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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

Welcome to Middleborough

July 7, 2008 By purplemouse 2 Comments

Cash bar and shrimp cocktails served at 12. All you can eat burgers and dogs at 1. Speakers, raffles, door prizes. Suggested donation $15 per person or $25 per family. Held at the Middleborough Elks Lodge. And while you are in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: middleboro, middleborough, obrien, pacheco, town-committee

Massachusetts: Proud Home of the Lobster Ranch

March 14, 2008 By gladys-kravitz 6 Comments

Cross Posted from the Gladys Kravitz Blog In response to the Governor Spitzer prostitution scandal the late night news program Nightline dug up and carted out former high-profile Hollywood Madam, Heidi Fleiss to offer her expert testimony … [Read more...]

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

The Governor is Fibbing! Or, Why Casinos Are Not Inevitable In Massachusetts.

March 3, 2008 By gladys-kravitz 2 Comments

1.) Myth - Tribal casinos can offer slots even if they're not legal in the host State The Johnson Act 0f 1951 prohibits slot machines on federal land including Indian Reservations and supports states which refuse to legalize slot machines. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, deval-patrick, gambling, level-iii, mashpee, middleboro, slots, wampanoag

Patrick plays the Indian card

February 1, 2008 By bumpkin 4 Comments

Cross posted from Bellicose Bumpkin Pass my legislation .. or else I've been waiting for this. Last spring and summer when the casino investors were trying to "convince" Middleboro to sign an agreement with the Mashpee Wampanoag, there … [Read more...]

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Trust Issues on the South Shore

January 16, 2008 By gladys-kravitz 2 Comments

Cross posted from Gladys Kravitz blog   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: adam-bond, bridgewater, casino, gambling, middleboro, middleborough, slots

Casinos: On Numbers and Pictures, Part 1.

December 14, 2007 By Ryan Leave a Comment

So, we're stuck at this point - without enough information to make rational decisions about our state. There's no undoing casinos, once they're here, so it would be nice to know a little bit more before taking this plunge - down the rabbit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barrow, casinos, clyde-barrow, deval-patrick, economy, governor-patrick, massachusetts, middleboro, middleborough, patrick, revenue

The Mashpee Wampanoags Show Their Hand

December 14, 2007 By gladys-kravitz 1 Comment

The Mashpee Wampanoag's show their hand (but only after the Freedom of Information Act required them to) - and guess which finger their holding up for the people of Middleboro and the South Shore - and for the future of Massachusetts when … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casino, gambling, middleboro, middleborough, slots, wampanoag

It’s the slots, stupid

December 14, 2007 By bumpkin 18 Comments

Cross-posted from CFO Blog Repeat after me .. inevitable, inevitable.... The casino developers behind the Mashpee Wampanoag are trying to hypnotize us into believing that casinos are inevitable.  This has been part of their campaign … [Read more...]

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Dogs Playing Liar’s Poker

November 20, 2007 By gladys-kravitz 3 Comments

Cross posted from Gladys Kravitz blog … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casino, gambling, massachusetts, middleboro, slots, south-shore

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Arizona Speaker of the House Republican Rusty Bowers on Trumpism:

"The rule by thuggery and intimidation. They found a niche, they found a way, and it's fear. People can use fear, demagogues like to use fear as a weapon. And they weaponize everything."

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Rusty Bowers on Trumpism: "The rule by thuggery and intimidation. They found a niche, they found a way, and it's fear. People can use fear, demagogues like to use fear as a weapon. And they weaponize everything."

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So there was a tweet from Senator Warren that the #MBTA mess is on the Governor. She's not wrong, but it is incomplete. You can debate the pie slice, but you cannot exclude the Legislature on this, where the culture of kicking cans down the road, prevails. #mapoli

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