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John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on state alcohol regulators renewing a contract with a vendor tied to a controversial 2018 audit. John Hood’s CJ Opinion labels the latest…
Bronson Stocking highlights at TownHall.com one pub owner’s response to COVID-19 lockdowns. It mimics a successful left-wing political tactic. A clever bar owner in New York City is borrowing a…
This week, Carolina Journal’s John Trump wrote an opinion piece on the challenges the alcohol industry frequently faces. Just this past year, Trump explains, distilleries were faced with a potential…
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…
Alcohol entrepreneurship in North Carolina isn’t limited to craft beer, wine, and liquor. Seventh in the nation in apple production, North Carolina is also seeing a growth in producers of…
When North Carolina places so many restrictions on distilleries trying to reach customers in their own state, it’s depriving them of their vital, natural consumer base.
A bill currently before the General Assembly, House Bill 995, would use the new federal definition of hard cider in order to tax it as beer instead of as unfortified…
The John Locke Foundation has released my follow-up report on the need to modernize and free up our alcoholic beverage control system. It opens with a tale of two North…
The Asheville Alcoholic Beverage Control Board’s warehouse is expanding from 18,000 to almost 26,000 sq. ft. On this blog, we have often stated booze sales and alcoholism tend to run…
Governor Pat signed an alcohol omnibus bill. The purpose of the legislation is to feed the egos of people who like to wield power by throwing arbitrary stipulations around. At…
North Carolina’s alcohol laws continue to slowly become more rational. The latest steps: bills are now before Gov. Pat McCrory that would allow “growlers” to be sold and refilled by…
Some members of the Cherokee tribal council believe the ABC Commissioners’ $25,000 salary is too high. Apparently, the council remains in the dark after inquiring two years ago into exactly…