Tuesday Links

• Almost 40,000 of Iowa's lowest-paid workers get a raise Sunday, when the state's minimum wage increases from $5.15 to $6.20 an hour, the first of two bumps. The second increase on Jan. 1, 2008, will go to $7.25 an hour.

• Governor Charlie Crist said Monday that he hoped to persuade members of the Florida cabinet this week to end the practice of stripping convicted felons of their right to vote.
  Florida is one of three states whose constitutions require withdrawal of voting rights from all convicted felons, the other two being Kentucky and Virginia.

• Lawmakers urge Bush to fire NASA official.