If you haven't seen the media coverage of the hearings, I encourage you to check it out, write a letter-to-the editor, comment on the newspaper's website, and send the articles on to your friends and family. Also, encourage the editorial board of your local paper to endorse HB 1260, the direct wine shipping bill.

Today the direct shipping legislation was endorsed by the Baltimore Sun ("Special Delivery," Feb. 20, 2008).

Yesterday we received coverage in:

The Washington Post ("Bill Allows Shipment of Wine To, From State," p. B6) and
The Baltimore Sun ("Wine Shipping Bill Gets House Hearing").

We also got covered by ABC-2 (WMAR) in Baltimore and the DCist blog.

Yesterday I was also on WBAL's Shari Elliker Show for over a half-an-hour to discuss the direct shipping legislation and why grocery stores in Maryland can't sell beer and wine.