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Q13 FOX Debate over state’s beer tax hike coming to a head? Breweries and distributors are lobbying lawmakers to let the state’s temporary beer tax increase expire on July 1, as scheduled, and not adopt a proposal to extend the tax and expand it to even the smallest brewers. Ballard News Tribune Bill passed in House to allow wine, beer samples at farmers markets Q13 Fox Initiative legalizing pot passes; supporters light up SEATTLE—Washington state Initiative 502, a measure legalizing marijuana for adults, passed Tuesday night. The Seattle Times Washington state voters made history Tuesday by legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. The Olympian Washington voters made their state the first in the nation to legalize recreational pot use, setting up a showdown with a federal government that backs the drug’s prohibition. Video on liquor privatization A video that covers many of the negative consequences of liquor privatization in Washington was shown before the October 19 Reduced Under Age Drinking (RUAD) meeting. Here is a link to that video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QE8j8CPdcE. The video is 12 minutes long. At about the 7 minute mark the issues of theft and underage access to liquor are covered. KIMA Yakima Too many booze signs are an eyesore and against state liquor laws YAKIMA, Wash. — They stick out like a sore thumb. Colorful, over-sized signs for booze. It seems like most people have accepted that they just come with the territory at mini marts and gas stations. State lawmakers explore ending monopoly on liquor sales HUNTSVILLE, Ala.- State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) is drafting legislation that would close down the retail division of the Alabama Alcohol Beverage Control board, potentially saving taxpayers up to $50 million per year while also ending a monopoly that goes back to the Prohibition era. Kitsap Sun Kitsap Sun Upscale brewery planned for Bethel Corridor PORT ORCHARD — Don Ryan is at it again. The Port Orchard investor who envisions a Pike Place-style market in downtown is pulling together plans for an upscale brewery and restaurant in the spirit of Silver City Brewery.”>Upscale brewery planned for Bethel Corridor PORT ORCHARD — Don Ryan is at it again. The Port Orchard investor who envisions a Pike Place-style market in downtown is pulling together plans for an upscale brewery and restaurant in the spirit of Silver City Brewery. The Olympian Washington’s pot-legalization battle creates odd bedfellows It’s not surprising that Jim Johnston is passionate about this year’s campaign for Initiative 502, the proposal to legalize marijuana. The News Tribune Federal reaction big unknown in legal marijuana question In the waning days of a campaign to legalize marijuana in California two years ago, all nine ex-directors of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration simultaneously urged White House officials to come out in strong opposition. KREM Local liquor stores specialize booze, hire former state employees SPOKANE– Almost four months after liquor sales went private in Washington State, people are still adjusting. Feel free to skip this post and read the preceding ones – they have helpful information for you. This is mainly a post to help folks find us in an organic search on the web… If you are looking to obtain your Alcohol Server Permit is Washington State, here are some of the ways students get to us in an organic search. Washington State passed a law in 1995 requiring all folks employed in the food and beverage industry in Washington State to have an alcohol license to serve intoxicating beverages to the public. ALES has been providing that alcohol server training and alcohol server education in Washington State since that legislation passed in 1995. We have had an alcohol training class weekly in Seattle, Vancouver, Olympia, Spokane, Chehalis/Centrailia, Everett and everywhere in between ! We have striven to make our alcohol class approachable, convenient, and painless. We realize it is a mandatory training and that folks need it in order to have a job and work at their job legally. So we, for over 15 years, have diligently provided the clearest and most concise route to receiving your alcohol training and your alcohol server education to obtain your Mandatory Alcohol Server Training (MAST) Permit. We are the happy folks, the ones who have spent years in the front of the house, behind the house and behind the wood. We are pro business and pro server. The Bellingham Herald Young winery turns Olympic Peninsula town into Little Italy Though he grew up far from wine country, David Volmut always had an idea that the passion he was born with would lead him to a better life. The Seattle PI “A concern I’ve had for quite a few years has been the personal verbal attacks made by some advocates on other advocates who do not share the means to get to a common goal,” Kohn-Wells said. The Columbian In Our View: Privatization still in its infancy As we move more than two and a half months into the privatization of liquor sales and distribution, Washingtonians understandably wonder: How’s it going? |
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