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- Why is the CDC Being Anti-Science on State Liquor Privatization?
Leonard Gilroy
May 14, 2013, 2:26pm - State Liquor Privatization Update
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: State Government Privatization
Leonard Gilroy
April 22, 2013 - Washington State Enters New Era of Liquor Privatization
Leonard Gilroy
May 31, 2012, 10:42am - Washington State Approves Privatization of State Liquor Monopoly; Other States May Follow
Washington State to become first state to fully privatize state's wholesale, retail liquor monopoly
Leonard Gilroy
May 31, 2012 - Will States Toast Liquor Privatization in 2012?
Reviewing the landscape for divesting state alcohol monopolies
Leonard Gilroy
February 3, 2012 - Getting a Beer in Iowa Is Tougher Than You Think
The Ames straw poll is on Saturday. You probably need a drink.
Harry Graver
August 12, 2011 - Obama's War on Fun
The president breathes new life into the Nanny State
Gene Healy
May 17, 2011 - New at Reason: Review of State Privatization Issues in 2010 and Today
Harris Kenny
February 18, 2011, 3:48pm - Wet at Last
Dallas legalizes alcohol.
Jacob Sullum
February 1, 2011 - When Booze Was Banned but Pot Was Not
What can today’s antiprohibitionists learn from their predecessors?
Jacob Sullum
January 13, 2011 - Prohibitionists: Leave Us Alone!
The government has no business attacking caffeinated alcoholic drinks
John Stossel
January 6, 2011 - No Booze for You
If state alcohol monopolies were good at serving consumers, they'd have no reason to exist.
Jacob Sullum
January 5, 2011 - Nudgers vs. Nannies
The civil war between British busybodies
Brendan O'Neill
January 4, 2011 - Loco Over Four Loko
The moral panic behind the ban
Jacob Sullum
November 24, 2010 - The Other Big Debate This Election Cycle -- The 'Wets' vs. 'Drys'
State monopolies on liquor sales don't create safer societies than states with privatized sales
Anthony Randazzo and Jason Mercier
November 1, 2010 - Ending Government Liquor Monopolies
Anthony Randazzo
October 29, 2010, 4:36pm - Abolish Drunk Driving Laws
If lawmakers are serious about saving lives, they should focus on impairment, not alcohol.
Radley Balko
October 11, 2010 - Reform, Transportation Trump Revenue-Neutrality in Virginia ABC Privatization Plan
Leonard Gilroy
October 8, 2010, 5:00am - Reform, Transportation Trump Revenue-Neutrality: The Rationale for ABC Privatization, Part 2
Streamlining the state, investing in needed transportation should be the focus, not revenue-neutrality
Leonard Gilroy
October 7, 2010 - Wine Snobs and Suds Swillers Unite!
Legislation oozing its way up the Hill threatens open markets in beer, wine, and liquor.
Katherine Mangu-Ward
July 8, 2010 - Costco Steps Up for Liquor Privatization in WA State
Leonard Gilroy
May 26, 2010, 6:20pm - Gin, Girls, and Governance
Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman on personal freedom, free speech, and the state
Radley Balko
May 10, 2010 - Cocktails Cops Can't Resist
Bartenders revive classic cocktails. The law responds by reviving classic crackdowns.
Katherine Mangu-Ward
April 2, 2010 - Too Much Fun
Caffeinated alcoholic drinks draw the feds’ wrath for candor in advertising.
Greg Beato
March 30, 2010 - Keep Your Laws Off My Body
The case for legalizing drugs, prostitution, organ sales, and other consensual acts.
John Stossel
March 4, 2010 - Fight the Power
The unfulfilled promise of “constitutional conservatism”
Jacob Sullum
February 24, 2010 - Virginia is For (Liquor) Lovers!
Adrian Moore
January 26, 2010, 1:53pm - Why Privatizing Liquor Stores in Virginia to Fund Transportation Makes Sense
Leonard Gilroy
July 22, 2009, 2:12pm - The Catastrophe of What Passes for Alcohol Policy Analysis
What costs does alcohol impose on California's taxpayers?
Policy Brief 78
Edward Stringham
May 12, 2009 - Which States Make the Most Beer?
Adrian Moore
April 21, 2009, 6:19pm - Nothing to Toast in California's Proposed 'Dime a Drink' Tax
False claims about alcohol's costs and lost wages are being used to push tax increases
Edward Stringham
April 20, 2009 - California's Dime a Drink Tax Proposal
Edward Stringham
April 17, 2009, 10:07am - New Documentary Beer Wars and Live Event With Ben Stein On April 16th
April 6, 2009, 5:19pm - An American Beer Revolution
Reason.tv video on the surge in craft beers
March 9, 2009 - Report: Drinkers Earn More Money Than Non-Drinkers
Social drinkers who hang out in bars bring home even bigger paychecks
September 14, 2006 - No Booze? You May Lose
Why Drinkers Earn More Money Than Nondrinkers
Bethany L. Peters and Edward Stringham
September 1, 2006
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- Why is the CDC Being Anti-Science on State Liquor Privatization? (5/14)
- State Liquor Privatization Update (4/22)
- Washington State Enters New Era of Liquor Privatization (5/31)
- Washington State Approves Privatization of State Liquor Monopoly; Other States May Follow (5/31)
- Will States Toast Liquor Privatization in 2012? (2/3)
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