Odds and ends

• The early signs are good for this year’s sugar harvest, Reuters reports.

• Dallas Morning News: The Dallas/Fort Worth airport is interested in having flights to Cuba and is talking to federal officials about it.

• At Babalu, a reasonable question about why Juanes really canceled his Miami concert.

• The Herald looks at efforts by the Florida delegation to stop Cuba’s offshore oil exploration. In the article, our friend Mauricio Claver-Carone notes that Cuba has no refining capacity; if he ever goes to Cuba can someone please point out to him that ugly smokestack across the bay in Havana, or the big building in Cienfuegos, or the little one in Cabaiguan…