Morning Edition host pleas for privatized liquor stores
Walk into any moderately nice bar in Philadelphia and you’ll find someone who can recommend you a good beer. Not a Coors Light; something local, something foreign, something hoppy, etc.
New bars and microbrews make the beer-tasting experience in Philadelphia, a great beer city, much more pleasurable.
But a wine city we’re not.
Our Morning Edition host, Jo Ann Allen, wants to be able to have that same experience when buying a fine wine or liquor. But she can’t. At least not until Pennsylvania chooses to privatize liquor stores.
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