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A "shop local" liquor loophole

A "shop local" liquor loophole

Plus: Craft brewing’s ‘white dudes with beards’ dilemma!

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Dave Infante
Apr 03, 2024
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Editor’s note: Hello and welcome to Lobby Time, Fingers’ weekly overview of booze-related legislative moves around the country, published exclusively for paid subscribers. If you haven’t yet, buy a subscription now to read this and all my coverage. Also, sorry this edition is a day late, I threw out my back earlier this week. Not sweet, do not recommend.—Dave.


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.

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