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  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    Zero One Vintners to Open in Kirkland This Weekend

    A new winery opens at 131 Lake Street South in downtown Kirkland this Sunday, according to The Kirkland Reporter. Run by a husband-wife duo with more than 20 years of experience in the wine industry, Zero One Vintners will specialize in making and selling wines from the Columbia and Walla Walla Val ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Seattle's Extended Bar Hours Proposal Delayed Indefinitely As State Quits Liquor Business

    The effort to allow Seattle bars and clubs to serve booze beyond 2 a.m. hit an unexpected roadblock earlier this month when Washington voters approved I-1183 and put an end to state-run liquor stores.

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Local Alcohol Sellers Parse Meaning of 1183 Win

    ​A resounding majority of Washington voters yesterday agreed the state shouldn't be in the booze business, voting to approve a Costco-backed measure to privatize liquor sales. The adoption of Initiative 1183 means state liquor stores - a vestige of laws adopted to smooth the reintroduction of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Owner of Northwest's Biggest Wine Store Opposes Initiative 1183

    ​David LeClaire, founder of Wine World Warehouse, is one of the few Washington-based wine sellers who stands to benefit if voters today approve Initiative 1183. As the owner of a store that exceeds the 10,000 square-foot dimensions required by the liquor privatization measure, LeClaire could b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Georgia Also Voting on Liquor Laws Today

    ​Washingtonians aren't the only voters grappling with alcohol legislation today: Residents of 101 cities and counties across Georgia are deciding whether to legalize Sunday liquor sales. Unlike Initiative 1183, which inspired the most expensive campaign in the state's history, the ballot meas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Costco Uses Republican I-1183 Consultant to Create a Non-Corporate, Blue-Collar Message

    ​There's a perfectly good reason why you're seeing firefighters, cops and teachers speaking out on TV in favor of the initiative to hand over the state's liquor sales to private industry: I-1183 would most likely fail if its ads portrayed the real-life overlords of the campaign. By having con ... More >>

  • Food

    October 19, 2011

    A Little Raskin: Craft Distillers' Private Concerns

    I-1183 neutralizes the state's booze biz.

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Craft Distillers Grapple With Initiative 1183

    ​Washington's craft distillers are studiously avoiding taking a stand in the Initiative 1183 fight, citing business-related hazards associated with both positions. "Most of the small guys, we've tended to stay out of it," says Steven Stone, founder of Sound Spirits in Interbay. "If we come ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Free Booze Coming to Washington State Liquor Stores

    ​Who says there aren't any perks to having state-run liquor stores?

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2011

    A Drink for the Kids Grand Finale with Hot Bodies in Motion

    ​Who says there aren't any perks to having state-run liquor stores?

  • Calendar

    March 30, 2011

    Pudding

    ​Who says there aren't any perks to having state-run liquor stores?

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Boozy Picture: Two State Liquor Initiatives Both Supported and Opposed by Beer & Wine Sellers

    ​As if the initiatives to privatize state-controlled liquor sales weren't already complicated, booze sellers have now lined up on both sides of the fight. I-1100 and I-1105, which would put state liquor stores out of business, are backed by the fat wallets of beer and wine retailers and distri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Liquor Privatization Advocates Say Intiatives Will Maintain Liquor Law Enforcement, But Where Will The Funding Come From?

    ​One of the few things that's crystal clear about the two competing liquor privatization initiatives is that if either gets approved by voters this November, an estimated 930 state Liquor Control Board employees will lose their jobs. As reported last month in a cover story by Rick Anderson, th ... More >>

  • News

    July 28, 2010

    Battle of the Booze

    Competing privatization initiatives offer more questions than answers.

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    The Safeway Formula: Throw Produce Onto Parking Lot, Pitch Tent, Call it "Farmers Market"

    Whose fields? Who cares?​Last week, the story broke that a Kirkland Safeway was advertising a weekend "Farmer's Market." When Martha Tyler, manager of the nearby Redmond Saturday Farmers Market, drove by and spotted Safeway's banner, she went in to ask for more details. Tyler was told that Saf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Private Liquor Store Measure Introduced: End of State Stores Coming?

    ​The Washington Citizens for Liquor Reform introduced a measure today to privatize liquor sales in Washington. The measure, expected to be backed by major supermarket retailers among others, effectively would end the state's decades-old liquor business. "We think a broad group of people will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Will Washington Drop the Booze Business?

