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Today we turn our attention to the Pacific Northwest/Mountain West/some other regional designator that I’m not aware of and will probably get remedial emails about, where The Little Liquor Store That Could is poised to secure a legislative leg-up on a state control board. Is this a charming tale of how rural resilience and community support can blunt banal, grinding bureaucracy, or another hypocritical chapter in the oh-so-American book of “monopoly for me, but not for thee?”
Or both? Or neither! Anyway, let’s have a look.