[lightman]

The liquor store union in Pennsylvania is on the ropes. Right now if one wants to buy beer or liquor in the Keystone State one must buy it from the state owned liquor stores

FALSE

Liquor = State Store
Wine = State Store or Winery (may have 2 soff-vineyard retail shop)
Beer & malts = Distributor by the case ONLY or up to two (2) 6 packs at bars and certain restaurants

Yes, it is on the ropes but so is this reporter who didn't check his facts.

[radiohead]

I’ve lived in DC & PA; both places have state stores. There were always drunks around the doorways. It was quite unpleasant, as a female, just to walk past these stores because of the kind of people hanging out in front.

What a surprise to live in WA and IA and find beer and liquor sold all over the place - drug store, gas station, grocery store - and not a drunk in sight.

I don’t know where the drunks go to get their fix, but I don’t see them here in Iowa.