Lawmakers debate liquor sales, contract

The state is looking to renegotiate its liquor distribution contract to help fill a $20 million hole in the 2013 state budget and stem losses resulting from Maine consumers' purchase of liquor across the border in New Hampshire.
The state has estimated that bar owners and others in Maine are buying as much as 584,000 cases of liquor in New Hampshire a year and reselling it in Maine, costing the state between $4 million and $11 million a year, acc ...