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Free Speech Radio News lineup - Friday, January 13, 2006

WAL-MART TO PAY FOR HEALTH CARE Maryland has become the first state to to pass a bill requiring Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health care. Ryme Katkhouda has the story. In a veto reversal that was closely watched nationally, lawmakers in the Democrat-led General Assembly in Maryland voted largely along party lines to require private companies with more than 10,000 employees in Maryland to spend at least 8 percent of their payroll expenses on employee health benefits or to make a contribution to the state's insurance program for the poor. [SOUND...] Nu Wexler of Wal-Mart Watch says this is…