At the same meeting, he proposed bringing back a happy hour on drinks as one step in the process of helping the state “get our groove back,” while making it more “alluring” and ...

You may soon have some medical debt wiped from your credit report: Here’s why Rhode Island has also banned happy hour since the 1980s. A bill was introduced in January that would allow ...

in the early 1980s. While the relationship between anti-happy hour legislation and adverse effects of alcohol is unclear, according to the National Institute of Health, multiple studies have ...

Fast forward to the early 1980s, when lobbying group Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) enlisted then-President Ronald Reagan in a national push for tighter alcohol laws. State-level happy hour bans ...

“Happy hour isn’t a panacea,” Cyr said in an interview ... as a community safeguard when they were introduced in the 1980s, but there are now stricter penalties on drunk driving and tougher ...

revived the offering of those discounted specials for Hoosiers and lifted a ban that had been in place since the mid-1980s. Retailers are still deciding what effect happy hour is having on their ...