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...Along with New Year's Eve and Mother's Day, Valentine's Day is one of the most profitable days of the year for dining establishments; seven other calendar days, including Super Bowl Sunday, have already been granted blue-law exemptions in some states. "We felt like Valentine's Day had just been overlooked," says Missouri State Representative Bill Deeken. In January, Deeken proposed "Love Legislation" that would allow restaurants and bars that lacked annual Sunday liquor licenses to be open and sell alcohol on Valentine's Day. Rob Agee, a Lohman...
...examples go on. A request for allowing restaurants to sell alcohol this Valentine's Day in Oxford, Miss., was rejected without comment. In Connecticut, which is the only state in New England to still have a blue law prohibiting Sunday alcohol sales, mayors of the state's three largest cities petitioned unsuccessfully to have the law repealed - citing a 2009 study that suggested Connecticut was losing millions in tax revenue to its neighbors...
...intense high-level negotiations the two governments agreed that UBS would provide the names of 4,450 Americans with the largest undisclosed Swiss bank accounts. But no sooner was the ink dry on that deal than the Swiss courts ruled that no such disclosures could be made under Swiss law...
...opening-day death was eerily reminiscent of what transpired on the first day of competition at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, when a deranged recluse murdered the father-in-law of the U.S. volleyball team's coach Hugh McCutcheon, setting an early pall over the events...
...government is against the proposal because cantons are already required by law to have a special office dealing with animal abuse, which it deems protection enough. Farmers associations and pet breeders are also opposed to the initiative, fearing greater scrutiny of their activities. A group called No to the Useless Animal Lawyers' Initiative has been set up to urge voters to reject the proposal...