In all the casino madness we're having here, I keep hearing one pro-casino argument again and again. Well, actually, it's an anti-anti-casino argument: I guess I just don't understand casino opposition. The idea that poor … [Read more...]
Archives for September 19, 2007
Ogo vs. EaBo
No doubt in response to BMG's insistent call for him to do so (well, maybe Niki's call had something to do with it too), Republican MA-05 candidate Jim Ogonowski has called upon House minority leader John Boehner (R-wherever) to apologize … [Read more...]
Gambling with the Nature of Our Children’s Future…
How you achieve what you want is inevitably characterized by what you did to get it. Means not only don't justify ends but, as human beings, our means become part of our ends. And the means and … [Read more...]
Live Free or… Pay?
That's right folks, even the Governor of "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire is supporting a proposal to increase tolls on the state's highways to pay for needed transportation infrastructure improvements.SALEM, N.H. --Transportation … [Read more...]
Who Was Responsible for Deval’s Casino Plans?
It shouldn't be a shock: the forces that be in the South Coast really, really want a casino. It's the poorest part of the state and they'll take anything. No one should be surprised that UMASS Dartmouth has a casino hack … [Read more...]
Casino meetings
As I suspected, the list of meetings published in today's Herald was just to show the meetings with gambling interests. BMG has gotten its mitts on the complete list of meetings* held by the "Gambling/Gaming Internal Study Group Members." … [Read more...]
Tsongas to be endorsed by major veterans organization
Niki Tsongas will be endorsed tomorrow by Veterans and Military Families for Progress. According to the announcement, "[a]lso joining Tsongas will be a number of local veterans including Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Luther … [Read more...]
To the Legislature: Reject Patrick’s Casino Plan
However, it appears that inevitably, we might just regret this easy fix to our long term structural problems. Economic development can also be arrested (a lot) by casinos, as smaller entertainment and retail businesses dry up trying to … [Read more...]
That “moderate” Senator Collins
We learn today that Senator Collins voted against restoring habeas corpus. This is a right extending back to Magna Carta which the partisan radicals of the Bush Administration have been eating away at. It is a fundamental American freedom. … [Read more...]
GamblePort, and other casino updates
Peter Porcupine, one of our resident curmudgeons, has coined an amusing moniker for the new "independent commission" that Governor Patrick has proposed to regulate the Massachusetts casino industry: GamblePort. Pretty good. Can … [Read more...]