Employee Allison Hennessy asked every customer at Bully's Liquor last week to sign her petition asking Gov. Rick Scott to veto a bill allowing the sale of spirits in grocery stores.
It was the voters of Boulder who approved the nation's steepest sugary drink tax in November, but only the city has the power to implement it.
In Texas, as in much of the nation, alcohol is regulated under the so-called "three-tier system," which requires alcohol manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to be separate and independent from each other.
Legislation introduced Tuesday to permit independent liquor stores to amass more than twice as many licenses as last year's landmark compromise allows has groups representing smaller merchants warning the move will devastate Colorado's mom-and-pop retail landscape, but the bill's sponsors and supporters say it's simply an attempt to level the playing field.
A heavily lobbied measure that would remove a Depression-era "wall" separating the sale of liquor and groceries was positioned — after more than two hours of discussion Tuesday — for a final House vote as soon as Wednesday.
Wisconsin law enforcement officials are turning to the state legislature for help to prohibit adults from hosting underage drinking parties, after a court ruling made 54 local government prohibitions unenforceable.
On October 26, 2016, the Wisconsin Appeals Court ruled a social hosting ordinance in Fond du Lac County could not apply to a high school graduation party at a home where adults allowed other people's underage children to drink alcohol, because it was not consistent with state law.
Martin Dean Dupalo has owned a home in the east valley since 1980 and said he isn't opposed to growth, but he has grown increasingly frustrated with the direction it has taken. He partly blames a substance that's found in spades in Sin City.
"As more liquor stores and other places people could get packaged liquor came to the neighborhood, I started seeing more drunk drivers," Dupalo said. "They leave literal scars in my neighborhood, in the form of broken walls and smashed cars that drunk drivers have crashed into."
ALBANY, N.Y. - In New York, legislators are again set to debate whether alcoholic beverages should be served in movie theaters, after previous attempts at formal legislation fell apart during state budget negotiations.
In the space of two years, the beverage industry has started tapping into several markets that had been bone-dry for generations.
Lawmakers completed a temporary rewrite of the state's alcohol carryout laws to address a convenience store that found a legal work-around.