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Colorado alcohol debate still bubbling despite new law

Mar 1, 2017

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Kristen Wyatt

Colorado isn’t done arguing about where alcohol should be sold. A bill moving through the state Senate would allow more Walmarts and other big-box stores to sell liquor, not just beer and wine. It’s a spirited debate less than a year after Colorado made its biggest alcohol change since the end of Prohibition by allowing…
Supermarket booze talks in legislature opens big-box stores to attacks

Feb 27, 2017

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Peter Marcus

A debate over a measure framed as a “cleanup” of full-strength alcohol sales in supermarkets devolved Monday into a referendum on big-box versus small retailers. Democrats were at odds with each other over whether the measure from Sen. Angela Williams, D-Denver, would result in “wiping out” small liquor stores. “What are we doing to our…
Building off of buzz from last year, efforts underway to expand Colorado alcohol laws

Feb 14, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Less than a year after lawmakers passed a grand compromise gradually allowing the sale of full-strength alcohol in grocery stores, a buzz has again hit the Capitol to expand efforts. The legislation last year represented the biggest change to state liquor laws since Prohibition. It marked progress after decades of failures trying to reform outdated…

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