Marijuana law delay eyed by legislative leaders

Marijuana law delay eyed by legislative leaders

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 5, 2016…..House and Senate leaders will make a decision in the coming weeks whether to push for a delay this month in key pieces of the marijuana legalization law without waiting for the next Legislature to come into session in January.

"We've had discussions abut delaying some of the dates to give us more time to fine tune the bill, and in the next few weeks we have to make final decisions on that," Senate President Stanley Rosenberg told reporters on Monday after meeting with House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Gov. Charlie Baker.

Hold the urchin tongues, let’s cook like Grandma
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Hold the urchin tongues, let’s cook like Grandma

Froma Harrop

'Tis the season to do cooking. And the holidays are when folks yearn for the old classics, just like ones we used to know. Even some hardcore "foodies" put away the experimental cuisine and make predictable dishes with recognizable ingredients.

One can understand why food writers persist in advocating "makeovers" of traditional dishes. If they didn't put a new spin on standards, they'd have nothing to write about. They'd just reference a cookbook or provide links to the chicken potpie recipe on Epicurious (though I doubt the pioneers had access to dried chanterelle mushrooms).

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