Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
It appears that the alcohol distributors in North Carolina along with their national umbrella organization the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers Association are very proud of themselves for having printed up stickers discouraging minors from drinking. So proud of this sticker printing project that they issued a press release congratulating themselves on their sticker printing prowess. One small quote in the press release by Bill Kennedy, president of Mutual Distributing of Raleigh, reminded me of an idea I’ve ruminated on for…
I admit to being entirely curfuddled (sp?) by what we’ve come to call the "healthcare crisis" here in America. Basically, all I know is that I’m probably going to die because I don’t have healthcare coverage that will pay to have my head removed from my ass or pay to have the correct procedure administered when I need to be treated for Emuthropopolititus – aliabosisalia…or something like that. But, folks are working on the problem. Those folks are usually presidential…
I’m not sure who’s responsible for determining which links to news stories are placed in WineBusiness.com’s Daily News Links that get sent to my e-mailbox and are read first think every morning. I think it might be Editor Cyril Penn. Today’s e-mail was interesting. The lead story..or link…was to this story: "Judge Blocks Effort to Use No-Match Letters To Fire Illegal Workers". The program blocked by the U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer is described this way in the article:"Under the…
Yes, this editorial is a little late, but it is still on the mark. Last week Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed HB 429 into law. It takes effect on June 1, 2008. You remember this law. It’s the one that many have come to call "The Wine Distributor Protection Act of 2007". It’s also the law that the codifies the idea that wine Illinoisans obtain from out-of-state retailers is down right dangerous and must be prohibited from coming into the…
Reading this Chicago Sun Times editorial by Richard Roeper I admit feeling inspired to hyperbole. My brain immediately told my fingers to type out something like, "encouraging parents to take a ‘zero tolerance position on drinking by their minor children may be among the most destructive movements in our culture." Of course this absurd zero tolerance position, one which Roeper so thoroughly mocks and demolishes, isn’t the most destructive movement in our culture. There are a few things in fact…
