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Grant Kentucky: Dry County

Host Bob Edwards talks to Jamie Baker-Nantz, Editor of the Grant County News about a measure on the Grant County, Kentucky ballot that would allow alcohol to be sold in the county. Yesterday, voters in Grant County defeated a referendum that would have ended the ban on the sale of alcohol that has been in effect since the original prohibition laws were passed in the 1930s.

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