Governor Healy adds liquor licenses.

[TG Pioneer]

She didn’t read this bill either. She heard an aide discussing it and thought it was “licker license”.

Ok that was bad. I’m going to ban myself now.

 

[Asaltweapon]

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.

Yes on all counts. I always got a kick out of his curbing on Rt. 4 well within the ROW of the road.
I remember Purity Supreme and the grocery bins coming out front on the steel roller conveyor as a little kid.

 

[Sparky123]

Governor Healy 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?

Liquor licenses generate revenue. The more licenses the more money for the city and state.

 

[steven grammont]

Jokes on her - i don't drink, so I can spend more money on guns.

DITTO

 

[Parker Schreiber]

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.

While liquor licenses were started in the 19th century, AFAIK the cap system came into being after the repeal of Prohibition. Nor was Boston alone in implementing such caps at that time.

 

[nin8888nin]

how many drunk driving deaths will result from that many more liquor licensees?

How many does it take to affect change? it's for the kids....

Maybe MA should have a limit on drinks.
Like a “2 drinks capacity”(STUPID 10 round mag).
So a “MA compliant liquor license” can only allows 2 drinks a person but not if you’re LE.
ALSO ban “high alcohol content” liquor(AW/AR Ban) cause WHY are they needed?!!
AND MA should have MA COMPLIANT liquors and a “LIST” for OUR safety.
Make it happen MAURA cause I need to feel safe now!!
It’s an EMERGENCY

 

[DPR]

This had been in the works for a while, “pre-Healey”. The number of licenses hadn’t changed in a long time and with all the building going the city needed more.

 

[VigilantesLiberi]

Can they tax f***ing?

 

[free]

If the risk was worth the reward, they would already have alcohol in businesses there.

Perhaps - if they were able to even be approved to get a license for such.

 

[Horatio Alger Jr]

Perhaps - if they were able to even be approved to get a license for such.

If the projected tax revenue generated more money than the police/emt cost, they would have already been approved for a license.

 

[Parker Schreiber]

If the risk was worth the reward, they would already have alcohol in businesses there.

That would be true if it was a free market, but it's not. The limited number of licenses creates a barrier to entry, which in turn creates monopoly power. So the licenses go to the locations with the highest risk adjusted rate of return, excluding less profitable (but still viable) businesses.

 

[Tartakovsky]

Governor Healy 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?

Liquor licenses, casino licenses, more crime, more DUIs, more substance abuse, more homelessness, but f*** you if you attempt to defend yourself from the inevitable increase of violent crime that comes with it. Democrats are destroying this country.

 

[Uzi2]

Liquor licenses, casino licenses, more crime, more DUIs, more substance abuse, more homelessness, but f*** you if you attempt to defend yourself from the inevitable increase of violent crime that comes with it. Democrats are destroying this country.

That's their whole objective and has been for decades. We are one election away from disappearing from the bottom of the toilet bowl. If the democrats steal this election, people had better be prepared for war.

 

[Tartakovsky]

That's their whole objective and has been for decades. We are on election away from disappearing from the bottom of the toilet bowl. If the democrats steal this election, people had better be prepared for war.

Wake me up when CW 2.0 starts. I’ll bring the coffee and donuts.

 

[Lank]

How benevolent

 

[Alex978]

Less Guns, more lick her

 

[Dennis in MA]

Wait unitl your local Walmart has a liquor license and puts the 3 packie's in town out of biz. THEN you'll hear about it. LOL

After WM and MB and a few other HUGE players have their lic's, they can go back to 12 or 9 or 3 in a specific city or town b/c no one is using them.

 

[VigilantesLiberi]

Wait unitl your local Walmart has a liquor license and puts the 3 packie's in town out of biz. THEN you'll hear about it. LOL

After WM and MB and a few other HUGE players have their lic's, they can go back to 12 or 9 or 3 in a specific city or town b/c no one is using them.

Maybe the smaller stores should find a business model that works for them. Like beer and wine from smaller/local producers, etc. Walmart will probably have the more generic brands. Just one idea. I believe that competition benefits me as a consumer.