{"id":3566,"date":"2026-02-26T22:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:55:27","slug":"politicizing-liquor-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/politicizing-liquor-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicizing liquor licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026 politics 101: Politicizing liquor licenses, and the renewal of licenses, as a way to control businesses that do something that state\/local governments find displeasing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does this also sound like the plot of a dystopian film? Maybe, or maybe officials don\u2019t like that hotels are housing ICE and that issue arises during a liquor permit renewal hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minneapolis-city-council-liquor-license-hotels-ice-agents\/601583286\">Minneapolis Star Tribune | Should Minneapolis deny liquor licenses to hotels that housed ICE agents? City Council debates it.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/quote\/pulling-or-threatening-liquor-licenses-without-clear-cause-would-be-reckless-and-devastating-to-working-people\">Governing | \u201cPulling or threatening liquor licenses without clear cause would be reckless and devastating to working people.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 politics 101: Politicizing liquor licenses, and the renewal of licenses, as a way to control businesses that do something that state\/local governments find displeasing.&nbsp; Does this also sound like the plot of a dystopian film? Maybe, or maybe officials don\u2019t like that hotels are housing ICE and that issue arises during a liquor permit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3576,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}