Our Wilmington bloggers and the Star-News have been providing plenty of fodder from the New Hanover County ABC Board pay problems. Mecklenburg’s ABC officials benefited from an ethically questionable $9,000 steak dinner – must have been Matsusaka beef.

Now state ABC chief Jonathan S. Williams joins the NCGA’s Program Evaluation Division to call for modernization of the state liquor monopoly.

The best way to modernize an unnecessary state-run monopoly is to end it.