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If you drive drunk tomorrow night, your name could go viral for all the wrong reasons.

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That's because law enforcement is planning to publish the names of folks they arrest during the state's largest DWI patrol on Twitter along with the hashtag, #May10DWI.

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cover photo by Tony Nelson

New owners took over the CC Club on May 1, and to mark the changing of the guard, we talked to CC regulars past and present for our most recent cover story. Along with their yarns about record-release parties and new Replacements singles in the juke, we also heard an earful on how, as Tom Arnold put it, the bar "was the one place you could get drug dealers to actually come."

Curious if the cops have ever had to bust the CC Club bathroom -- or break up bar fights, or throw out drunk punks -- we asked the Minneapolis Police Department for all the incident reports at 2600 Lyndale Ave. S., the bar's address. We got back all their digital files, which date to 1990.

Between the earliest computerized incident, November 18, 1990, and the most recent, March 24, 2013, police got 117 other calls about the bar. Here's how they broke down.

See Also:
- Cover: Here Comes a Regular: An Oral History of the CC Club
- An oral history of the CC Club jukebox
- Tom Arnold on the CC Club


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One veteran defense attorney told KARE, "This is by far and away the most fundamental ruling in DWI law since I've been practicing,"

Some defense attorneys think a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued Wednesday could affect thousands of pending DWI cases here in Minnesota.

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The 8-1 ruling held that in most situations, law enforcement officers cannot force a drunk-driving suspect to submit to a blood alcohol test without obtaining a search warrant first. Currently, in Minnesota, it's illegal for suspects to refuse to submit to a blood test, warrant or no.

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If House DFLers have their way, trips to the liquor store and bars will soon become more expensive.

Today, House DFLers unveiled their proposed tax bill, and it's bad news for those of you who like to drink.

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House DFLers are proposing the first increase in the state's liquor tax in years. It'd add roughly seven cents to the cost of a pint, 84 cents on a 12er, 47 cents on a bottle of wine, and $1.58 on bottles of liquor.

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Robert Rasset (left)

It raises the question -- can a 2-year-old be charged with public intoxication?

Robert Rasset faces a child endangerment charge after his 2-year-old son was found wandering near 15th Street and Florence Street in Hastings yesterday afternoon with an open Mike Hard's Lemonade in his little hand.

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The boy, in fact, was double-fisting -- as KMSP reports, police found the child holding an open bottle of Mike's in one hand and an unopened one in the other.

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Image by Tatiana Craine

Despite selling nearly a million bucks worth of booze, the U still ended up in the red.

Remember earlier this year when the University of Minnesota was being criticized by the Wall Street Journal and legislature for having lost control of its spending? If the latest news is any indication, it looks like not much has changed the past couple months.

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Two weeks after a U of M official told the legislature the school made $16,000 from booze sales during football games last season at TCF Bank stadium, an AP investigation revealed the school actually lost just under $16,000 despite selling more than $900,000 of beer and wine.

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Clark's proposal would almost certainly increase the cost of tippin' one back, which got us thinking: Isn't there some sort of tax loophole we could close instead?

Rep. Karen Clark, D-Minneapolis, is one half of the tandem leading the push for marriage equality. She's also leading the push to increase taxes on beer, wine, and liquor.

SEE ALSO: Sunday liquor sales seem to be dead on arrival yet again

Yesterday, Clark's proposal to increase taxes on 31-gallon barrels of beer from $4.60 to $16.17 got a hearing with the House Taxes Committee. No vote was taken, but the communications director for the DFL House caucus says Clark's proposal could still be included in this year's omnibus liquor bill.

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Image by Tatiana Craine -- bottles photo from stevendepolo's Flickr

Senator Reinert's Sunday liquor sales bill appears dead on arrival.

Yesterday, the Senate Commerce Committee held a brief hearing on a bill introduced by Sen. Roger Reinert, D-Duluth, that would legalize Sunday liquor sales.

SEE ALSO: Study: Sunday liquor sales would boost state revenue

Polling shows Minnesotans support Sunday sales by a two-to-one margin, yet the latest effort to eliminate the state's most notorious blue law seems just as doomed as previous ones.

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Gunderson plans to stay on as mayor, and apparently still has the City Council's support.

After he was involved in a one-car wreck and arrested for DUI on Saturday afternoon, Sauk Rapids Mayor Brad Gunderson curiously wasn't booked into Benton County Jail.

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The reason? Gunderson was so drunk that jail officials were concerned they couldn't ensure his safety under their watch and wanted him to get medical treatment first.

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Insult to injury: Out of the hospital, Brodkorb might face a drunk driving charge.

-- Original post from morning of February 8; update at bottom --

Up until 2005, Michael Brodkorb wouldn't have been doing anything illegal by driving around with a .10 blood-alcohol level in Minnesota. But now, he could face a drunken driving charge in connection with the one-car accident that left him in critical condition last month.

SEE ALSO: Michael Brodkorb's wife updates his condition

Yesterday, the State Patrol announced that Brodkorb's BAL was just over the legal limit. Whether a criminal charge is forthcoming is now up to the Lilydale City Attorney.

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