Liquor reform bill introduced

With just a few weeks left of the 2011 Legislative Session, liquor reforms are taking front and center in the budget debate. The House budget assumes $300 million in new revenue by entering into a public-private partnership for the running of the state's liquor warehouse. Here are some of the still evolving details on that proposal. Today Senators Tom, Sheldon, Hobbs, Ericksen and Litzow introduced SB 5933 to privatize the state's prohibition era liquor monopoly . . . READ MORE