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Double standards in gambling age requirements need to go

December 11, 2015 By SamTracy 14 Comments

Yesterday, the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, came out in support of AG Maura Healey's proposed regulations for the industry. A quick summary: Healey has proposed regulations that would require daily … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: age requirements, ageism, daily fantasy sports, DFS, DraftKings, FanDuel, gambling, Maura Healey

Update on the “ATMs in Casinos” amendment from the State House

December 29, 2014 By Jamie Eldridge 29 Comments

After being alerted by the Stop Predatory Gambling organization yesterday about an amendment added to H.4110, the Bank Modernization Act ( https://malegislature.gov/Bills/188/House/H4110 ) on December 24th, a few legislators including … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ATMs, casinos, casinos. gambling, gambling, house, legislature, predatory-lending, senate, transparency

Why I won’t support Steve Grossman for governor: The Lottery

January 22, 2014 By megaera 58 Comments

I was recently contacted by the Grossman campaign, asking for my support for Steve's bid for the corner office. I wrote back, telling Steve that, while I admire some of his successes as Treasurer, his handling of the Lottery — specifically, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, economy, gambling, governor, grossman, lottery, treasurer

Casinos: A Worse Bet Than Ever

August 17, 2013 By thegreenmiles 20 Comments

As Massachusetts keeps pursuing casinos as a magic salve for neglected areas, officials keep ignoring that America's casino explosion has made each new casino far less profitable. Take Pennsylvania: Nine of the 11 Pennsylvania casinos … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, gambling, new-bedford, springfield

Sen. Rosenberg to Sec. Bialecki: I’ll See Your Casino Stock and Raise You My Casino Vendor Stock

November 14, 2011 By scout 4 Comments

It turns out that Patrick administration Secretary of Housing & Economic Development Greg Bialecki is not the only big player in the push to bring casinos to MA whose financial portfolio includes interests that stand to benefit if the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, corruption, gambling, money, Senator Rosenberg

My iRobot Vacuum Cleaner is More Sentient than Greg Bialecki

November 5, 2011 By gladys-kravitz 4 Comments

I think this editorial in the Globe by Citizens for a Stronger Massachusetts articulates one of the problems with Greg Bialecki, Deval Patrick's Secretary of Housing and Economic Development: Now, in seeking to minimize his role in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bialecki, deval-patrick, economic-development, gambling, gaming

Ring of Fire

September 23, 2011 By gladys-kravitz 46 Comments

Somehow, or maybe not, we are related. Distantly, if so. I don't know her name. We just seem to show up at all the same wakes. This time she's got a baby with her. He's very well behaved, with a full head of hair and a sweet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: gambling, gaming, middleboro, slots

Tomato, Tomaahto

October 22, 2010 By gladys-kravitz Leave a Comment

TIM CAHILL At least he's honest. *Paid for by the Committee to Make Deval Patrick Look Conservative on Gambling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, deval-patrick, gambling, slots, tim-cahill

A Final Word for the Dogs of Wonderland

August 25, 2010 By carey-theil 6 Comments

We know very little about the greyhounds who raced at Wonderland in the first fifty years of its existence.  We know that in the very early years, greyhounds were transported to Boston by self-professed "dog men," who would move from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: animal-protection, ballot-questions, gambling, massachusetts

Looming Gambling Veto is Deval Patrick’s Moment of Truth as Governor

July 31, 2010 By bmass 38 Comments

Let's run through them again.   Three casinos at 3,000 to 5,000 slots each equals as many as 15,000 for the state.   The compromise proposal seemed like it was cutting the numbers of slot barns from four to two, but it also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casino, deleo, ethics, gambling, governors-race, patrick, racetracks, slots

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BenDowningMABen Downing@BenDowningMA·
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Our leaders didn’t prepare us for the virus, or a shock like it, and that left all of us, but particularly the most vulnerable, exposed. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/06/nation/mass-surpasses-16000-deaths-due-covid-19/ #mapoli

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It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.

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Beautiful urban visions from @berkie1 !

Sure would help to have a robust, thriving public transit system to enable this.

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Streets that put people first, not cars - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/03/superblocks/ via @BostonGlobe

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DrEricDingEric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing·
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Let this sink in— 5,700,000 children will be lifted out of poverty soon by President Biden’s #COVID19 relief aid passed by Congress.

Zero Republicans (House/Senate) voted for it.

Only way we passed it that Democrats won 2 senate seats for a 50-50 tie & VP Harris made it 51-50. https://twitter.com/chrislu44/status/1366524803742597120

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This deserves a lot more attention

New analysis: 13.1 million fewer Americans would be in poverty after the passage of Biden's economic relief bill

Significantly, the child poverty rate would be cut in half. That's 5.7 million fewer kids in poverty https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/2021/presidential-policy/biden-economic-relief-proposal-poverty-impact?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210228&instance_id=27598&nl=the-morning®i_id=103545475&segment_id=52539&te=1&user_id=cd59d05eab07f3403b8db65ae0fa15b3

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“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

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