liquor on sunday; douglas county voters
Some cities in Kansas have approved Sunday liquor sales.
This is something of a curiosity to visitors from out-of-state, as few other states (the only other one that I know of is Indiana, a state I also lived in) ban the sale of liquor on Sunday. There are still towns and counties in Kansas that ban the sale of liquor entirely (the ones I know about are the city of Satanta and Pratt County, both in southwestern Kansas — in Satanta you can buy beer, but Pratt County is dry).
Anyway, I think this is a good thing, as Kansas businesses lose a great deal of money to Missouri due to the ban. It was challenged about a year and a half ago, and the Wyandotte County (Kansas City) District Court ruled that towns and counties can “opt out” and permit Sunday liquor sales after Wyandotte County residents voted to challenge the ban. The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the challenge, and voters in Olathe, Shawnee, Gardner, and Edgerton (all part of the Kansas City metropolitan area) voted to permit Sunday sales.
Also, the precinct-by-precinct breakdown of who voted for whom in Lawrence is out, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone who is familiar with Lawrence: the east side, which is in the Kansas 3rd and includes most of the KU campus, went entirely for Kerry and the Democrats; the far-west side, which consists of the Alvamar Country Club and the new, affluent areas, went for Bush and the Republicans. All but two of the 18 precincts outside of Lawrence (including all four in my hometown) went for Bush. Four of the 18 went for Democratic House candidates.
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