{Frankfort,
Kentucky}…After three months of work, a 22-member task force aimed at
overhauling the state’s alcoholic-beverage regulations that date back to
Prohibition will vote on committee recommendations on December 13th and send
them to Governor Steve Beshear. Recommendations include that the state
consolidate more than 70 types of liquor and beer licenses and a repeal of a
law that requires county liquor stores and bars to close on the day a city or
precinct holds a wet-dry vote. The recommendations come just months after U.S.
District Judge John Heyburn II ruled that Kentucky's law allowing alcohol sales
at gas stations and drug stores but not groceries is unconstitutional because
there's no justification for allowing drug stores that carry groceries to sell
wine and liquor while banning it at a pharmaceutical-selling grocery store.
