Mo. Minimum Wage Established

Berger's Beat
November 8, 2013

http://bergersbeat.com/mo-minimum-wage-established/

The Missouri Dept. of Labor has established the minimum wage rate of $7.50 an hour effective Jan. 1. . .Kansas City Bishop (and St. Louis native) Robert Finn is apparently letting a priest who did 90 days in jail for theft work at a parish. Back in 2000, Fr. Glen Gardner, was convicted for stealing “thousands of dollars worth of antiques” from two Catholic churches, including “linen, candles, a pair of 3-foot-high altar candlesticks, and incense burner, two candelabra, a ciborium that holds communion wafers and a $9,000 monstrance that displays eucharistic bread.” Fr. Gardner is at St. Patrick’s Oratory and is part of the Institute of Christ the King – an ultra-conservative outfit with a church in our town. The institute was first welcomed to the U.S. by then-Bishop Raymond Burke of LaCrosse (who went on to head the St. Louis archdiocese and is now the highest-ranking U.S. prelate in the Vatican. . .Microsoft’s radical redefinition of home entertainment on the rise: voice control; an option to record game play and a camera that follows you during Skype conversations.