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Tom Corbett
State Senate Says Private Booze Sales Are a Low Priority Dwundling tax revenues and the lack of a budget plan are a much higher priority.
By Collin Keefe
Booze You Can Use
Feb. 27, 2013
By Collin Keefe
Liquor Store Privatization Plan Doesn’t Add Up For Schools We knew it wouldn’t be long until the other shoe dropped in this latest chapter of the privatization saga.
By Collin Keefe
Sandusky Scandal Might Take Down Governor Too He remained free for years on Tom Corbett’s watch.
By Margaret Hartmann
Now Liquor Store Privatization Will Generate $1 Billion for Public Schools The latest plan calls for turning over money raised from auctioning off liquor licenses to public schools.
By Collin Keefe
Outgoing LCB Chief to Get the Last Laugh His return to the booze board as a consultant is totally legal and legit.
By Collin Keefe
Corbett Would Like to Give LCB’s CEO the Boot The Governor expects to eliminate the CEO position altogether.
By Collin Keefe
Dispute About Eggs Not Going Over Easy in Harrisburg Lat year’s dispute over eggs has hatched a whole new lawsuit.
By Collin Keefe
Corbett Administration Moves Forward on Asset Tests for Food Stamps; Blue Bottle Plus: Today’s beef is more environmentally sound than beef of yore; and “blue laws” ban booze sales on Super Bowl Sunday, all in our morning news roundup.
Politicians Line Up to Blast Corbett Over Food Stamp Assets Tests; Don’t Plus: USDA’s gardeners’ guide shows warm zones have drifted North; and Burger King’s latest concoction packs more than 1,000 calories, all in our morning news roundup.
Not So Fast: LCB’s Privatization Caught in Limbo The pathway to privatization is a tough row to hoe.
By Collin Keefe
Pour One Out For the LCB The study says that selling off the state’s liquor stores is what’s best for Pennsylvania, its finances and its residents.
By Collin Keefe
Booze News
Sept. 30, 2011
Look Out LCB, the Ax Is About to Fall! The new 23-member panel will begin deliberating the future of PA’s liquor store system in coming weeks.
By Collin Keefe
Corbett’s Secretary of Health Wastes Taxpayer Money on New Windbreakers; Plus Katy Perry is latest celebrity to suffer food poisoning; and scientists say consuming invasive species could be a good thing, all in our morning news roundup.
Corbett Taps GOP Crony For LCB Seat; House Republicans Won’t Side With Obama on Plus: Famous Food is called a ‘Train Wreck’; and rioting over food prices rattles Kenya, all in our morning news roundup.
The Happiest Hours on Earth
June 23, 2011
Corbett Expected to Sign Off on Extended Happy Hours The new rules will give bars more flexibility to dispense cheap drinks as they see fit.
By Collin Keefe
Health Inspectors Egged On by Peeved PA Secretary of Health; Russian Troops Were Plus: Food takes center stage at British pubs as beer sales drop and alcohol taxes increase; and Houlihan’s is closed after a kitchen fire, all in our morning news roundup.
PLCB Shenanigans
Mar. 30, 2011
Corbett Turns to Consultants to Conduct Liquor Store Study The move sends a message to voters that the governor is clueless in his quest to privatize the state’s liquor stores.
By Collin Keefe
Booze You Can Use
Mar. 23, 2011
By Collin Keefe
Booze You Can Use
Mar. 3, 2011
Gov. Corbett and Co. Back Off From Liquor Store Sales In the face of fundraising and lobbying efforts by state store workers, the Corbett administration is backing off its campaign promise to sell of the LCB’s retail arm.
By Collin Keefe
Booze You Can Use
Feb. 25, 2011
By Collin Keefe
Booze You Can Use
Feb. 24, 2011
Lawmakers Get Ready to Rumble Over the Pros and Cons of Liquor Privatization Deliberations over the future of liquor sales in PA will surely drive lawmakers to drink.
By Collin Keefe
With Lawsuits Symphony House Is Killing South Street’s Jamaican Jerk Hut; Plus a Super Bowl ad depicting Dorito’s as a sacrament stirs an uproar, and food dye may cause hyperactivity, all in our morning news roundup.
Booze You Can Use
Nov. 16, 2010
LCB Is Unfazed by Corbett; Continues Its Roll Out of Fine Wine and Good Spirits Philadelphia’s new Fine Wine and Good Spirits store is LCB’s way of thumbing its nose at Corbett.
By Collin Keefe
Drink Cheap or Die: Governor-Elect Tom Corbett Takes Aim at PLCB Price Hikes; Plus fire damages a historic Bucks County inn, and scientists discover a new species of lizard on restaurant menus in Vietnam, all in our morning news roundup.