Marijuana applicants are often desperate to lock up space, willing to bid up rates well over market value in order to price out a rival.
NEWS+OPINIONS
MANCHESTER DIVIDED: AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY WALKS INTO A NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR, PROVIDES DIFFERENT KIND OF PRIMARY COVERAGE
Are you tired of the same horse race political coverage? Are you sick of hearing about how much money the candidates raised? Do you want coverage to reflect more state and local issues?
A NOTE ON THE CURRENT ANTI-WAR PROTESTS
Following the US assassination of a high-ranking Iranian commander
BOSTON: IT SUCKS LESS THAN DETROIT
A look at the Hub’s points of relative pride
GUEST OPINION: IF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FORCES US TO LEAVE, THAT WOULD MEAN CERTAIN DANGER
We entered the workforce, married, and had children. And now, after nearly two decades, the White House has decided to force us out.
REST IN YEAST (FOR NOW AT LEAST): A LANDMARK BAKERY SAYS GOODBYE TO ITS CAMBERVILLE HOME
Two days before New Year’s Eve, the company’s 12 staffers woke up unemployed. Still, in hope of reinventing their venture somewhere else, Andrew and Greta are taking everything with them
CHUCK TURNER, 1940-2019
In the long relay race of oppressed communities and the global working class, Chuck Turner picked up the baton in the 1960s as a young activist in the Northern Student Movement (a wing of the civil rights movement). By Christmas Day 2019 when he walked on, that beginning had been eclipsed by a series of powerful base-building projects—many that at once challenged the ruling class while creatively empowering the excluded and the exploited.
THE CHILL ZONE: CUMBERLAND FARMS COULD BLOW UP THE MASS CANNABIS MARKET IN 2020
With its massive network, Cumberland Farms apparently wants to sell more alcoholic beverages and has successfully placed a question on the 2020 ballot that could lift the state’s cap on the number of liquor licenses that can be owned by a single retailer, and also forge a new class of beer and wine license for food stores
READER INPUT: WHAT’S WRONG WITH BOSTON?
We were happy to receive several dozen responses—many of which echoed each other, one of which was a poem, and some of which hit on subjects that we don’t think or write about enough around here.
BOSTONIANS NEED TO STEP UP
As the old saying goes, democracy is not a spectator sport