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Perhaps ‘The Most Monumental Ballot in the History of Graham County’

By M.H. Cavanaugh Christian Action League November 11, 2021 Only days before the 2021 election, the Graham Star reported on an alcohol-related incident in which a woman seriously injured herself with a knife. According to the report, the local medical examiner said a male friend took a bottle of alcohol away from the woman and […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured, Voter Education Tagged With: alcohol referendum, alcohol sales, D.L. Orr, Graham County, Graham Star, Jenniela Parks, Lavetta Roper, M.H. Cavanaugh, Rev. Mark Creech, Robbinsville, VeryWellMind.com

Not Allowed Since Prohibition, Bottles of Liquor May Now Be Sold on Sundays

By L.A. Williams and Hunter Hines Christian Action League October 15, 2021 Media outlets are touting a change in ABC law which recognizes Oct. 3 as the “first Sunday a bottle of liquor has been legally sold in the state since the beginning of Prohibition.” H.B. 890, signed into North Carolina law by Gov. Roy Cooper […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: Alcohol Policy, Liquor Sales, Prohibition, Sunday

House ABC Committee Holds Hearing About ABC Woes: ‘Sincere Attempt to Remedy or Undermine?’

By L.A. Williams Christian Action League October 1, 2021 Less than two weeks after Zander Guy, chairman of the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, resigned his post amid liquor shortages, lawmakers on the House ABC Committee spent more than two hours Wednesday questioning others involved with the system about why alcohol is not getting […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: ABC Commission, ABC Committee, ABC Stores, Ben Thompson, DSDLink, Jamie Boles, Jon Carr, L.A. Williams, LB&B, liquor, Rep. Tim Moffitt, Rev. Mark Creech, Terrance Merriweather, Zander Guy

Cracker Barrel: No Apple Pie, But They Got Booze

By Rev. Mark Creech Christian Action League July 27, 2021 If you’ve been to Cracker Barrel lately, you might have noticed something new and different on the menu – alcohol. Recently, my wife Kim and I went to Cracker Barrel and enjoyed a wonderful home-cooked-style meal. Afterward, Kim asked for a slice of apple pie. […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: apple pie, CDC, Cracker Barrel, Rev. Mark Creech, VeryWellMind.com

New Study Says More Than 100,000 Cases of Cancer in 2020 Attributable to Alcohol Consumption

By Pamela Blume Christian Action League July 23, 2021 Another study on the ill-effects of alcohol on health has been published. An online journal, MedPageToday, referenced and linked to a study reported in an article in The Lancet Oncology by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and its Cancer Surveillance Branch in Lyon, France. […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: alcohol consumption, alcohol deaths, ASCO, cancer, covid, Dr. Amy C Justice, Harriett Rumgay, MedPageToday, Pamela Blume, The Lancet Oncology

CAL Ex. Dir. Issues Statement About Forsyth Commissioners’ Decision Not to Wet County

By CAL Staff Christian Action League June 28, 2021 The Christian Action League of North Carolina has learned that Forsyth County Commissioners recently rejected a motion to approve the sale of mixed drinks throughout the county by a slim majority. During the Commissioners meeting last Thursday, Gordon Watkins, Forsyth County attorney, said North Carolina law […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: 18B 603 Provision D-1, Ashleigh Sloop, county commissioners, Forsyth Co., Gordon Watkins, liquor-by-the-drink, mixed drinks, Rev. Mark Creech, Westend Winery and Brewery, wet county, Winston-Salem Journal

CAL: URGENT ACTION ALERT VIDEO Watch: More Than ‘Wheels on the Bus’

By CAL Staff June 22, 2021 When airlines are banning alcohol sales on flights because of violent incidents, it seems laughable, even absurd, that legislation would be taken up in the North Carolina Senate to allow for buses to begin selling alcoholic beverages. Yet it’s true. It’s the ridiculousness, as well as the seriousness of […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: CAL video, HB 693, Rev. Mark Creech

Efforts to Loosen Alcohol Controls Proposed and Advancing

By Hunter Hines Christian Action League May 19, 2021 The Christian Action League has a long and rich heritage of addressing alcohol policy in the Tar Heel state. It’s a signature issue for the organization. Every year the League urges lawmakers to balance their commitment to the industry with an earnest desire to protect public […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: ABC, ABC Omnibus Legislation, breweries, Common Carrier ABC Permit, distilleries, growler, HB 693, HB 890, HUnter Hines, mixed beverages, Modernize ABC Controls, NC Spirituous Liquor Council, Rev. Mark Creech, SB 453

House ABC Committee Gives Thumbs-up to ‘Bars on Wheels’

By L.A. Williams Christian Action League May 6, 2021 The House Alcoholic Beverage Control Committee gave a thumbs-up to House Bill 693 – Common Carriers ABC Permit this week, paving the way for some buses to become “bars on wheels.” But the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, warned lawmakers they […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: ABC Committee, Andy Ellen, Bars on Wheels, charter buses, HB 693, HB 781, L.A. Williams, NC Retail Merchants Association, party bus, Rep. Tim Moffitt, Rev. Mark Creech

Experts Believe Pandemic-fueled Alcohol Abuse is Triggering a Wave of Hospitalizations

By Eli Cahan Kaiser Health News April 27, 2021 Alcoholism-related liver disease was a growing problem even before the pandemic, as 15 million people suffer with the condition around the country, and as hospitalizations have doubled over the past decade. But the pandemic has dramatically added to the toll. Although national figures are not available, […]

Filed Under: Alcohol, Featured Tagged With: alcohol, COVID-19, Dr. Brian Lee, Dr. Haripriya Maddur, Dr. Jessica Mellinger, Dr. Raymond Chung, Eli Cahan, Kaiser Health News, liver disease, pandemic

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