Errol Castens reports that the state has approved Oxford’s Sunday ordinance:
Oxford residents and visitors will be able to have a glass of wine with brunch or dinner on certain Sundays, starting with Mother’s Day.
Mayor George “Pat” Patterson received notice Monday afternoon that the Mississippi Department of Revenue has approved Oxford’s request to legalize restaurant sales of wine and liquor on Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, the Sundays nearest University of Mississippi football games and, when they fall on Sunday, Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve as well.
Read more in Tuesday’s Daily Journal
The Betty Davis stays in business.
Why are blue laws still tolerated? To me they seem to violate the establishment clause.
Why’d they leave out DoubleDecker or the baseball game weekends? Or the Spring Game? Geeesh. And to think they were ohhhhhhhh so close to actually getting into the late 20th century by changing the law at all.
Great points, Razor.
Who supports limited sales, anyway?
I mean, it seems to me that either a person is FOR alcohol sales or AGAINST them. I’ve never understood the SOMETIMES argument. If someone has a reasonable justification for this, I’d love to hear it.
talk to our aldermen (and alderwoman), jlw. They seem to think this position works. Seems to me it’s literally cutting the baby in half. But (scary thought) I guess we take what we can get..
Why did they leave out Double Decker? For the same reason naming an Oxford festival after a bus was tolerated. I liked the job Richard Howorth did, but generally Oxford has progressed past the people in Oxford city government.
The police department has improved dramatically, but I think that has much more to do with Mike Martin than anyone in Oxford city hall.
Soggy Sweat got it right:
http://www.rdrop.com/users/jimka/whisky.html
Well, if Jesus comes back to the Christians on Sunday, now he can have his glass of wine. Got to love the Baptists!
Well only if he comes back on selected Sundays Bill.
The city fathers and mothers of Oxford have rightly determined that if Oxfordonians could drink a glass of wine on any Sunday they choose, there would be chaos! Pandemonium in the streets! Wild fornication! Debauchery and depredation!
We should all be thankful that our government protects us from the evils of Chardonnay. On some Sundays.
Complete Sunday sales would have passed except that Mayor Patterson stated he would veto any such measure. The occasional Sunday sales was the compromise they came up with. It’s ridiculous that we don’t have Sunday sales here, but so are the state laws capping beer alcohol content at 5% ABW and making homebrewing beer illegal.
If you would like to see these laws changed, visit Raise Your Pints Mississippi
By the way, there are plenty of good, hardworking, sensible people in City government if you take the time to talk to them instead of criticizing anonymously, and by the ones in City government, I don’t mean the (same) ones elected every 4 years…
there are plenty of good, hardworking, sensible people in City government …
Amen to that. Oxford is blessed with a solid cadre of city employees in all city agencies. God bless ‘em. This little town functions more in spite of city government than because of it.
Take our aldermen …. Please, take them. They act as though it’s 1954 (pre Elvis) and they’re going to protect us all from ducktail haircuts, horseshoe taps on our shoes, and the Devil’s music. I don’t think anyone much over 45 has any business holding elective office in a college town such as ours.
Why did the they allow it on Mother’s Day but not Father’s Day? Exactly what are they trying to say about Oxonian mothers?
Alan:
“Exactly what are they trying to say about Oxonian mothers?”
That Mothers may need a drink more than Fathers?
I have no idea
They just forgot the Oxonian Fathers. Shame on them. On the other hand maybe they thought that Oxford families would still be paying for the Mother’s Day blowout. See they are looking out for Oxonians just like Ben said.
Perhaps it’s in recognition of the fact that many Oxonian mothers would never have become mothers without alcohol.
Mother’s Day is one of the two largest “going out to eat” holidays in the US. Father’s Day isn’t. I suspect that is the difference.