Former governor supports ballot measure to raise minimum wage

I have worked for hourly wages and also for many years operated restaurants paying hourly wages. During college and around and about my service in the Army, including a tour in Vietnam, I worked as a roughneck on oil rigs throughout the west. After graduation in 1968 I roughnecked in California for the “high” wage of some $3.50 an hour before the new oil discovery in Prudhoe Bay enticed me to move to Alaska.

There I found employment roughnecking on the North Slope for the even higher wage of about $4.50 an hour until I decided to try my hand in business.

I started up Grizzly Burger in Anchorag...