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EOB: Panel OKs Liquor License Reform

Posted by DFO

March 23, 2009 1:20 p.m. • 1 comment

After more than two hours of testimony for and against the bill, the Senate State Affairs Committee has voted 6-3 in favor of SB 1148, Gov. Butch Otter’s proposal to reform Idaho’s liquor license system, which currently sets population-based quotas for liquor licenses but has allowed 235 licenses to be issued outside those quotas under special exceptions approved by the Legislature/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

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saraeanderson on March 23 at 7:52 p.m.
I’d sure like to see some better competition on the bar scene in Moscow - I’m sure this will go a long way toward making that happen.

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