Regulation
Bourbon in Your Mailbox
Jarrett Dieterle writes at National Review Online about the nation’s convoluted alcohol restrictions. Americans can be forgiven for being confused. In many places, you can now get a margarita delivered…
Ethanol
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…
Education
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Gov. Roy Cooper and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest appear at this date to be the most likely candidates to square off in North Carolina’s 2020 gubernatorial election. Rick Henderson analyzes…
Regulation
CJ Reports: Despite disappointments on alcohol reform, lawmaker says, ‘We’re winning the battle’
Carolina Journal Editor John Trump in his most recent article writes: N.C. lawmakers, one could argue, have had unprecedented success this legislative session in reforming the state’s archaic laws governing…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Modernizing our ABC system
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…
Regulation
Daily Journal: Momentum builds toward ABC reforms, but don’t get cocky
Carolina Journal‘s John Trump writes for Daily Journal: Lawmakers this session have filed what amounts to a jumble of bills designed to ease restrictive Prohibition-era rules enacted in the first…
Regulation
CJ reports: Latest bills to reform N.C. liquor laws would benefit state’s craft distilleries
Carolina Journal‘s John Trump reports: The stack of bills from N.C. lawmakers looking to reform and modernize the state’s 80-year-old liquor laws is growing. In the Senate, lawmakers filed Senate…
Regulation
Oh give me a home where … distilleries compete
Holiday travel last month took me through the Southeast U.S. into Texas. I joked at the time that I was touring the Land Where Gas Is Below Two Dollars. I…
Health Care
New Carolina Journal Online features
Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal Online that N.C. state employees and medical providers have different reactions to the state treasurer’s proposed health plan reforms. John Trump’s Daily Journal urges…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Carolina Journal: Virginia is a control state, but its model is friendly to that state’s distillers
John Trump writes for Carolina Journal’s Daily Journal: For North Carolina’s distillers, getting their products into ABC stores is arduous and time-consuming. Distillers must first check all the boxes pertinent…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on the first bills filed in the new N.C. legislative session. Kari Travis reports on different education priorities for Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper…
Regulation
Stories keep mentioning North Carolina’s weird alcohol regulations
Bourbon blogger Michael R. Veach visited The Crunkleton bar in Chapel Hill and opened his review with this: North Carolina is a control state, meaning the state government controls alcohol sales…