Last week The Star News Online reported Billy Williams, former chief of the New Hanover County Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Board, was convicted of felony charges for submitting ... Keep Reading
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Smart cards, mental health workers bill of rights and liquor sales on Sundays among new bills introduced
Republican Senator Fletcher Hartsell introduced a bill to set up a pilot program using biometric Smart Cards to fight fraud in Medicaid (SB307). The Department of Health and Human ... Keep Reading
Perdue’s Priority #1: More Money for the Ruling Class
Today's N&O features another story about Gov. Perdue's lack of core principles regarding government's proper role in society. I wrote last week about Perdue's inability to ... Keep Reading
ABC Privatization Debate Forthcoming?
Per a News & Observer report, the chairman of the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control Commission (ABC) Jon Williams expects a debate on whether to privatize liquor sales in ... Keep Reading
Governor Perdue Has Right Idea
Dare I say that Governor Perdue may be on to something? According to a recent article on WRAL.com, a good read by the way, the Governor is open to privatizing parts of the ABC ... Keep Reading
Virginia’s McDonnell Wants to Privatize Liquor Sales
While North Carolina moved to centralize control over the state’s archaic liquor system and redesign the system’s ethics regulation (see legislation here), Governor Bob McDonnell ... Keep Reading
More Ethics Issues for ABC Stores
Per the Greensboro News-Record, it appears as though another of North Carolina’s Alcohol Beverage Control Boards is in trouble. This time it’s Greensboro’s ABC Board General ... Keep Reading
Public Support for ABC Privatization?
Today, SB1112, “Modernization of the State ABC System,” was considered in the Senate Judiciary II Committee. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Don Vaughan (D-Guilford), claimed that there ... Keep Reading
More on ABC Reform Efforts
Yesterday I blogged about the Budget Reform and Accountability Commission's recommendations regarding North Carolina's ABC system. That wasn't the only group looking at ABC reform ... Keep Reading
Privatizing ABC Faces Deep Divides
In our poll this month, we once again tested voters' opinion on privatizing the ABC system of government-run liquor stores. While we found increased support for privatization, ... Keep Reading
