May 15, 2018
Southwest Farm Press, Tiffany Dowell Lashmet, May 14, 2018- In recent weeks, the big buzz in agricultural law was a verdict in North Carolina, finding a Smithfield Foods subsidiary liable for nuisance and awarding $50 million in damages to neighboring landowners. Today, we will take a look at that case, …
May 7, 2018
The Norman Transcript, Mack Burke, May 7, 2018- With a 92 percent participation rate, Norman is already the top recycling city in the state, but Ward 6 council member Breea Clark believes Norman can blaze a new environmental trail by becoming the first city in Oklahoma to take an active …
May 2, 2018
PennLive, Jan Murphy, May 1, 2018- Legislation that aims to put a stop to municipalities imposing a tax on food and beverages and food/beverage containers as a revenue source won approval of the House Commerce Committee on Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mark Mustio, R-Allegheny County, passed the committee by a mostly …
May 1, 2018
Center For Media and Democracy, Mary Bottari, April 30, 2018- You wouldn’t watch your kid gobble up nine teaspoons of sugar a day would you? Well that is what she is getting if she is downing a can of Coke each day. And that is not all she is getting. One …
April 18, 2018
Philly Voice, Michael Tanenbaum, April 14, 2018- A Republican Pennsylvania lawmaker introduced a bill this week that would render Philadelphia’s controversial soda tax invalid. State Rep. Mark Mustio (R-Allegheny) proposed the soda-tax preemption legislation in an effort to ban local jurisdictions from imposing taxes on food, beverages or containers for either. Only …