Comptroller Peter Franchot unveiled a new task force recently to review the laws that govern Maryland's alcohol industry. Franchot announced the Reform on Tap" task force while visiting the Attaboy Beer, which opened in January in Frederick. It comes after the General Assembly passed a brewery bill this session."
he Nebraska Liquor Control Commission voted Wednesday to deny the renewal of licenses to four stores in Whiteclay. The stores sold three-and-a-half million cans of beer last year alone. The town borders the Pine Ridge Reservation that is plagued with alcoholism.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee House has put off a vote on a bill that would allow two Nashville bars to serve alcohol for 23 hours a day.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana law allows someone to walk out of a convenience store and crack open a beer purchased there, but it can't be a cold one.
JEFFERSON CITY — Powdered alcohol's potential to harm young Missourians inspired a state lawmaker to amend her quest to ban dehydrated booze.
LINCOLN, NEB. - Four Nebraska stores that sell millions of cans of beer each year near a South Dakota Indian reservation lost their liquor licenses Wednesday amid complaints that they fuel alcohol-related problems among members of the Oglala Lakota Tribe.
Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to ban open alcohol bottles or cans in vehicles traveling on Tennessee roads has failed for the year.
The bill allows grocery stores to sell beer with up to 6-percent alcohol (up from 3.2 percent) but no wine or liquor.
OKLAHOMA CITY - The State House of Representatives Monday passed two bills that would allow Oklahomans to buy liquor two hours earlier six days a week, and to be able to buy it Sundays.
New marijuana legislation introduced in Ottawa last week could end up costing provinces some serious cash, says Manitoba's justice minister.