Post by Logan on Jul 5, 2016 7:05:20 GMT -6
Legal alcohol sales spread in Kentucky as economy, laws and attitudes change
State alcohol regulators prepared a new map a couple of months ago showing Kentucky’s jumble of legally dry, wet and partially wet cities and counties, but it’s already out of date.
Just last Tuesday, voters approved legal alcohol sales in long-dry Cumberland and Metcalfe counties, while Williamsburg and Mayfield residents voted for expanded sales.
That continued a trend that has seen the state go increasingly wet.
A number of factors account for that, observers said, including economic concerns, changes in state law, a greater acceptance of alcohol — even among members of churches that once strongly fought legal liquor — and hopes of keeping pace with nearby wet cities and counties.
“It’s sort of the domino effect,” said Don Cole, an ordained Baptist minister who heads the Kentucky League on Alcohol & Gambling Problems. “All the counties are scratching for money.”
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/state/article87501707.html