"Government shouldn't pick winners and losers."
Published: Thursday, May 11th, 2017 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Chuck McGrady, R, Henderson, tried hard to smile this week while presenting the plundered remnants of House Bill 500.
Published: Thursday, May 4th, 2017 @ 3:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An effort to raise the number of barrels North Carolina's craft brewers can produce before they have to procure a distributor has failed
Published: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 @ 4:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While 49 other states are scratching their heads figuring out how to promote manufacturing jobs, North Carolina's General Assembly's lack of action on prohibition-era laws may actually be destroying manufacturing growth, turning down the opportunity of a lifetime
Published: Monday, April 24th, 2017 @ 8:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Craft beer is on tap at the state legislature, where lawmakers have introduced three bills to roll back laws that stifle unprecedented growth in the brewing industry
Published: Sunday, April 23rd, 2017 @ 1:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It would be hard to find a more blatant example of cronyism than the North Carolina law forbidding brewers who produce more than 25,000 barrels per year from selling their products directly to retailers
Published: Friday, April 21st, 2017 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's craft brewers want a fair system
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While some of North Carolina's craft breweries are gearing up for a 2017 legislative fight related to the distribution of their beer, Raleigh's Lucas Smith is developing a documentary to tell the story of how some of the state's beers get from the brewery to the taproom
Published: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 @ 12:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is not the only state in which mom-and-pop alcohol producers are seeking a break from restrictions on their ability to market their products
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2016 @ 7:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some North Carolina craft breweries plan to ask the General Assembly next year to change a state law they say is stunting their growth, but there's little indication the association representing large beer wholesalers will cede any of their control over the state's beer distribution
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 12:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Don't you just love it when politicians who know NOTHING about a subject try to lecture people who DO KNOW something about a subject? Law enforcement and military folks get more than their fair share of it. And so do businesspeople.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Thom Tillis and Harold Brubaker have quite a special political bond. They are the only two Republican speakers of the North Carolina House since Reconstruction.
Published: Monday, February 17th, 2014 @ 12:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In September, craft brewers and beer distributors were knocking heads over state regulations some viewed as favoring the interests of large beer distributors over these small brewers.
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2014 @ 7:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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