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Ring of Fire

September 23, 2011 By gladys-kravitz

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

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

Casinos dead for the year?

August 24, 2010 By Charley on the MTA

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

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

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, patrick, racinos, slots

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

June 23, 2010 By fberman

    • 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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, gambling, slots

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

June 22, 2010 By fberman

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, gambling, slots

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

June 21, 2010 By fberman

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, gambling, slots

Caring About All the Small People…

June 20, 2010 By gladys-kravitz

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: breiter, casinos, children, gamling, hart, legislature, racinos, schull, slots

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

April 13, 2010 By scout

  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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, deleo, golden-ticket, horse-slaughter, sham, slots, suffolk-downs, vetting

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