Agriculture
Alcohol Policy
Introduction North Carolina was once the nation’s leader in wine production and distilleries, legal industries killed off by state prohibition in 1908. In 1937, in response to the end of…
Alcoholic beverage control state
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
A Toast to Expanding Alcohol Freedom in North Carolina
With House Bill 890 becoming law, the General Assembly continues its good work in recent years expanding alcohol freedom in North Carolina. More freedoms for North Carolina's distilleries are especially…
Regulation
Expand Our Freedoms to Imbibe
This morning the North Carolina Senate Committee on Commerce and Insurance will hear a bill that would expand some freedoms for the otherwise shackled, state-run, and happy hour-less, liquor industry.…
Regulation
New Carolina Journal Online Features
John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on challenges for North Carolina’s private liquor business. Joshua Peters’ CJ Opinion laments the rise of the “woke zealot” and anti-truth.
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Sample Some of NC’s House Blend of Alcohol Restrictions
It's not just that North Carolina has a bewildering maze of an Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) system. As the brief points out, the state has its own unique set of…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Lines At ABC Stores Unveil Weakness In NC’s ABC System
The Coronavirus has many people rushing to grocery stores and other establishments and stocking up for what could be weeks or even months of quarantine. One of the establishments getting…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The wild card in modernizing liquor sales in NC
How do we get around artificial problems created by a needlessly complex state/local government hybrid system set up to control alcohol sales that, after the fact, became attractive to state…
Research Brief
Regulation
What’s keeping us from finally modernizing liquor sales in NC?
A January 27 article in the News & Observer announced that a bill to make North Carolina a license state for selling liquor is unlikely to receive a vote this…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Becki Gray Comments on ABC Privatization on After Spin!
This week, an installment of NCSPIN’s “After SPIN!” featured JLF’s Becki Gray. Becki spoke with the show’s host, Tom Campbell, and president of Raleigh-based consulting firm Campaign Connections, Brad Crone,…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
CJ Commentary: N.C. sells liquor through 170 independent, political boards: What could go wrong?
On Friday, Carolina Journal’s John Trump published an opinion piece on North Carolina’s government-run liquor business. Trump explains Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, has sponsored legislation in the General Assembly that…
Regulation
Yes, we can have more alcohol freedom in NC
Now that Senate Bill 290 and House Bill 363 have both passed and become law, I thought it timely to update the "What we can't have in NC" chart from…
Regulation
There IS a bill to modernize and adopt a license system for liquor in NC
In two reports this year, the John Locke Foundation has made the case for modernizing and adopting a license model for liquor sales in North Carolina. That's the kind of…