The North Carolina House passed H.B. 768, the 2022 ABC Omnibus, by a vote of 100-9 Wednesday afternoon.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 8:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
Two new N.C. Supreme Court decisions set a 40-year maximum prison sentence for violent juvenile offenders, regardless of the number or severity of their crimes.
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2022 @ 3:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
The House of Representatives faced backlash late this week over a plan to use taxpayer money to give staffers in Washington, D.C., and in district offices across the country, free Peloton memberships while the American people feel the pain of soaring inflation rates.
Published: Monday, May 16th, 2022 @ 11:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
At taxpayer expense
Published: Saturday, May 14th, 2022 @ 10:27 am
By: Countrygirl1411
|
Just days after making an accurate, fact-based claim that MAGA was "the most extreme political organization in recent American history," President Joe Biden fell back into his habit of making false assertions about his past, this time claiming he had once had an abortion.
Published: Saturday, May 14th, 2022 @ 8:54 am
By: Babylon Bee
|
On April 20, or “4/20,” which in the world of marijuana smokers is like a national holiday, prominent N.C. Democrats celebrated the day themselves by calling for the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana and for clemency for those currently in prison for marijuana charges.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 3:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
A race-based training program used by federal agencies claims, among other things, that saying one is “colorblind” to race is itself racist.
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2022 @ 7:48 am
By: Daily Wire
|
Russian vodka is no longer available in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 4:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
Work gives purpose, creates abundance, instills pride and responsibility, and promotes the economic growth that we see today.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 11:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing Wednesday morning on the permanent expansion of allowable growler sizes in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
My latest column for the American Institute for Economic Research, “Freedom and Whisky Go Together Like Tyranny and Oppression,” opens at a Burns Night supper in Raleigh not too long ago.
Published: Sunday, February 6th, 2022 @ 12:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
A judge in Illinois tossed a guilty verdict in a sexual assault case for an 18-year-old male facing a mandatory minimum of four years at sentencing after hearing arguments on two post-trial motions.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 1:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
Joe Perillo’s business was targeted by smash-and-grab perpetrators, who stole millions of dollars worth of merchandise from his Gold Coast Exotic Motor Cars store. During a meeting with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the mayor reportedly called Perillo an “idiot,” though he didn’t hear the insult.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 1:44 am
By: Daily Wire
|
A new year ushers in new laws in North Carolina. Here are the laws that took effect on Jan. 1.
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2022 @ 4:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control system has a new commissioner. It gets continued reassurance from its boards and warehouse operator that they’ll get it right and, to that end, newly created groups meant to help them do so.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 8:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
Hank Bauer is the new chairman of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 6:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
On September 24, 1971, the body of 17-year-old Maureen Brubaker-Farley was found on the trunk of an abandoned car near a landfill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She had only moved to the city that summer.
Published: Thursday, December 9th, 2021 @ 7:41 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
Leadership or staff from the company contracted to operate the state’s liquor warehouse and delivery system won’t meet with lawmakers to explain why N.C. ABC stores around the state have so many empty shelves.
Published: Saturday, December 4th, 2021 @ 7:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
The staff of the N.C. ABC met Tuesday, Nov. 9, with representatives from 34 local ABC boards across the state to talk about ways to improve the distribution of high-demand, low-supply, allocated spirituous liquor products.
Published: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
Voters in Robbinsville, a tiny town in North Carolina’s last dry county, have approved the sale of beer and wine, according to unofficial results Tuesday.
Published: Saturday, November 27th, 2021 @ 1:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
Robbinsville, in the mountains of western North Carolina, will vote Tuesday, Nov. 2, on the sale of beer and wine in the state’s last dry county. The referendum doesn’t include hard liquor, such as whiskey or vodka.
Published: Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 @ 9:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
Spiritous liquor is still in short supply in ABC stores across the state, and supply still isn’t keeping up with demand. Republican lawmakers say things are getting even worse.
Published: Saturday, November 6th, 2021 @ 10:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
Jarrett Dieterle writes at National Review Online about the nation’s convoluted alcohol restrictions.
Published: Thursday, November 4th, 2021 @ 5:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
Terrance Merriweather, deputy commissioner of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, will oversee daily operations of the agency until the governor appoints a new chairman.
Published: Thursday, November 4th, 2021 @ 11:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
ABC chairman A.D. Zander Guy Jr. has resigned as chairman of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission.
Published: Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 @ 9:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has signed House Bill 890, omnibus legislation to make changes to laws governing the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission.
Published: Friday, October 29th, 2021 @ 11:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
The N.C. Senate has passed House Bill 890, an all-encompassing measure that could help distillers succeed in a crowded and burgeoning industry.
Published: Monday, October 18th, 2021 @ 3:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
North Korea desires a return to nuclear talks — after sanctions are removed on several items, including liquor and suits for regime officials.
Published: Thursday, October 14th, 2021 @ 7:10 pm
By: Daily Wire
|
The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission and the company operating the state’s liquor warehouses are trying to offer a modicum of relief to local boards suffering from problems with the global supply chain.
Published: Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 @ 5:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
Ollie Mulligan, this week from an airport somewhere in the Northeast, talked about his upcoming flight home, about returning to his native Ireland, to County Kildare.
Published: Monday, August 2nd, 2021 @ 4:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|
Several bills to help N.C. distillers and to loosen alcohol regulation in the state are moving through the General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, June 24th, 2021 @ 12:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
|
Heavy drinking among women aged 30 to 80 spiked by 41% during pandemic shutdowns.
Published: Thursday, June 3rd, 2021 @ 3:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
|