Add Massachusetts to the list of states considering the idea of increasing its cigar tax.
In a effort to plug a hole in the state’s budget shortfall, a Boston Globe editorial is calling for legislators to get behind Mass. Governor Deval Patrick’s proposed plan to raise cigar taxes from 30% to 110%. Although some say if [...]
On February 19, Craig Kelly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary with the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, “became the highest ranking U.S. official sent to Cuba by President Obama for immigration talks,” according to The New York Daily News.
One of the top reasons for the trip was to continue discussion of the Cuba-U.S. [...]
The Olympics are over, but people are still buzzing about the gold medal win celebration by the Canadian women’s hockey team. You know, the one where they were “swigging from bottles of champagne, guzzling beer and smoking cigars,” according to the Associated Press. Was what the hockey players did really that big of a [...]
Cuba’s economy is hurting badly, so much so that they are cutting back on food and agriculture imports from the U.S. “Crippling economic malaise” is how the Associated Press describes the situation down south.
Even though the U.S. is still the largest seller of food to Cuba, the communist nation is now turning to [...]
One of the biggest congressional supporters of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba has announced his retirement.
Republican Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of the largely Hispanic 21st District of Florida will not seek re-election. Diaz-Balart, who has held the seat since 1993, is one of the most senior and vocal supporters of the Cuban embargo.
Mario [...]
Early this year, Columbia, South Carolina’s City Council considered the idea of changing its smoking ban law so that cigar bars are exempt (retail tobacco stores ARE currently exempt, but not cigar bars that serve alcohol). Now, Lexington, it’s neighboring town 20 minutes to the west, is thinking about allowing bar and restaurant patrons [...]
