Tobacco Trust Funds Footbridge to Nowhere
RALEIGH — What do a $30,000 well-appointed restroom and an isolated footbridge that dead-ends in a marsh have to do with helping tobacco farmers transition to nontobacco sources of revenue? Not much, say critics of the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission’s priorities in a time of budget woes for the state. They think the funds should be redirected t more urgent projects
The World’s Richest Man’s New Mansion
If you stand on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and look across the street, you’ll have a small chance of glimpsing the world’s richest person. On Thursday Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, who is worth $53.5 billion, bought the Duke-Semans mansion, a beaux-arts townhouse directly across from the Met, for $44 million, public records show
Did Big Tobacco finally get burned?
WASHINGTON, – Hidden among the thousands of petitions the U.S. Supreme Court rejected before recessing for the summer was a case so spectacular — the case against Big Tobacco — you wonder why its outcome isn’t drawing more attention.
Electronic Cigarettes Require More Suction Than Conventional Brands
RIVERSIDE, Calif.
