By CAL Staff Christian Action League June 8, 2018 RALEIGH – Except for its listing on the Senate Calendar, which did not appear until Wednesday evening, there was essentially no warning about an Omnibus ABC bill that was taken up Thursday morning in the Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee. The measure, HB 500 – ABC […]
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Opening Days of the ‘Short Session’ include Teacher Protest, ‘In God We Trust,’ Gambling, Alcohol Reform, and School Safety
By Hunter Hines Christian Action League May 18, 2018 RALEIGH – North Carolina lawmakers returned to Raleigh on Wednesday for the end of the 2017-2018 Legislative Biennium. Commonly referred to as the “short session,” legislators between May and the middle of July spend most of their time making adjustments to the state’s budget. This year’s […]
More States Toasting New Laws Allowing for Sunday Alcohol Sales
By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League April 27, 2018 More and more states are now toasting new laws that allow for alcohol sales on Sundays. Indiana, Minnesota, and Tennessee are some of the latest. Even my own home state, North Carolina, amended its alcohol laws last year to allow for alcohol sales before noon […]
Don’t Believe the Lie: Alcohol is NOT a Health Food.
By Daniel Amen Christian Action League April 19, 2018 While biblical scholars debate whether it is biblically OK to drink alcohol, there is a widespread perception that it is good to drink alcohol for health reasons. Drinking red wine in moderation, and more recently alcohol, in general, has been advanced as something that can improve one’s health. The […]
Some Tar Heel Leaders Want to Turn Alcohol Awareness into Alcohol Sales
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League April 13, 2018 As it has for the past three decades, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is sponsoring Alcohol Awareness Month in April to increase public awareness and encourage communities to focus on alcoholism and related issues. But some North Carolina leaders seem to want to […]
Low Alcohol Drinks: Emerging From a Cloud of Tobacco Smoke
Alcohol Justice March 8, 2018 Big Alcohol would like you to know that it’s your friend. It does this in many ways. With advertisements featuring funny skits and catchy phrases. With philanthropic pushes that spend more on marketing than they earn for their recipients. And with grand language about reducing the harm of drinking, often […]
Experts Say Alcohol Tax Cuts Will Claim Lives
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League January 11, 2018 While the alcohol industry may still be celebrating its recent monumental legislative win — a $4.2 billion federal tax cut delivered in December — health and public policy experts are tallying what the move will cost the nation in medical and social costs and, profoundly worse, […]
Alcohol Industry Wins Big With Tax Reform Law
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 27, 2017 While President Trump touts his first legislative win, politicians disagree over whether the tax reform bill he signed Friday will most benefit big corporations or middle-class families. But one fact that no one is questioning is that the new law is delivering a huge financial gift […]
Pending Tax Reform in Congress Could Provide Alcohol Industry with Huge Christmas Gift
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 8, 2017 Although the jury is still out on which tax brackets will benefit most from pending tax reform, the nation’s alcohol industry is already raising a glass to celebrate significant tax cuts in a bill passed by the Senate Saturday and expected to remain in a conference […]
‘For Cancer Risk, It’s Best Not to Drink Alcohol’
By David R. Brumbelow Christian Action League December 6, 2017 A sobering Statement has been released by the American Society of Clinical Oncology on “Alcohol and Cancer.” Here are some excerpts from that article: “The importance of alcohol drinking as a contributing factor to the overall cancer burden is often underappreciated. In fact, alcohol drinking […]