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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...]

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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...]

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Casinos dead for the year?

August 24, 2010 By Charley on the MTA 40 Comments

I'm hearing that Terry Murray doesn't have the votes for an override of the Gov's veto, so DeLeo's giving up. No special session.Right now ... this is kind of a win-for-losing thing for the gov. He doesn't have to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, deval-patrick, patrick, robert-deleo, slots, therese-murray

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

Why Bernstein is wrong about the state’s racetracks

July 29, 2010 By David 37 Comments

David Bernstein has an unusually strongly-worded post on his blog regarding the ongoing stalemate over slots at the tracks. Beacon Hill is jammed up over the question of how to shove money into the state's four existing race tracks -- … [Read more...]

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Five Reasons for Opposing Expanded Gambling in Mass. — Reasons #5

June 23, 2010 By fberman 2 Comments

    • 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...]

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Five Reasons for Opposing Expanded Gambling in Mass. — Reasons #3 and 4

June 22, 2010 By fberman 1 Comment

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...]

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Five Reasons for Opposing Expanded Gambling in Mass. — Reason #2

June 21, 2010 By fberman 10 Comments

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...]

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Caring About All the Small People…

June 20, 2010 By gladys-kravitz 20 Comments

The photo above was taken in the parking lot of the Casino Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario Canada. Acknowledging the reality that children are routinely abandoned in casino parking lots, Senator Jack Hart (First Suffolk) of the Senate Ways and … [Read more...]

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Suffolk Downs Ended “Zero Tolerance” Policy on Horse Slaughter A Year Ago, But Still Takes Credit

April 13, 2010 By scout 9 Comments

  One has to look at the racing calendar of Suffolk Downs to truly appreciate the trickery of what Suffolk Downs repeatedly called a "zero tolerance" policy on horse slaughter.  Racing at Suffolk Downs goes from May to November, … [Read more...]

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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
3 Mar

When Scott Brown won in January 2010, Alan Khazei told us, “you can’t read too much into it. It’s a special election!”

Bad result but good to keep in mind.

Stephanie Murray@stephanie_murr

Looks like JEFF TURCO wins the race to replace former House Speaker Robert DeLeo in the 19th Suffolk District. JUAN PABLO JARAMILLO comes in second by just under 300 votes.

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3 Mar

Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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Jo_ComerfordJo Comerford@Jo_Comerford·
2 Mar

.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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JoeCurtatoneJoseph A. Curtatone@JoeCurtatone·
1 Mar

It's time to state outright that Charlie Baker's science advisory team is the Chamber of Commerce. That's why we were slow to act last year, why our public health network got ignored on vaccines & why our reopenings have flown in the face of data, expert advice & common sense. https://twitter.com/MikeConnollyMA/status/1366423893276303364

Mike Connolly@MikeConnollyMA

Just reiterating my COVID philosophy: Instead of bucking advice from the CDC and Dr. Fauci (by further reopening the Mass. economy), we should #TaxTheRich and use the new revenue to provide cash relief to people in need and small businesses while also investing in health equity.

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2 Mar

He’s running

Simón Ríos@simonfrios

Mayor Joe Curtatone announces this is his final year as mayor of Somerville. @WBUR

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