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• Stores beefing up security for liquor

  May 18, 2012 in News, Business on Page A12 Many grocery stores getting ready to sell liquor starting June 1 are spending thousands of dollars to prevent theft and secure their new inventory from walking out the door. Rosauers … 4

• Dry Fly gearing up for June 1 change

  April 24, 2012 in News, Business, City on Page A8 Spokane’s Dry Fly Distilling has a two-part plan to take advantage of the big switch in liquor sales starting on June 1. That’s the date Initiative 1183 goes into effect, … 7

• Rights to Spokane area liquor stores auctioned off

  April 24, 2012 in Business on Page A8 OLYMPIA – The rights to operate Washington’s state-owned liquor stores have all been auctioned off, at prices ranging from about $750,000 for a store in Tacoma to just under $50,000 …

• Washington liquor store licenses auctioned

  April 23, 2012 in News, City, Region OLYMPIA — The rights to operate Washington’s state-owned liquor stores have all been auctioned off, at prices ranging from about $750,000 for a store in Tacoma to just under $50,000 … 13

• Liquor board issues 8 distributor licenses in area; Costco hasn’t applied

  March 21, 2012 in City on Page A10 OLYMPIA – For two years, Washington’s beer and wine distributors fought Costco-backed initiatives to get the state out of the liquor business. They won in 2010 but lost in 2011. … 2

• It won’t be hard to find hard liquor

  March 21, 2012 in Business on Page A1 It’s not exactly a gold rush. More like a mad dash to not be left behind when liquor sales go private in June. On June 1, the state’s roughly 330 … 9

• Liquor superstores scope out Washington sites

  January 27, 2012 in Business on Page A1 An East Coast company calling itself a “wine superstore” has announced plans to open two stores in the Spokane area. Representatives of the company, Total Wine, said those plans are … 34

• Liquor law brings inevitable change

  November 15, 2011 in Region About 53 percent of Whitman County ballots supported Initiative 1183, which will effectively close down state-run liquor stores and state liquor distribution centers and open up the opportunity for grocery … 9

• State must close all of its liquor operations by June

  November 10, 2011 in City on Page A5 Sometime after the first of next year, the impact of the successful initiative ending Washington’s 78-year control of liquor sales will become more apparent. That’s when state liquor stores, which … 22

• Liquor initiative puts contract businesses in peril

  November 9, 2011 in News Sometime after the first of next year, the impacts of the successful initiative ending Washington’s 78-year control of liquor sales will become more apparent. That’s when state liquor stores, which … 6

• The battle over booze

  November 1, 2011 in City on Page A1 The multimillion- dollar fight over state-run liquor sales is flooding the airwaves and stuffing mailboxes across the state as both sides in the Initiative 1183 debate try to empty their … 31

• Cash rolls in for, against liquor sales initiative

  August 24, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – This year’s ballot measure to get state government out of the liquor business is shaping up to be another multimillion-dollar fight that will pit one of Washington’s largest … 25