beer
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Big money pours in for ballot measures on housing, liquor and magic mushrooms
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Get ready for lots of campaign ads on housing, liquor and “magic mushrooms” in the next 90 days because that’s where the big money will likely be spent in the November election. As of Monday, two ballot measures have qualified for the general election and another four are under signature review by the Secretary of…
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Full-strength beer hits grocery, convenience stores in Colorado
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COLORADO SPRINGS – On the sleepy, arctic, first day of the new year, long-anticipated change was afoot at one Safeway store. Where once “near beer,” the much-maligned, but grudgingly accepted liquid refreshment with 3.2 percent alcohol by volume, resided on the cooler shelves, was now a colorful bevy of full-strength local and craft beers. “I’m excited,”…
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Census Bureau toasts Colorado jobs from beer
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Colorado is awash in suds, and that means more jobs are on tap. That’s the point of a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau, which apparently has been busy counting breweries as well as people. Colorado ranks second behind only California for the number of breweries, at 204 in 2016, up from 57 in…
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Hickenlooper signs pension-reform bill; vetoes 2 measures
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Gov. John Hickenlooper signed several pieces of legislation Monday but also added to his veto tally. The governor signed into law a bill that lawmakers and pensioners hope will start the state on a path to shoring up a $32 billion shortfall in the Colorado Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) pension plan for state workers…
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Lawmakers craft a deal on beer sales at grocery stores
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Colorado legislators toasted a compromise over beer sales late Wednesday, passing a bill on the final night of their 2018 legislative session. Grocery and convenience stores, which have only been able to sell low-strength beer for decades, will be allowed to sell full-strength beer starting next January under a 2016 law. Senate Bill 243, adopted…
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With big changes in Colo. beer sales ahead, lawmakers scramble on rules
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Come Jan. 1, you should be able to walk into most Colorado grocery and convenience stores to buy full-strength beer, the result of a measure adopted by the General Assembly in 2016. But that measure failed to include rules for implementation. A bill currently working its way through the legislature in this session’s final days…
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FEEDBACK | Our guv is one to point fingers at pot
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Gov Hickenlooper says that if data indicates and supports that an intoxicant contributes to a public-safety problem, then he will rethink what the voters have approved and as a public servant work to recriminalize it. Well, the jury has come back and alcohol is the scourge that everyone knew it was. Domestic violence, drunken-driving deaths,…
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Colorado’s much-unloved 3.2 beer still the default brew despite 2016 legislation
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Colorado’s General Assembly might as well have set out to revise the U.S. tax code – and then seek a lasting Mideast peace – and it still wouldn’t have been as complicated as trying to untie the Gordian Knot constricting retail liquor sales in the state. Compromise legislation passed by the legislature over a year ago was supposed to usher in historic regime…
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Liquor store expansion effort draws dramatic wrangling from all sides
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The continuing saga over expanding liquor sales in Colorado took more bizarre twists and turns Wednesday as lawmakers narrowly advanced legislation. The House Finance Committee advanced a measure on a 7-6 vote that would build on last year’s historic overhaul of liquor laws that allowed for the gradual sale of full-strength alcohol in grocery stores…
