Otter Tail, Minn. Bans Smoking on County Property
Smoking will be banned in and on all Otter Tail County property come 2014. Last week, the county approved a measure that bans smoking around…
Minnesota Raises Cigar Tax, Adds Cap
A state with some of the highest taxes on cigars is getting a tax hike, and at least one retailer is calling it a victory….
Weekly News (May 27, 2013)
Editor’s Note: I’ve never made these columns about my personal life. Many others do it in their blogs—most notably Jerry Cruz, who does it better…
Weekly News (January 31, 2011)
Can he do it? Will he do it…? Yepp, another week, another Viaje LE announcement. Nope, I’m not kidding. It marks the seventh sixth (I…
Editorial: Minneapolis Smoking Ban
Minnesota passed the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act in 1975. Fast forward pretty much thirty years. In 2005, St. Paul’s City Councilman Dave Thune proposed a smoking ban and two years later it passed. In the time in between, Minneapolis and a host of other cities passed smoking bans. This led state lawmakers to pass the Freedom to Breathe Act in 2007 amending the 1975 legislation by placing much more restrictions on the consumption and sales of tobacco products. There are two main contentions of the act being debated, the use of “sampling” and where smoking is allowed. The Freedom to Breathe Act does not limit smoking in the following areas:
