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...past few weeks, it’s been nearly impossible to step into a Massachusetts grocery or liquor store without encountering a flurry of passionate posters advocating or discouraging the expansion of wine vending licenses. The measure that would do so, Question One on this November’s ballot, would allow the licensing commission of every municipality of up to 5,000 residents to issue five additional licenses for food stores to sell wine, and proportionally more for towns over 5,000 residents. One would think that such a proposal would be uncontroversial; 34 other states do not restrict...
Under current state law, companies can hold a maximum of three liquor licenses—a rule that prevents many grocery-store chains from selling beer, wine, and spirits. But the proposed initiative, which appears as Question 1 on ballots statewide next month, would allow licensing boards to issue as many as 2,800 additional wine permits to food stores. It would not loosen restrictions on beer or hard liquor sales...
Some of the stores that already have liquor licenses oppose the new measure...
...which already sells liquor from its Mass. Ave. store, also opposes the initiative, posting two “Vote No on Question 1” signs on its front window...
...Tastes and Spice. While the CLC does not require the petition, Sukijthamapan said that she is asking customers to sign it in a show support, at her lawyer’s recommendation. Many of those customers agreed that the laws preventing Harvard Square businesses from selling beer, wine, or liquor are impractical. “It’s silly,” said Christopher N. Sutton, a student at the Kennedy School of Government who signed the petition. “It sort of reflects the wider Mass. law,” But in 1986, the CLC passed...