Tag Archives: wine in grocery stores
Bright & Early: Why Not Wine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The controversial issue of allowing wine to be sold in grocery stores is certainly not a new one, but lawmakers and advocates are taking a slightly different approach this year. The current bill moving through the legislature would give individual counties the opportunity to vote on the issue as early as August. [...]
Happy Hour: We Have Another Situation (Maybe!)
The weatherpeople are calling for another possible Ice/Snow Situation early next week, which means we have six days to come up with another good hashtag. Get to work! [Nashville WX]
But considering that the kiddos are already out of snow days, they could be looking at Saturday school or the much-dreaded “extended school year,” which means [...]
Happy Hour: We’re All Just Bums
Opponents of selling wine in grocery stores are now proclaiming that if we change the law to allow this kind of sale, we’ll be plagued with an epidemic of “street drinkers” whose unconscious bodies we will have to clear out of our driveways before we go to work every morning. For the love of Shiraz, [...]
Bright & Early: Wine Whine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After a vicious fight for wine in grocery stores last year, the debate is back on the table for the upcoming legislative session. This time, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle will take up the issue in a Joint Study Committee and they hope to have a full recommendation in about [...]
Happy Hour: You’ve Got Until Midnight
Lots and lots of talk about today’s teabaggin’ at the Capitol. Estimates for the turnout ranged from 1,000 (haters’ guestimate) to 7,500 (according to the organizers). Metro PD puts the crowd at 2,800 – 3,000. This guy just wanted some pot. [Tennessean]
Well, y’all, it was nice while it lasted: The bill to bring wine to [...]
Why Not Wine: Where’s Our Two Buck Chuck?
We admit it, we felt the sting of Tennessee’s current alcohol legislation a little harsher than usual when Trader Joe’s opened across the street from the Nashvillest HQ, painfully vacant of that 8th-wonder-of-the-world, Two Buck Chuck, and we know that many of our readers felt the same bitter pain. While it’s fun to sit around [...]
Bright & Early: Highs And Lows Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’ve gotta admit, we’re feeling pretty demoralized after Saturday’s Game Which Shall Not Be Named (the ‘Stache blames that missed delay of game call, but we’re not even sure that could have salvaged it) so we’re trying to look at the bright side–the Preds won and Steve Sullivan skated for the first [...]
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