by KYW's Tony Romeo
The chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board says the agency is considering mobile state stores to serve the state’s most sparsely populated areas.
LCB chairman PJ Stapleton says it’s an idea that’s only in the preliminary discussion stage. But he told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the agency is looking at the feasibility of mobile state stores to serve rural areas of Pennsylvania:
“…sort of like the mobile libraries we used to have when I was a kid growing up. And I don’t know that that’s the answer, either.”
Senator Sean Logan of Allegheny County, the ranking Democrat on the Law and Justice Committee, which has oversight of LCB issues, says it’s an idea that doesn’t sit well with him at first blush:
“There’s just too many questions, again, with the security, whose employees. I’m not quite sure we have to get to the point of mobilized units to serve alcohol.”
The LCB chairman says the agency is trying to determine if the concept would even be allowed under state law.
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