The April 1, 2002 date is the effective date of the new law in Illinois. It may well already be in effect in Minnesota; we down here in Illinois often lag behind most other states in any important new developments that might, God forbid, improve our health, safety, or well-being. Illinois is, after all, the state where the only requirement to get a truck driver's license is a bit of cash donated to the Governor's reelection fund, so an Illinois-Licensed truck driver who could not drive mashed that minivanload of Chicago kids a few years back on I-94 near the Milwaukee airport. That one has already cost our current governor his job, but there's new crooks standing in line to take his job, so we need not worry about bothersome things like real reform. (Do I sound just a little bitter about Illinois politics and our unending political scandals? Naw, couldn't be. But at least our legislature here is owned by the wholesale liquor lobby, which means we have a spectacular and almost open system of kickbacks and monopolies involving liquor distribution, but relatively low liquor taxes and very few silly rules about what you can sell or brew where or when, or about criminalizing the possesion of beer kegs. Still, I think I'd trade our open crooks for your perpetual-foot-in-mouth rassler any day.) Roger Deschner Listmeister, Chicago Beer Society rogerd(a)uic.edu ==== "Now and then an innocent person is sent to the legislature." ===== On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Crist, Jonathan wrote: