News Apr 16, 2025 at 5:11 pm

A Decade of Debate Ends in Silence

Hookah lounge regulations tore communities apart in 2015. This week, they passed 6-0 in a nearly empty room

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Can't Live with em ? Can't live without em ?

wombats on April 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM Report this
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"weighing community safety against cultural expression"

Logic dictates that community safety wins.

Phoebe in Wallingford on April 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM Report this
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"It's deeply offensive to suggest that the businesses where an inordinate number of gun murders took place are somehow a hub for gun murders, because... uh... Hey! Look over there! ROOT CAUSES!"

B9 N. Glect on April 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM Report this
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World over, hookah lounges attract a clientele of terrible people. Just like golf courses do.

GasparFagel on April 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM Report this

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