liquor stores
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Committee passes bill changing how Colorado grocery stores can sell alcohol
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A Colorado House bill that would alter liquor licenses for mostly large grocery stores so that they can only sell beer and wine, not spirits, cleared the Business Affairs and Labor Committee on a 6-5 vote Thursday. House Bill 1373 drew hours of testimony from both sides of the issue and a rally on the Capitol…
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Committee passes bill changing how Colorado grocery stores can sell alcohol
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A Colorado House bill that would alter liquor licenses for mostly large grocery stores so that they can only sell beer and wine, not spirits, cleared the Business Affairs and Labor Committee on a 6-5 vote Thursday. House Bill 1373 drew hours of testimony from both sides of the issue and a rally on the Capitol…
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Committee passes bill changing how Colorado grocery stores can sell alcohol
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A Colorado House bill that would alter liquor licenses for mostly large grocery stores so that they can only sell beer and wine, not spirits, cleared the Business Affairs and Labor Committee on a 6-5 vote Thursday. House Bill 1373 drew hours of testimony from both sides of the issue and a rally on the Capitol…
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Advocates, opponents clash during town hall on Colorado’s alcohol ballot measures
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Business owners, lawmakers and activists clashed Thursday during a town hall that delved into three ballot measures seeking to expand the sale and delivery of alcohol. The town hall – hosted by Colorado Politics, The Denver Gazette and The Colorado Springs Gazette – brought together advocates and opponents of Propositions 126, 125 and 124. Respectively, the…
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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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Latest beer bill in legislature would undermine 2016’s sensible compromise
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There are many risks associated with owning a small business, risks which small business owners willingly assume as part of the choice they make to build their local economies and communities. One that they should not need to endure is the state legislature changing the rules midstream to artificially give one particular segment of their…
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Noonan: Late session bill dance frustrates citizens and reduces oversight
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The last full week of the 2017 General Assembly had 220 bills still unfinished, with three bills introduced within five days of the end of session. Five big bills, two negotiated for wins and three up in the air, were on the docket. SB17-267, the Sustainability of Rural Colorado bill, initially received support for its…
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Wheat Ridge demands return of records detailing billionaire’s stake in liquor giant Applejack
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Saying the city released records it shouldn’t have, an attorney representing the city of Wheat Ridge is demanding the immediate return of dozens of pages of documents concerning a 2014 liquor license application for a new owner of Applejack Wine and Spirits obtained in March under the Colorado Open Records Act, The Colorado Statesman has…
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Late liquor license bill pits smaller stores against some local retail giants
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Legislation introduced Tuesday to permit independent liquor stores to amass more than twice as many licenses as last year’s landmark compromise allows has groups representing smaller merchants warning the move will devastate Colorado’s mom-and-pop retail landscape, but the bill’s sponsors and supporters say it’s simply an attempt to level the playing field. House Bill 1370,…
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Rival groups of liquor retailers kick up dust in legislative fight over spirit licenses
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The battle over Colorado’s liquor store landscape intensified Monday in the wake of a Senate vote that killed a bill to let Wal-Mart sell full-strength liquor in as many as 20 locations over the next two decades, among other tweaks to 2016 legislation that overhauled the state’s liquor licensing laws. And amid renewed threats of…
