Showing posts with label Other states. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Other states. Show all posts
Monday, August 19, 2019

The Difference is What They Steal From You

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I did a short post on this for the " Abolish the PLCB -- Rewrite the Code! " Facebook group . If you missed it there (...
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Friday, August 9, 2019

What could Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas mean to Pennsylvania?

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I am not a lawyer,  and some or all of my thoughts could be right or wrong , so maybe this post should be filed under wishful thinking , but...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Don't We Deserve a Better Board?

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If we have to play by the PLCB rules ...could we at least get a better set of players? Back in 2015 in the Annual Report (page 2), the vi...
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Monday, April 1, 2019

PLCB - 85 Years to Get It Moving in the Right Direction and They Still Fail

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Those of us who have put up with the restricted system of alcohol access in Pennsylvania would expect to see some results from the 85 years ...
Monday, March 25, 2019

And the winner is...Everybody but Pennsylvania.

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Nice to know that the second largest wine retailer in the U.S.  (at the moment) only influences a captive monopoly citizenry and nothing els...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Let's talk New Jersey just a bit

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This is a blog about Pennsylvania's drinking problem -- the PLCB. But sometimes we look at how other states do it, either to see how it...
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Oregon: the 2nd highest liquor taxes in America! Or are they?

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Today we are going to look at Oregon , home of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC), and generally considered to have the second-hig...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Led, managed and staffed by incompetents

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Pretty rough title isn't it? Sure, I'll admit it is... unless you can prove it. Let's keep looking at the "improved produ...
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Monday, October 31, 2016

PA Democrats need to go to Iowa

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When you're talking about getting a bottle of booze, and the words "freedom," "consumer choice," "s...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Apples to Apples

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Philadelphia is a city of 1,550,000 people, with a metro area population of a hair over 6,000,000, making it the 7th largest in the countr...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Success and Failure

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Quiz time boys and girls!  We are going to look at how to do things, and how to do things right . A tale of two (or more) control states. ...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Meanwhile, in Saskatchewan...

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How long has booze privatization been debated and promised in Pennsylvania? Decades. How much has been done about booze privatization in Pe...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

Quick, Clean Up Those Liquor Laws: The Neighbors Are Visiting!

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5-20-2016: This piece has been updated after a full reading of the bill as released by Sen. McIlhinney's committee and subsequently swif...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

How PLCB buying power incompetence has cost you and me Billions

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In my last post,  PLCB "Buying Power" A Myth , (which you really should read first), I told you how for the past eighty-plus years...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

State Line = State of Mind

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Not too far south of the Mason-Dixon Line is an odd little Pennsylvania-like anomaly within Maryland: the Montgomery County Department of Li...
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Monday, December 14, 2015

How to lie like Wendell Young IV

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We like to take UFCW Local 1776 president-for-life Wendell W. "The Haircut" Young IV to task for bending, breaking, and shatteri...
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