    Leaving a location near you?​Most of Washington's bar owners, beverage distributors and state union activists don't yet know Charla Neuman. In a few weeks, there's a pretty good chance they will. Neuman, a public relations consultant, is helping to organize one of what could be handful of bal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Morning Food News: Got Beer? Walgreens Now Does.

    Now you can get your drugs AND alcohol at Walgreens! ​Here's some easy news to start your week with: Eight Walgreens in Seattle, including the busy store located on 15th Avenue East, have been approved to for licenses to sell wine and beer, according to Capitol Hill Seattle Blog. Walgreens hop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Bill Revamps Booze Sales; Will It Be Bottled Up Again?

    ​If you've ever lived in, say, California, and been able to run to the corner store for, say, a bottle of Old Throwup, then you might also say this is a good idea: Two state senators are proposing to scrap the state-run liquor store system by 2012 and let the free market go at it. Tim Sheldo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Last Chance to Buy Booze at Moderately Ridiculous Prices

    Tomorrow, the price of booze in Washington graduates to stupidly expensive when the Washington State Liquor Control Board raises its profit margin on every single bottle of hard alcohol available in the state. You can read my column about it, "They've Got Us by the Booze" and get angry, hopefully. ... More >>

  • Food

    July 8, 2009

    Amazon's Grab at the Wine Business

    The online retailer could buy wine in a quantity that would bring new meaning to the word “bulk.”

  • Food

    June 3, 2009

    Search & Distill: They’ve Got Us By the Booze

    With the price of hooch about to go up, isn’t it time we consulted the open market?

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Craft Beer Sales Were Up in 2008

    The Brewers Association says that craft beer sales were up 5.8 percent by volume and 10.5 percent by dollars. Via ReelBeer.com: "2008 was a historic year for beer with the large brewers consolidating and imports losing share, while the top ten selling beer brands dropped in sales. At the same time, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Fuzzy Mirror Dice For Our Sabbath-Observing, Prohibition-Relic Liquor Stores

    We've written previously on the never-say-die dinosaurs that are our liquor stores. Now Governor Gregoire and the Liquor Control Board want to open more of them, and let them sell more stuff. Proposed new items include "bar tools," ice, and lottery tickets. We have a few more ideas that might help t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2008

    Tour de Fat

    We've written previously on the never-say-die dinosaurs that are our liquor stores. Now Governor Gregoire and the Liquor Control Board want to open more of them, and let them sell more stuff. Proposed new items include "bar tools," ice, and lottery tickets. We have a few more ideas that might help t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2007

    Beaujolais Nou...Doh!

    We've written previously on the never-say-die dinosaurs that are our liquor stores. Now Governor Gregoire and the Liquor Control Board want to open more of them, and let them sell more stuff. Proposed new items include "bar tools," ice, and lottery tickets. We have a few more ideas that might help t ... More >>

  • Film

    September 5, 2007

    Czech Dream: Globalization Gets Punk’d!

    We've written previously on the never-say-die dinosaurs that are our liquor stores. Now Governor Gregoire and the Liquor Control Board want to open more of them, and let them sell more stuff. Proposed new items include "bar tools," ice, and lottery tickets. We have a few more ideas that might help t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2007

    Sundays, Boozy Sundays

    We've written previously on the never-say-die dinosaurs that are our liquor stores. Now Governor Gregoire and the Liquor Control Board want to open more of them, and let them sell more stuff. Proposed new items include "bar tools," ice, and lottery tickets. We have a few more ideas that might help t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2007

    The Vodka Challenge

    We've written previously on the never-say-die dinosaurs that are our liquor stores. Now Governor Gregoire and the Liquor Control Board want to open more of them, and let them sell more stuff. Proposed new items include "bar tools," ice, and lottery tickets. We have a few more ideas that might help t ... More >>

  • Food

    December 14, 2005

    A Sad State

    We've written previously on the never-say-die dinosaurs that are our liquor stores. Now Governor Gregoire and the Liquor Control Board want to open more of them, and let them sell more stuff. Proposed new items include "bar tools," ice, and lottery tickets. We have a few more ideas that might help t ... More >>

  • News

    January 5, 2005

    Consumers Get Corkscrewed

    The Liquor Board is quietly raising wine prices in state stores—because retail competitors want it to.

  • Food

    July 14, 2004

    The Food Lover's Guide to Seattle

    By Katy Calcott (Sasquatch Books, $16.95 paper)

  • Food

    February 20, 2002

    Side Dish

    Fish without guilt

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    Booze battles

    Despite its many enemies, the Liquor Board lives on.

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