everything else that exists in this world, there is a good side and a bad side to this. The good is obvious: we’re guaranteed higher pay. The bad is that businesses, especially small businesses, will have to pay more for their workers, which could lead them to hire less people (and have those people do more work) or raise the price of their products. The Boston.com article refers to New Hampshire having a much lower minimum wage and therefore being more competitive with their products because they can charge less for them. You can go ahead and read up on all that…

That gas tax repeal thing that Kerry Healey suggested was shot down. As much as it would’ve been a temporary relief, seeing gas go down by 21 cents for even a day would be nice. They need to make some sort of law that freezes the price of gas at $3.00, then bring it down slowly. I seriously doubt that these gas companies are raising prices to combat financial losses of any sort. Concerning oil, I wish they also just drilled for oil in Alaska. If it could lower the price of oil AND lower our dependence on foreign oil, I’d go for it. It’s a weird issue, though, since it would only serve as a temporary solution.

From CNN: The Senate approved a bill that would ban protests within 300 feet to the entrance of a cemetery and 150 feet of a road into the cemetery, during the duration of 60 minutes before to 60 minutes after a funeral. Violators of this could be faced with up to an $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison. The act is called the “Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act”. CNN posted a picture of the guy that held the “Thank God for dead soldiers” sign. I think that this act is a good idea, and the fact that it came without any senator against it shows how good of an idea it was. We don’t need anti-gays saying that they’re thankful that someone is DEAD. Dead, I say. When someone’s dead, you let them rest. You don’t protest them. I think that protesting against someone who has died, during their funeral, is the most inhumane and rude thing you could do. If you really don’t like the person, how about you just not attend the funeral at all? That works a lot better and is much more dignified.

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