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TERMS OF SERVICE: NEW REPEAL

Written by Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

As of today, Boston is the only city in Massachusetts that cannot decide for itself how many liquor licenses shall be in circulation within its borders.

A MAVERICK APPROACH TO LIQUOR LICENSING

Written by Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

This is what happens when you give the neighborhood what it needs

LIQUOR LICENSE UPDATE: THE THIRSTY GAMES CONTINUE

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After failed attempt to give Boston control of licenses, liquor laws still stuck in last century

THE THIRSTY GAMES: ROUND II – AN EXPLORATION INTO THE QUESTIONABLE FUTURE OF BOSTON’S MODERN PROHIBITION

Written by Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Has the city’s complicated, problematic, and historically corrupt liquor licensing process guaranteed that Boston will never have a normal or equitable social life? Could lifting the cap on the number of licenses fix it?

THE THIRSTY GAMES: ROUND I – AN EXPLORATION INTO THE SORDID HISTORY OF BOSTON’S MODERN PROHIBITION

Written by Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Boston’s liquor licensing quota was born out of elitism and has fostered a poisonous disparity over the past century. Can lifting the cap break the cycle?

THE FIGHT CONTINUES FOR LIQUOR LICENSES IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR

Written by Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

The Hub’s nightlife-less squares, at least for the time being, will remain as boozeless as they’ve been for decades.