POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: Happy hour back on tap
BY KELLY GARRITY RAISE A GLASS — The push to bring back happy hour is going for another round. An amendment that state Sen. Julian Cyr filed to the Senate’s economic development bill would repeal the 40-year-old prohibition on drink specials and let cities and towns allow their bars and restaurants to offer discounts on alcoholic beverages before 10 p.m. “The refrain I hear most from my fellow millennials is how absolutely boring Greater Boston is , how absolutely boring Massachusetts is,” Cyr told Playbook. Happy hour could help keep young people from fleeing a state that “at least from a millennial perspective, increasingly has a reputation for being outrageously expensive and not a lot of fun,” Cyr said. SHOT: A similar standalone bill Cyr filed earlier this session was sent to study, effectively killing it. But… CHASER: Don’t pour one out just yet. The provision has won Senate support before, when the chamber voted t...