Argument brews over Kentucky s first Black-owned distillery
March 16, 2021
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) A disagreement is brewing over who started the first Black-owned distillery in Kentucky.
Victory Global, operating as Brough Brothers Distillery in Louisville, filed a federal lawsuit this month accusing Fresh Bourbon Distilling Co. in Lexington of “unfair competition for false advertising after its owners claimed to be Kentucky s first Black-owned distillery, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
Fresh Bourbon does not have its own distillery and does not have the necessary permits to distill and distribute bourbon, the lawsuit states. It asks for an injunction that would prevent Fresh Bourbon from saying that it is, or is one of, the first Black-owned distilleries in Kentucky.
Cowboys for Trump leader won t resign his Otero County post
March 16, 2021
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ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin has said he will not resign his seat on the Otero County Commission as he awaits trial in connection with the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol.
Griffin made the declaration in response to a press release issued last week by county commissioners Gerald Matherly and Vickie Marquardt calling for Griffin s resignation, The Alamogordo Daily News reported Saturday.
The topic took up more than an hour of the commission s meeting last Thursday after it was placed on the agenda for discussion. Matherly attempted to have it removed from the agenda, but was overruled. Marquardt defended the letter and reasons for requesting it.
No one focuses on the pain here : Inside Oakland s abandoned car epidemic
Ariana Bindman
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Just beneath the bustling Nimitz Freeway, there’s hundreds of them. Maybe even thousands.
They’re gutted and stripped, covered in graffiti, burned to pieces and exploding with trash. Oakland’s swaths of abandoned vehicles are an unsightly urban phenomenon, and just parallel to Wood Street, which is home to sprawling tent encampments, there’s an astonishing amount of them.
Just ahead, two people can be seen stripping a rusty truck that’s been reduced to a frame on wheels. The area, which feels like something out of a post-apocalyptic John Carpenter film, is cluttered with AC Transit buses, bombed-out BMWs and overturned Audis. But how did they get here? And more importantly, why is the city allowing them to accumulate?
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