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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

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THE THIRSTY GAINS: WITH LATEST MOVE, PRESSLEY MAY FINALLY DENT LIQUOR LICENSE DISPARITY

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted March 28, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Terms of Service

The vast majority of those 153 licenses will be restricted to seven historically underserved Boston neighborhoods: Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill and East Boston.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Terms of Service Tagged With: alcohol, Ayanna Pressley, BINJ, Boston, Boston City Council, Dorchester, east boston, home-rule petition, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, liquor licenses, Massachusetts, Mattapan, Mission Hill, Roxbury, Thirsty Games

A RECKONING FOR RESTAURANTS IN BOSTON AND EVERYWHERE

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted November 21, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, Terms of Service

This is what happens when you mess with the Mass service industry

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, Terms of Service Tagged With: alcohol, bartenders, Boston, Haley Hamilton, Juliet, liquor licenses, Massachusetts, MRA, NRA, restaurant association, sexual harassment, Terms of Service, Thirsty Games

TERMS OF SERVICE: AGREEING WITH THE OTHER NRA

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted November 7, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Terms of Service

Almost every new restaurant built in Boston is enormous. The number of seats is outrageous, the number of servers needed to cover them ridiculous.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Terms of Service Tagged With: alcohol, bartenders, Boston, Haley Hamilton, liquor licenses, Massachusetts, MRA, NRA, restaurant association, Terms of Service, Thirsty Games

SOMETHING POSITIVE (FOR CHANGE)

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 28, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

I have been wanting to share thoughts along these lines for weeks now, but it’s never the right time. Either white supremacists are rumored to be coming into Boston, or President Not-See himself says something insanely hurtful or ignorant. Or both.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: Boston youth, Dear Reader, liquor licenses, Mattapan, TD Garden, Transformative Culture Project, young people

TERMS OF SERVICE: STILL THIRSTY

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted August 28, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Drinks, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

If you think Boston has enough liquor licenses, you must live in a neighborhood that has a bunch.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Drinks, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ABCC, Ayanna Pressley, Back Bat, BLB, Boston Globe, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Dianne Wilkerson, Haley Hamilton, liquor licenses, Mattapan, Roxbury, South Boston waterfront, Terms of Service, The Thirsty Games

TERMS OF SERVICE: NEW REPEAL

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted November 30, 2016 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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 1933, Ayanna Pressley, Bars, BINJ, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Licensing Board, Haley Hamilton, liquor license disparity, liquor licenses, Repeal Day, Restaurants, Roxbury, service industry, Terms of Service, The Hunger Games

A MAVERICK APPROACH TO LIQUOR LICENSING

Written by KAREN MORALES Posted September 8, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

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

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Ayanna Pressley, Beacon Hill, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Licensing Board, development, east boston, eastie, Epicenter Community, equity, gentrification, Haley Hamilton, home-rule petition, Karen Morales, liquor license disparity, liquor licenses, Maverick Marketplace Cafe, Maverick Square, The Thirsty Games, Von Clauss

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

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted March 22, 2016 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?

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: BLB, Boston, Boston Licensing Board, Charlie Baker, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Dianne Wilkerson, Dudley Dough, Dudley Square, Epicenter Community, Erin Anderson, Future Boston, Hyde Park, liquor licenses, Malia Lazu, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, Mission Hill, Mitt Romney, Non-fiction Tagged With: ABCC, North End, Ron Wilburn, Roslindale, Roxbury, Seven Star Bistro, south end

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

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted March 17, 2016 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?

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: ABCC, BLB, Boston, Boston Licensing Board, Charlie Baker, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Dianne Wilkerson, Dudley Dough, Dudley Square, Epicenter Community, Future Boston, Hyde Park, liquor licenses, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, Mission Hill, Mitt Romney, North End, Ron Wilburn, Roxbury, south end

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