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Maura Healey Talks Prisons and Guns

June 5, 2014 By massmarrier

  Dem candidate for MA attorney general Maura Healey bears the mark of the progressive — she wants to go to the root of big problems and solve them. Click below to hear how she’d tackle two complex, interrelated areas of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: addiction, attorney-general, election 2014, guns, massachusetts, Maura Healey, mental-health, prisons, recidivism, reform, Tolman

The roll call vote on casinos and predatory gambling expansion

August 1, 2010 By AmberPaw

Remember, Atlantic City's casino culture is failed and it looks like the State of New Jersey may have to take them over Nevada has unemployment of 14% and a foreclosure rate 5 times higher than out state. Michigan let in one casino - now it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: addiction, atlantic-city, bankruptcy, casino, child-welfare, michigan, nevada, predatory-gambling, racino

United to Stop Slots holds Media Briefing in State House on Feb 9, 2010

February 5, 2010 By AmberPaw

I am posting the invitation below with the hope that some of you will join me in covering this event as citizen journalists.  The pro gambling industry is also having an event the same day; I would like to get the word out about this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: addiction, citizen-journalist, gambling, kathleen-conley-norbut, les-bernal, live-blogging, predatory-gambling, prof.-robert-goodman, slots

What Would You Do? What WILL You Do?

March 30, 2009 By bmass

"Listen, this stuff is the best. It's cool. It's a rush. It's fun. And besides," the man says, lowering his voice into a sincere tone, "do you how many poor people benefit from this? Not just in the US, but all over the world. I mean they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: addiction, brain-chemistry, casinos, democrats, slot-machines, state-house, values

Tim Cahill Proposes Equivalent of Crack Houses to Raise State Revenue

March 7, 2009 By bmass

United Press International, quoting an extensive story on the front page of today's Boston Globe, summarizes the reality behind Tim Cahill's -- and, it must be admitted, the governor's -- illusion that slot machines (whether in parlors or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: addiction, cahill, chemical, drug, gambling, patrick, slots, stupid, video

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