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...simply enjoying the remnants of a deceptively short holiday, all had reason to celebrate yesterday. Collective cries for unregulated Sunday booze-buying have been well-received, effectively voiding one of Massachusetts' residual “blue laws” and making the Sabbath just another day for liquor stores to vend their wares...
...long-awaited repeal, the Massachusetts legislature voted on Nov. 19 to lift the 200-year old ban on Sunday liquor sales. Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney is expected to sign the legislation into law, allowing immediate Sunday sales for anxiously awaiting alcohol consumers...
...ability to buy beer Sunday should not be directed toward this most recent repeal, but rather to previous loosening of restrictions. Not only have Sunday sales been permitted within 10 miles from state borders—a measure to offset disadvantages to Massachusetts-border stores facing competition from our liquor-liberated neighbors in New Hampshire and Vermont who allow their citizens to indulge Sunday cravings—but the state has permitted liquor sales on Sundays from Thanksgiving until New Years when the state feared it would lose too much revenue to neighbors during this lucrative liquor-buying season...
...Puritanical regulation—one of many blue laws that have slowly been repealed or tempered over the years due to their unsavory and restrictive nature—has remained on the books partially because of lobbying by liquor store owners who argue that allowing Sunday sales will hurt their mom-and-pop outfits. A past attempt to let liquor flow freely on Sundays failed in October, largely due to these concerns...
Most students, however, have already heard many of the warnings UHS might impart—such as “beer before liquor, never been sicker;” if you are lighter in weight, you are more likely to be a lightweight with alcohol (fancy that); and even if a party punch does not taste saturated with alcohol, it probably is—as your liver will be after a few cups...