Tobacco
Bill would treat e-cigarettes like other tobacco
California would treat electronic cigarettes like any other tobacco product by restricting where people can use them in public under a bill approved by the state Senate on Friday. Some of the vapors or nicotine emitted by the e-cigarettes may pose health risks, said Sen. Ellen Corbett, D-Hayward. Her SB648 ...
Minn. session '13: What got done, what didn't
Minnesota state lawmakers promised when the legislative session began that their top priority was setting a new state budget. To that end, they produced a $38.3 billion two-year spending plan that hikes taxes on top income earners and on cigarettes, and distributes hefty spending increases to public schools, freezes tuition ...
Senate votes to make small cut to food stamps
The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut — or roughly a half of 1 percent — to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill. Food stamps now cost almost $80 billion annually and are used by 1 in 7 Americans. The ...
NH Senate panel rejects cigarette tax hike
On the eve of a House vote on casino gambling, the Senate's budget committee voted Tuesday not to accept a House-proposed 20-cent cigarette tax hike and delays in several business tax credits worth a total of $53 million in revenue. The Republican-controlled Finance Committee voted 4-2 on the proposals with ...
White House says more farm subsidy cuts needed
The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving through the Senate this week. The bill would cost almost $100 billion a year over five years and would set policy for farm programs and food aid. The legislation would ...
NY cigarette tax probes called weak, sloppy
Sting operations aimed at black market cigarettes in New York had such weak investigative protocols and financial controls that money went missing and prosecutions were dismissed, the state inspector general reported Monday. In one case, the Department of Taxation and Finance couldn't account for $160,000 of lost cash from covert ...
Exhibit on US Jews who helped refugees from Nazis
An exhibition opens Tuesday at a museum in Lower Manhattan about efforts by American Jews to bring refugees to the U.S. from Europe during the Nazi era. The exhibition, "Against All Odds: American Jews and the Rescue of Europe's Refugees, 1933-41" will be on view for a year at the ...
Del. police arrest suspect in reputed smuggling
A man arrested in Delaware as part of the takedown of an alleged East Coast cigarette smuggling ring that may have funneled money to terrorist groups is being held on $12.5 million cash bail. State police arrested Adel Abuzahrieh, 47, of Staten Island, N.Y., on Wednesday after a traffic stop ...
Social media rules given for adult beverage makers
Wine, beer and spirits makers that use social media to promote beverages must abide by new federal guidelines governing the practice. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/13AbEUi ) that the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's new guidelines say companies selling adult beverages are subject to advertising rules ...
Minnesota news in brief at 7:58 p.m. CDT
2 Minnesota women sentenced in Somali terror case MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two Minnesota women convicted of conspiring to send money to al-Shabab in Somalia were given prison sentences in federal court Thursday, ending a week of punishments tied to long-running investigations into terrorism recruiting and financing for the terrorist group. ...
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