Barred in DC, a blog covering the area's bar scene, reports that Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing to change the city's liquor laws to make to-go cocktail sales permanent (probably with a food-purchase requirement) while expanding the hours during which off-premise liquor sales are allowed. To-go drinks were initially allowed on a temporary, emergency basis. Under proposed changes in a recent Fiscal Impact Statement, those emergency rules would be made permanent. In some ways, it's fitting for an industry that has found itself in what feels like a permanent emergency.

Nor is Bowser the only politician talking about permanently extending the new liquor regime. After extending the state's to-go allowances, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted last month that he might just let the new rules stay in place forever.