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...package store owners in northern Massachusetts have their way, one of the last of the state's blue laws will soon be retired. A group of store owners is challenging the prohibition against Sunday liquor sales, claiming the law is arbitrary and violates their state and federal constitutional rights to due process. Currently, store owners within 10 miles of the New Hampshire border are granted exemptions, and during the holiday season some counties--Middlesex County included--allow Sunday openings...
Unlike in Massachusetts, it is legal to sell liquor in New Hampshire on Sundays, and so the border exemption was made to keep liquor stores from losing the business. However, the law allows towns with so much as a sliver of land within 10 miles of New Hampshire to be covered by the exemption. Store owners in Ipswich, Mass. are allowed to sell on Sundays, while owners in its more northerly neighbor Essex are not, because a sliver of Ipswich stretches up within the ten mile zone. In response to the liquor store owners' complaints, the state Alcoholic Beverages Control...
...legislature takes any action at all, it will probably be to clarify the existing statues which will no doubt ease the unfair situation liquor store owners face. But ultimately, the Sunday liquor law is a ridiculously anachronistic and offensive relic. It should be repealed...
...addressing the dangers of the new assembly-line mentality, the dehumanization of "information workers" who do nothing but feed raw data into The Machine: store cashiers, data processing agents, telemarketers...
...believe that publisher Larry Flynt should be able to open his hard-core-pornography store in Cincinnati, Ohio [LAW, April 20]. I mean, we have nudity everywhere possible. It is practically a requirement for making a successful movie. Billboards everywhere show partial nudity. Nowadays nothing is considered obscene. People should worry less about pornography stores and start concentrating on how to prevent things like the shootings in Jonesboro, Ark. DHVANI DESAI North Brunswick...