A slight crack in the liquor industry coalition could prove just enough of a difference to make room for Sunday growlers.

The first two weeks of the 2015 session saw more than 200 bills introduced in the House and more than 150 in the Senate.

Minnesotans won’t be purchasing that growler of craft beer on Sunday afternoons any time soon – at least, those who are not willing to drive ...

The proposal, offered by DFL Rep. Tina Liebling as an amendment to a broader liquor bill on Wednesday, would have also allowed liquor sales on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Eve. But the House defeated the amendment down on 106-21 vote, one of the widest margins of defeat for the perennial issue in years.

For many lobbyists, working the Legislature is as much about the bills they are able to stop as the bills they are able to pass. That’s why Friday’s final deadline for policy measures to pass through committees in both chambers will be cause for either celebration or relief for Minnesota’s Capitol lobbying corps.

John Moore doesn't want to move his business to Wisconsin. The owner of Barley John's Brew Pub, which has operated in New Brighton for a dozen years, would prefer to expand in Minnesota.

Not many pieces of legislation generate their own Facebook fan pages. But Sen. Richard Cohen's bill to allow liquor sales on Sundays has accumulated more than 3,100 fans on the social networking site. The bill would also permit sales of intoxicating beverages on Thanksgiving

Removing a restriction on Sunday retail liquor sales that has been part of Minnesota law since Prohibition could generate as much as $10.6 million a year in new tax revenues for the cash-strapped state, according to an analysis by a national liquor trade association.

Allowing liquor stores to sell on Sundays pushed Colorado's alcohol tax revenues 6 percent higher in the first year that such sales were legal, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS).

A national group with a stake in allowing Minnesota liquor stores to open for business on Sundays is holding up Colorado as an example of success, a year after the state approved Sunday liquor sales.