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The Idaho State Liquor Division is on track for another record year in 2015, the division reported to legislative budget writers Friday, in part because of cross-border buyers from Washington, who now account for a steady 7 percent of the division’s sales. Before Washington voters decided to privatize their state liquor sales system in 2011 – and add taxes that upped prices – Washington buyers accounted for about 3 to 4 percent of Idaho’s sales. In 2012, division Director Jeff Anderson said, “We began to get traffic. That’s when we opened a new store in Stateline, Idaho, to relieve the pressure on the Post Falls store that was being overwhelmed, frankly”/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.