Casinos and slot machine gambling haven't helped New Jersey avoid a $10.9 billion deficit or the loss of 121,000 private sector jobs (and they certainly [haven't been kind to Atlantic City). … [Read more...]
Five Reasons for Opposing Expanded Gambling in Mass. — Reasons #3 and 4
In the first two postings of this series (http://tiny.cc/BMG-Reason1 and http://tiny.cc/BMG-Reason2), I focused on why expanded gambling is more appropriately described as economic cannibalism, and not as economic development, and on how a … [Read more...]
Five Reasons for Opposing Expanded Gambling in Mass. — Reason #2
In the first post of this series (http://tiny.cc/BMG-Reason1) I suggested why expanded gambling is more appropriately described as economic cannibalism, and not economic development. In this post I want to suggests at least one … [Read more...]
Polito Sees Limited, Focused Treasurer
She did describe the political angle to the office. While she notes that she would come in as an independent treasurer, the office has become a “political catchall.” That is with the lottery, alcohol control board and … [Read more...]
Murphy Wants To Be Aggressive Treasurer
While he and Grossman each propose a half billion dollar fund for such goals, Murphy would like MA to go solo on this. It would require making those safe investment decisions with the pension money, but a fund solely with state money … [Read more...]
Grossman Calls for Activist Treasurer
The last politician I saw show all his cards so early in a campaign was Deval Patrick running for governor. That seemed to work OK for him. As a very successful entrepreneur and top manager of his family business, Grossman Marketing Group, … [Read more...]
Who voted no on the gambling bill
Here's a map of where the opponents of the bill represent: Republicans in Red. Democrats in Blue. Areas of the state heavily dependent on tourism, such as the Berkshires and Cape Cod, strongly opposed the bill. These reps are … [Read more...]
House passes DeLeo’s gambling/$lot$ bill 120-37 [updated with roll call]
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The “Circle of Gold”
But when it first started up, lots of people were talking about it, including the students. And so I thought, "This is a teachable moment." I took one of my eighth grade classes and we spent one class period talking about the … [Read more...]
Casino Boycott Petition Circulating
Gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein has thrown her weight behind the boycott and pledge. Here's her take on why people need to speak up: Dear Friend, As we enter political fund-raising season, Speaker DeLeo and Governor Patrick are … [Read more...]
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