Pennsylvania liquor bill not a certainty
The liquor issue in Pennsylvania looked like a shoe-in for Republicans this year. Until it didn’t. After years of fights in the Capitol between governmental, union, nonprofit and private groups, many believed the House passage of a GOP-favored vote to privatize the liquor industry was finally ready to sail through the full Legislature. A confusing piece of...
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In Which We Use the Liquor Control Board’s $100 Thousand App
It was recently revealed by the Pittsburgh CBS affiliate that the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board spent $100,000 of taxpayer money creating its mobile smartphone application, which was released earlier this year. That seems like a lot. We think. So we decided to try it out. Just because. The Fine Wine and Good Spirits app, as it’s called, is suitable for...
Continue ReadingPennsylvania Liquor Control Board Responds to Offensive Date-Rape Ad
By now, you’ve probably seen the controversial Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board ads. You know, the ones that feature photos of what appear to be a young girl’s legs splayed on a tiled bathroom floor with underwear around her ankles. The ads send the message that women are not only at fault for getting themselves raped—a societal bias reflected in and...
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Day 1: Liquor Store Union Getting Ready For Fight With Corbett
Unionized Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board employees are wasting no time. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PLCB employees met at four Western Pennsylvania hotels Monday to discuss their strategy going forward to stop Governor Tom Corbett’s publicized plan to dismantle PA’s liquor sales operation. They’ve already been making the rounds, locally...
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