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.
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.