2011 finally might be the year the state privatizes liquor business

PATRIOT NEWS… Supermarket wine kiosks were designed to address this lack of convenience, but they are hardly the answer.

The LCB dismisses these objections, insisting that its primary mission is not to serve customers but to protect them. “Alcohol is a dangerous product and it needs to be judiciously sold,” LCB Chairman Patrick Stapleton III said recently…

If that is the LCB’s main reason to exist, it should be disbanded immediately…. The reality is that Pennsylvania is no better or worse at protecting the public than states with private liquor stores… (more)

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