Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The bill passing the City Council tops a tumultuous few days for first term City Councilman Nick Mosby.
The City Council gave final approval on Monday to a bill one grocer’s association called racially motivated. Councilman Nick Mosby, currently serving his first term, celebrated the City Council passing his first ordinance, which bans youth from making any purchase from a city liquor store. "I’m going to have [the bill] framed," Mosby said following a Hampden Community Council meeting. Mosby said the legislation was something that he has been thinking about for years, even before he ran for the council. "I just thought it was fundamentally wrong for children to be in and out of liquor stores on a daily basis purchasing candy, and snacks, and chips and everything else," Mosby said. But the bill was controversial with Korean-American liquor …
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
A bill preventing residents under the age of 18 from purchasing any items from liquor stores faces little opposition
A bill banning residents under 18 from making purchases in Baltimore liquor stores is on a smooth path to becoming law. The Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Committee voted to move the bill out of committee with a favorable recommendation on Tuesday. The bill was amended to exclude stores, if liquor sales represent up to 20 percent of their receipts, after businesses, such as Eddie’s of Roland Park, expressed concern about the bill’s impact. "What we wanted to do was to make sure we focus on liquor stores. Not stores that happen to be stores but also sell small amounts of liquor," said Councilman Nick Mosby, the bill’s sponsor. Mosby, who represents parts of Hampden, Medfield and Hoes Heights, said he hasn’t spoke with all of his …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Committee of the Baltimore City Council held a hearing on Wednesday for a bill to ban youths from purchasing any items in liquor stores.
A lawyer representing a Korean American grocer’s group called a Baltimore City Council bill banning youths from purchasing items in liquor stores racially motivated. Bryan Everett, legal advisor for KAGRO-MD, said the bill’s exemption for so called "tavern licenses," which allow restaurants to sell liquor over the counter, but not on the licenses for standard liquor stores is proof of the bill’s racial motivations. "A minority of BD-7s are owned by Korean Americans, OK. That’s why they were left out. So motives I think here—even though they’re saying they’re not concerned about race, and ‘We’re not even going to consider that argument’—I think is disingenuous," Everett said. In his testimony against the bill, during the Judiciary and …
Sean Tully
10:13 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
I actually think this is a good idea. Kids have no business being in liquor stores. more ›