Governor Healy adds liquor licenses.

Dennis in MA said:
I've got a bigger question: Why do we need liquor LICENSES in 2024???? If you wanna go inspect, have at it. But limiting the lic's overall is just stupid and is born by existing merchants who dont' want competition.

Same with hack licenses. "Oooh, there are only so many cabs!" Then Uber comes along and blows it up.

Maybe someoen can come along and create a "brew at your table beer" system and F the liquor boards completely. LOL
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Well that's certainly a valid question... I wouldn't fight you on any of that.
 
MisterHappy said:
She is not worried about lawful gun owners, and neither is the state legislature.

They are worried about voters, and the votes that they provide. To get votes, one must give something - take away gunz, then crime will go away, and you'll be happy (if not, well, the people in the high-crime areas that are not criminals, don't have them, so they're not affected). Allow more booze sellers, it's "Look, more local restaurants, and clubs, so you can get hammered, and not realize that the commiewealth is why you need to get hammered, in the first place. Also, more taxes and fees, because .gov wants to grow, too.

So, you see, it's pandering to her (their) audience. Bread and circuses is a tried and true method of politics.
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Boston is really a mediocre city...id take the "city" of 17000 with 23 bars in 2 blocks over Boston
 
The number of liquor licenses in Boston is capped by state legislation, for some ridiculous reason. As a result, liquor licenses in Boston are bought and sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The legislature should have simply removed the cap entirely and left it up to the city. But, of course, they couldn’t give up that power. It’s ridiculous.

And, for the record, I don’t drink. I just don’t think the state government should be involved in the city’s decisions about liquor licenses.
 
M1911 said:
It depends upon what you are looking for. If you need tertiary medical care, you aren’t going to find it in a city of 17,000.
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I'm an hour outside of atl... there is a hospital here..if needed I'll be fine and get tranport between the 2.

But realitiscally you go once a month...once every 2? Even if you havr a serious condition for the most part.
 
jkelly1229 said:
I'm an hour outside of atl... there is a hospital here..if needed I'll be fine and get tranport between the 2.

But realitiscally you go once a month...once every 2? Even if you havr a serious condition for the most part.
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For me it is fine as long as I’m within an hour or so. A couple years ago it wasn’t a concern of mine, until it was…
 
Dennis in MA said:
I've got a bigger question: Why do we need liquor LICENSES in 2024???? If you wanna go inspect, have at it. But limiting the lic's overall is just stupid and is born by existing merchants who dont' want competition.

Same with hack licenses. "Oooh, there are only so many cabs!" Then Uber comes along and blows it up.

Maybe someoen can come along and create a "brew at your table beer" system and F the liquor boards completely. LOL
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Harrington Liquors in Chelmsford played the game rather hard is my understanding on keeping the limit low in town. Decent store. Shitty game.
 
Sam P said:
Governor Healey just passed a bill to add 250 liquor licenses in the city of Boston over the next 3 years. Really? And she is worried about lawful gun owners?
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No surprise. DimocRAT pols like to keep their DimocRAT constituents just as high and intoxicated as possible. 🥴
 
VigilantesLiberi said:
I see potential in the 'grow or brew in your own home' market. People want fresh drinks, and they know exactly what they put in and where it's been this whole time. A company can bring you the stuff you need for brewing day, then leave some high end fermenting equipment for you to watch. They will even come back and bottle all that pisswasse for you if you paid for the gold package.
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There are already operations such as Hopsters in Newton and Brew Zone in Saugus where you can show up one day to mix and "cook" your wort, and then come back a week or two later to bottle. You end up paying around $35 a case plus the cost of the bottles.

I have a bunch of homebrewing gear which has been sitting unused in my basement for more than a decade. My wife and I gave it up for a number of reasons, not the least of which was that it became a lot easier to purchase interesting commercial beers. I can honestly say I never made a lager as good as the Jack's Abbey Oktoberfest I have in the fridge right now.
 
MaroonedinMA said:
Honestly, the city needs them. Because of the way the licenses are bought and sold they are concentrated in high-wealth areas of the city and many parts of the city have few options for having a drink at a sit-down restaurant. Further, with the residents facing a steep property tax increase and commercial RE in the crapper, the extra tax is a bonus. Finally, none of the licenses are for package stores. This State/City is a dumpster fire but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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They are concentrated in high wealth areas because the other areas can't behave.

There was (is?) a Dennys by my house in a non high-wealth area. There were always fights, stabbings, robberies, etc. at night.

Why would a business owner add alcohol to an establishment in that environment?
 
Horatio Alger Jr said:
They are concentrated in high wealth areas because the other areas can't behave.

There was (is?) a Dennys by my house in a non high-wealth area. There were always fights, stabbings, robberies, etc. at night.

Why would a business owner add alcohol to an establishment in that environment?
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I dunno
Maybe for the entertainment of watching fights, stabbings, robberies
Whist eating greasy food @ 3 a.m. , half in the wrapper
 
chris_1001 said:
Booze = taxes = money

Guns = nothing
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She's gotta' find a way to make up for the tax revenue lost when menthol cigarettes were banned.
All those Newport smokers are buying them up in NH now, and since they already made the ride up for that, may a well do the rest of their shopping while up there and beat Mass out of the sales tax on those other items too.
 
Asaltweapon said:
Harrington Liquors in Chelmsford played the game rather hard is my understanding on keeping the limit low in town. Decent store. Shitty game.
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Being a former police officer (I believe his father was as well), and wielding considerable clout on the town boards (think he was a selectman as well at some point), John Harrington did have quite the influence on limiting the number of liquor licenses issued.
I remember when Harrington's was between Purity Supreme (now sort of Andiamo) and Marshalls (now a gym?). He was squeezed out of that space- that's when he built the current location behind those buildings (now Lincoln Liquors).

I had acquaintances with first-hand knowledge of goings-on back then. As I remember it, when he built his free-standing building, the parking lot was designed to connect to the loading docks lot (rear of) the Purity/ Marshall's building, then had some town rule or by-law changed to prevent trucks from backing up from Summer Street into the loading spaces. He then charged Marshall's and Purity to use his parking lot to back trucks in.
 
M1911 said:
The number of liquor licenses in Boston is capped by state legislation, for some ridiculous reason. As a result, liquor licenses in Boston are bought and sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The cap on liquor licenses was started in the 19th century when the Brahmins who ran the state legislature wanted to suppress the Irish immigrants who were flooding into Boston.
 

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