STATE HOUSE — The backer of a bill that would give Greater Boston-area bars the ability to stay open past 2 a.m. after obtaining local permission told fellow lawmakers Tuesday that the time is not right to extend last call later into the night.
"My view is that this is something we should not act on in this session," Sen. William Brownsberger, a Belmont Democrat whose district includes the Boston neighborhoods of Back Bay, Fenway and Brighton, told the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. "We should give the city time to give it further study. We should give it some further study, but in fact, it's just not ready for primetime as a concept."
One chilly Saturday morning, the mostly gray-haired students sat facing their laptops as Carl Baty, 63, stepped behind a lit projector and began to show them a step that may be second-nature to many 10-year-olds: copying and pasting text into a new document on their screens.
