What elections mean for Sparks Street pubs

I have a new story up for a new venue - OpenFile. This is the first of two stories about pubs as political hangouts, and the road to these stories was a bit harried. When other outlets did their own stories on the same hangouts around the same time as these stories were originally written, my editor at OpenFile and I held back, and rejigged the pieces to fit the election that ended up happening. There was to have been a third piece as well, but we couldn't make it work in the long run, but I'm happy with these two pieces. (And we'll look forward to the second piece by Monday).