TAUNTON After a defeat in court and before the Taunton City Council, there are more barriers for Fairhaven-based retail marijuana company Bask Inc. to open in Taunton.
The company has faced opposition for over a year from residents with traffic concerns about their proposed location at 400 Winthrop St. and some city councilors, but the road ahead is more unclear than ever before.
In December, the company won in Land Court with the judge overturning the City Council s decision to deny them a special permit and ordering the Council to issue the permit.
But the measures Bask has taken to get that victory have not endeared Bask to some members of the City Council.
TAUNTON A Taunton City Council resolution condemning the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was sent to the council-as-a-whole subcommittee Tuesday evening after it became clear it did not have enough support to be approved.
Councilors in opposition of passing the resolution that night said they were not consulted about the resolution beforehand and questioned whether it was an appropriate measure.
The resolution was put forth by Councilor Phil Duarte, who said he drafted the resolution last week after becoming more and more horrified as more information about the Capitol riot was revealed. I thought it was the right thing to do to use the position that I hold to try to offer some condemnation of that attack on the Capitol, he said.
TAUNTON After a several-weeks-long injunction that kept the Taunton City Council from moving forward with retail marijuana applicants, the council voted to give licenses to three new applicants Tuesday evening.
The retailers include GTE Taunton at 295 Broadway, HTC Trinity at 354 Winthrop St. and LMCC at 93 County St.
Every city council-member voted in favor of giving the applicants licenses except for Deborah Carr, who has been staunchly anti-marijuana and voted against every applicant. I m happy that the council has granted licenses to some highly qualified applicants. I understand this is a new type of business being brought to the city and understand the concerns of some, but feel we have the proper protocols in place that these will be as least obtrusive as possible while providing product to our citizens, Committee on Police and License Chairman David Pottier said in a statement.
New US Secretary of Interior signifies hope for Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has a powerful new ally in its fight to keep its land-in-trust status.
The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico as Secretary of the Interior. She is the first Native American to hold a Cabinet post.
Haaland was confirmed by a 51-40 vote, the narrowest margin yet for a Biden Cabinet nomination. Four Republicans voted yes: Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
The Department of the Interior is home to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Haaland, 59, D-N.M., is an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna Native American tribe and serves on the House Natural Resources Committee. She was one of the first two Native American women elected to the United States Congress, the other being Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas.