IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Iowa City city council will consider a ban on happy hours at a meeting next month.
The ordinance comes amid a wide-ranging examination of the city's take on alcohol.
The happy-hour ban would require any bar or restaurant with a liquor license or beer or wine permits to have a written schedule of prices -- filed with the city clerk -- in effect for at least a week, which means drink prices couldn't change by the day or hour.
The city has been considering banning price specials, and the council has said it wants to address underage drinking and binge drinking.
Previous steps, like outlawing two-for-one specials, have been sidestepped -- instead of charging $2 for two beers, bars could drop the price of each beer to $1.
The council meets on Jan. 5.
Iowa City considers ban on happy hour
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Silly laws have never stopped binge drinkers or underage drinkers. 
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As predicted.....
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Next they're gonna ban dancing.... 
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Chris Penn is dead so there is really no reason to do so now.AZGrizFan wrote:Next they're gonna ban dancing....
Seriously though how fucking far are we gonna let this shit go? That is it for me, I'm with Appa from now on and voting against any incumbent, I don't care if it's my brother I'm voting against.
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Iowa City and Johnson County are full of kooky liberals and socialists and this is par for the course for their mentality. I'm not sure this would be even be legal. I think a bar owner could appeal to the state, which ultimately issues the license, and get the stipulation about the pricing overturned.
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Welcome to North Carolina....what is this "Happy Hour" you speak of?....
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Appaholic wrote:Welcome to North Carolina....what is this "Happy Hour" you speak of?....
Yeah, happy hour has been banned here for years. And not by liberal, nanny stater's. You can have drink specials, but they have to be for the entire day.
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Banned by conservative, religious do-gooders?AshevilleApp wrote:Appaholic wrote:Welcome to North Carolina....what is this "Happy Hour" you speak of?....
Yeah, happy hour has been banned here for years. And not by liberal, nanny stater's. You can have drink specials, but they have to be for the entire day.
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And MADD.dbackjon wrote:Banned by conservative, religious do-gooders?AshevilleApp wrote:
Yeah, happy hour has been banned here for years. And not by liberal, nanny stater's. You can have drink specials, but they have to be for the entire day.
Not a very liberal state outside of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Asheville.
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This is usually done by the PC police, made up of Donks and Conks that are big brother.dbackjon wrote:Banned by conservative, religious do-gooders?AshevilleApp wrote:
Yeah, happy hour has been banned here for years. And not by liberal, nanny stater's. You can have drink specials, but they have to be for the entire day.
Just like the Gov of NY taxing Soda with sugar.
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I will think of you when I hit up Happy Hour, actually it is 2 hours, tonight Appa.Appaholic wrote:Welcome to North Carolina....what is this "Happy Hour" you speak of?....
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