Joe Manchin plans to use nearly all the proceeds from securitizing the tobacco company money to pay off unfunded liabilities for various state programs. But proposals that in the long run would merely shift the tax burden sound less appealing. They wonder whether, at some point, those payments from tobacco companies will dry up in coming years. Like most people, we think tax relief has a nice ring to it. Ohio is among many states scheduled to receive payments from tobacco companies as a...

The Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs - the government's two major sources of income -fell short of their respective goals, blaming their misfortune on a host of things that included the peso's strength, frontloading of liquor and tobacco production, etc. The Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs - the government's two major sources of income -fell short of their respective goals, blaming their misfortune on a host of things that included the peso's...

Within three decades, under pressure from a more vibrant tobacco crop, competing markets and large corporate farms, the bean market closed. By about 1998, when a retired teacher and coach named Gene Moore peered inside what once was the region's agricultural and economic hub, the building had started to rot away. LAKE CITY Starting in the late 1930s, trucks and mule-pulled wagons lined up for miles outside the Lake City market that housed one of the world's largest auctions for string...

But if you want the whole story of the white man in America - the full-tilt frenzy of near-starvation and cannibalism, salvation through entrepreneurial enterprise, importing slavery, overrunning Indians and the nation's first step toward representative democracy - then come to Jamestown. But if you want the whole story of the white man in America - the full-tilt frenzy of near-starvation and cannibalism, salvation through entrepreneurial enterprise, importing slavery, overrunning Indians...

By about 1998, when a retired teacher and coach named Gene Moore peered inside what once was the region's agricultural and economic hub, the building had started to rot away. Starting in the late 1930s, trucks and mule-pulled wagons lined up for miles outside the Lake City market that housed one of the world's largest auctions for string beans. Within three decades, under pressure from a more vibrant tobacco crop, competing markets and large corporate farms, the bean market closed. People...