UPDATE: The Washington Post...
Casinos
A place to consider the coming eastern-Massachusetts casino.
Casino Commonwealth
By Josh Resnek
The applicants for the casino licensing effort of the Milford investment group led by businessman David Nunes and Foxwoods ejected Nunes from their partnership last week...
The release last week of Steve Wynn's plans for a stunning high rise hotel and casino on a contaminated piece of land jutting out into the Mystic River on the Boston/...
The weekend anti-casino protest held in East Boston proves that the anti-casino forces do not presently have a wide enough backing of the local population to have a major...
What began with casino billionaire savant Steven Wynn as a self-serving foray into casino politics and bartering in Massachusetts some months back is now morphing into a...
No BosVegas
By Steve Holt
At Suffolk Business School's "Build Boston" forum about casinos last Thursday morning, Stephen Crosby, chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, shared a brief,...
John Antonellis is our guest writer on today's post. John has been a resident of Eagle Hill in East Boston for close to 15 years and a homeowner there for 12. He is the Lead...
If a casino comes to Boston, it will arrive with the full-throated support of Boston's mayor and East Boston's city counselor, representative, and senator. Our local leaders...
mit·i·ga·tion /?mit?'gaSH?n/ (noun) - The action of reducing the severity, seriousness or painfulness of something
As you read this, a committee hand-picked by Mayor Menino...
Gambling news
The Globe reports Vornado Realty Trust, which left a giant gaping sore in the heart of downtown, is pulling out of the Suffolk Downs casino proposal because state officials dared to ask it for detailed financial information on its executives, to make sure they aren't actually organized crime figures or illegal ivory importers or something.
...The Boston Business Journal reports part of the Everett site Steve Wynn took a look at for a possible casino is actually in Boston - whose mayor has long and loudly backed a casino at Suffolk Downs. Wonder how long it would take the BRA to draw up casino-only zoning that would cover only one particular part of East Boston?
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