
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.
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Written by HALEY HAMILTON 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.
Written by KAREN MORALES Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction
This is what happens when you give the neighborhood what it needs
Written by HALEY HAMILTON Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
After failed attempt to give Boston control of licenses, liquor laws still stuck in last century
Written by HALEY HAMILTON 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?
Written by HALEY HAMILTON 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?
Written by CHRIS FARAONE 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.