Chris Fine, executive director of the Colorado Licensed Beverage Association, said his group estimates that one in every four — or maybe even one in every three — of Colorado’s approximately 1,600 independent liquor stores could close as a result of the legislation and ballot issue. That would mean 400 to 600 shuttered retailers.
Few shots are ever heard at the busy northwest Longmont intersection of Hover Street and 17th Avenue. And yet it's a battlefield in a larger statewide war.
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Laws around the sale of alcohol in New York, which are some of the most restrictive alcohol control laws in the entire nation, have not changed since the 1930s. There
Coloradans will be able to begin buying wine at their local grocery and convenience stores early next year. The bitter battle over the future of wine sales stayed too close to call long after Election...