So I went down to the town hall to listen in on an entertainment licensing committee meeting. The main topic for me to be there for was that they were going to start, almost immediately, shutting down anything that needed an entertainment license at midnight. This was only going to be on Shrewsbury st., but I feared it would spread citywide. Now I don't know the first thing about owning a business, but i know that Shrewsbury st. would be screwed if it happened and soon the city. I truly believe that Worcester is going to be a big and financially stable city. But only if we can bring in the money. Right now alot of my friends that like to do some drinking go to Providence or Boston (mostly providence). In my experience, the entertainment business is a very lucrative one. These guys probably make more in the hours of 12-2am on the weekend than say all of Tuesday. Now I know that to most people nothing has changed, but it almost did. That's the scary part to me. Now on the other side, there was one person representing the citizens of the neighborhood. He voiced concerns that I would voice had I been living there as well. There was talk of: cars being sideswiped (well there isn't much you can do about that I

What is weird to me about the neighborhood, is that before it was this upscale dining area, it was an industrial sprawl. I'd rather live near some nightclubs than in the shadow of some scary, pollutant factory.