Legislation to require the Department of Defense to decontaminate and remove military munition debris from the Northwest Peninsula of Culebra is poised to become federal… Read More »Culebra Cleanup Remedy On Track to Become Law
A senior U.S. senator identified closing the tax loophole that enabled Microsoft to avoid $4.5 billion in Federal income taxes 2009-11 by attributing up to… Read More »Senior US Senator: Close Puerto Rico Tax Loophole
Healthcare insurance companies in Puerto Rico were recently forced to pay a Federal tax levied by the 2010 Federal healthcare reform known as ‘Obamacare.’ The… Read More »New Fed Tax Disproves ‘Commonwealth Tax Autonomy’
Puerto Rico’s historians estimate that Christopher Columbus landed in Puerto Rico roughly November 19th, 1493, on his second voyage to the New World. But where… Read More »A New Debate over Columbus
Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi met earlier this week with the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, to discuss the Coast… Read More »Pierluisi Credits New Federal Resources in Reducing Homicide Rate
The government of Puerto Rico is planning to open an office in Peru designed to encourage trade and cultural exchange between the Latin American country… Read More »Puerto Rico to Open Government Office in Peru
We looked at social media mentions of the status of Puerto Rico before the elections and found that, of the three status options most often… Read More »Listening in on Puerto Rico and Midterm Elections
Contrary to an order by the Constitutional Court of Spain, more than 2 million Catalans voted on Sunday in a regional referendum for independence. The outcome,… Read More »Lessons on Independence from Catalonia
The Brookings Institution held a panel discussion yesterday on the debt crisis in Puerto Rico at which experts spoke on the economic problems facing Puerto Rico… Read More »Experts discuss Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis, Possible U.S. Role
