Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
There is a temptation to believe that politics is corrupt, period. There’s even good reason to believe that one lobbyist and one lobbying organization is just like the other. They do their darnedest to pay for results. It’s just not true. Some lobbying groups and some industries are more powerful by many degrees than most other industries. The Wine Distribution industry is just such an industry. The Portland Oregonian has published a story detailing the corrupt relationship between Oregon’s wine…
I love reading the results of controlled studies, surveys and polls. I believe they mean something…when interpreted in just the right way. Take for example This New Study, in the American Journal of Public Health and Reported upon by the New York Times. It demonstrates that after making it legal to purchase alcohol on Sundays in New Mexico (yes, it had been illegal to do so…sigh……) fatal traffic accidents related to alcohol use increased on that day. Here’s my probing…
I am absolutely fascinated by the campaign surrounding the ballot measure in Massachusetts that would expand wine sales into grocery stores. Currently you can only buy wine at "package stores" in the state. Without hearing any of the rhetoric from either side in the campaign you would b confronted with this question: "Should Grocery Stores Be allowed to sell Wine"? …..(the sound of silence)…..I know….Me too!…I’m not sure I even "get" the question or why it needs to be asked….
There are those of you out there who follow the wrangling, legal and otherwise, in the battle across the country over direct shipment of wine to consumers. The legal issues are pretty arcane. But for those who do take an interest in this the there has been a lot of very interesting movement in the direct shipping legal landscape. In my estimation no one is covering this issue better than Ship Compliant Blog. These folks are in the business of…
Ever hear the term "Guns don’t kill, people kill"? It has been the long term meme of the gun rights folk who point out that guns are not inherently dangerous unless they are in the hands of dangerous people. Being one who tends to favor a bit of gun control legislation here and there I tend to scoff at what seems like trite political slogan. Then I see stories like THIS ONE and realize that the slogan might only seem…
