DAILY GRINDER: Rizzo Going Out of Way to Sabotage Republican O’Neill in Council Race
Who says local politics can’t be fun? Now-Independent Councilman Frank Rizzo (kicked out of Republican leadership by Brian O’Neill and Jack Kelly after a vote in favor of making the 10th District less Republican) is conducting robocalls on behalf of Democrat Bill Rubin, who’s up against O’Neill on Tuesday. O’Neill is City Council’s only district Republican. Bank...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Ed Rendell Tells Occupiers to ‘Go Home’
Former Governor Ed Rendell does not think the Occupy Movement has any Flight 93 people on board. All the occupiers need to “go home, clean up, organize and go” he told…Laura Ingraham the other day. Because he assumes the movement is going to turn violent and will be similar to the riots at the Democratic Convention in 1968 where, “everything blew...
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Wine Kiosks Die
You may have missed this whole ordeal if you weren’t looking, but rest assured, your tax dollars paid for it. We’re talking about the dispute between the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and Conshohocken-based Simple Brands, Inc., the company that produced those Pennsylvania wine kiosks you likely never used because they’d yet to really infiltrate...
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PLCB: More Opposition to Wine Vending Machines
As we documented this week, there’s tons of opposition to both state stores and the legislation to eliminate them. It basically depends on what you think’s more important – keeping jobs in tact for the time being, or making liquor sales more competitive in the state’s long run (and catching up to the rest of the country that can drink alcohol without...
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DAILY GRINDER: PLCB Knew Wine Kiosk Plan Sucked, Went Through With it Anyway
The Liquor Control Board is just this beacon of greatness. And competence. Case in point (on opposite day): Those wine kiosks, which everyone hated and basically served as a reminder of how fucked our alcohol laws are. The LCB knew they weren’t going to be worth a damn (in their existence, the 30 kiosks’ sales totaled $1.2 million), and explicitly said so...
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Liquor Fights Heating Up for Fall
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board got around their own funeral during the past legislative session, in spite of Governor Tom Corbett having promised to drop an atomic bomb of dog shit all over the PLCB during the 2010 election. That’s in part due to the PLCB’s fight and marketing campaign to show the people of Pennsylvania how they’re run less like...
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Not Helping: Liquor Prices Going Up
Not sure what the committee overseeing a potential privatization of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control is up to (”trust exercises” perhaps?), but in the meantime the PLCB has enacted a new policy that changes the “bottle handling fee” and will have you paying more for a bottle of cheap wine in no time! Or, you know, August. Fun Fact: “Bottle-handling...
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New Liquor Licenses Coming?
Out in Harrisburg, the dreary state capital where dreams come true, Adams County State Representative Dan Moul plans on introducing legislation that would create a new type of liquor license. It’d “allow restaurants to sell wine – and only wine – to its patrons” according to PAIndependent. They’re also calling the potential bill another step toward...
Continue ReadingHate Pa.’s Liquor Laws? Watch Fox29 Tonight
It’s not that Pa. doesn’t like booze. We do. And we want desperately to set it free. You probably do, too. The wine kiosks were kind of a good idea, despite the fact that there’s only one, and it’s in Drexel Hill. But that was the extent of lawmakers’ and the Liquor Control Board’s attempts to improve our access to alcohol. But...
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