The Minnesota legislature passed a budget bill that, among other things, allows the city of St. Cloud to issue a liquor license to St. Cloud State University for its Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.
Under former rules, which applied to all Minnesota state colleges and universities, the university had been limited to alcohol sales at campus events once every 30 days. There was a big brouhaha about a provision in the bill allowing Sunday liquor sales statewide, but that was striped from the bill before passage.