Alcohol sales are banned on Thanksgiving in Mass. This bill could change that

Here’s your reminder that liquor sales are banned in Massachusetts on Thanksgiving due to a law tracing back to the state’s Puritan times.

Known as a blue law, the centuries-old rule prohibits liquor sales on Thanksgiving and Christmas — a rule that at least one lawmaker wants to change.

Rep. David Linsky, D-5th-Middlesex, has introduced a bill every year since 2019 to remove the phrase “Thanksgiving Day” from the law to allow for liquor sales…

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