Letter From Lubbock
High Plains Snifter
After 118 years without a liquor store inside their city’s limits, Lubbockites are on the verge of voting with their thirst.
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11 comments
Sunday, May 10th, 2009, 5:55 pm
Marty says:
The people have SPOKEN! 64 percent in favor of alcohol sales countywide!!!
Friday, May 8th, 2009, 7:21 am
Amber says:
I’m a college student here in lubbock, my 21st birthday also happens to be may 9th. Also i’m a church going baptist. I personally think not having liquor sales inside city limits is stupid! There is not a week that goes by that I dont watch the news and hear about someone dying in a drunk driving accident. If people could walk a block to a conveinace store to get their beer, instead of getting into their cars drunk, and driving all the way out to the strip, less people will be killed. Thats just a statistical fact. It does not matter what your releagion is! No one is forcing you to go buy a bottle of jack. I keep hearing people say "but its unchristian to drink!" then why did jesus turn water into wine? or why did he give it to his apostles and say that this wine was his blood? and no matter what that pastor says, i’m pretty much sure that they didnt have the choice of unfermented wine back then. oh and i agree JoAnn Mr. O’hair has tried to twist the truth, to suit his own personal agenda one too many times. You can trust a rattler before you can trust that man!
Monday, May 4th, 2009, 2:40 pm
Voice of Raider Alley says:
Funny video about the vote. http://vimeo.com/4450244
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, 2:31 pm
David says:
I graduated from TTU in 1984 and I can still remember with a smile on my face the Strip, blues laws which prevented me from buying ’tools’ (a skillet) on Sunday and other strange bible belt laws & customs. If I still lived in Lubbock I would vote yes and move the liquor stores in town.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009, 7:40 pm
barrett says:
As a native of Amarillo and a graduate of Texas Tech, I have to admit that I’m not sure what the slam on Amarillo was supposed to accomplish. Amarillo has character at least while Lubbock....well, is what it is? Lubbock was great, I truly had a great experience there in my 4 years, and now living in Houston often miss many many things about that part of our great state. I do however think that in order for Texas Tech to move closer to a tier one status, they need to have all the help they can get from the city. Lets face it, there’s a reason it’s hard to recruit kids to Tech, the town isn’t the draw whatsoever. So anything that the city can do to improve their image and get with the times will be a huge help.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009, 5:08 pm
JoAnn says:
No one should take what Mr. O’hair says seriously. Every time that white haired, forked tongue devil is on the news in Lubbock a lie seems to pop out of his mouth. Almost every statement he espouses as the truth about alcohol sales has been proven to be false. He has hurt his campaign more that he has helped it. Maybe that was his motive all along, he may have been a plant for the folks wanting alcohol sales in Lubbock. Whatever his motive, he reminds me of nothing more than a snake-oil salesman.
Monday, April 27th, 2009, 10:20 am
Mike says:
Lubbock sucks eggs!
Saturday, April 25th, 2009, 2:26 pm
Marty says:
Last year Lubbock’s employment growth rate was 0.8%. Amarillo’s was 1.0%.
Unemployment in Amarillo last year was 4.0%; in Lubbock it was 4.1%
Economic Modeling Specialists Inc predicts that the population of the Amarillo metropolitan statistical area, consisting of Armstrong, Carson, Potter and Randall counties, will rise by 12.4 percent by 2012 outpacing the state, while Lubbock County will see more moderate growth of 5.2 percent.
Maybe Lubbock SHOULD look more like Amarillo.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009, 8:31 pm
Pratt on Texas says:
The comment about Amarillo was silly. Those living on the Golden Spread should know that all in Lubbock, or the South Plains, do not think poorly of you, or Amarillo.
Cheers!
Robert Pratt, Pratt on Texas
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009, 3:24 pm
Bret says:
Mr. O’Hair, I can agree with you that underage drinking is a valid concern. However; I do not agree with your snide comment about Amarillo. I have resided in Amarillo longer, but lived in Lubbock long enough to know this: These are both great cities where some of the most wonderful people in Texas live. But don’t belittle your neighbors to the north just because our liquor stores are not ’hidden’ on the outskirts of town. You already have liquor stores; ya’ll are really just voting on whether or not you want to save on gas by moving them in town.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009, 12:18 pm
Monica says:
We sure wouldn’t want anybody to be like us heathen Amarilloans running around Texas.
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