The Daily Beast reports on the situation in Catawba, SC, where residents say a emissions from paper mill that Kraft is a part owner of is making them and their pets sick, under the look-the-other-way gaze of regulators who are, one resident says "as useless as tits on a boar hog."
Today's New York Post front page, which refers, of course, to the New York part of the Patriots mask shipment.
Gov. Baker posted this photo of 1.2 million N95 masks being loaded onto the Patriots plane, after several days of negotiations with a Chinese company and the Chinese government - and a $2 million payment by the Patriots owner. ABC News reports 300,000 masks will go to New York - and that 500,000 more masks are waiting for us in China.
The Miami Herald brings us up to date on the possible links between an alleged tug job and what might now be an investigation into a Chinese spy ring at Mar-a-Lago:
The idea that a billionaire’s sex act could expose a Chinese spy and influence operation may — and probably should — seem preposterous.
But the Sunshine State is exactly the type of place where a ridiculous turn of the screw can bring down an empire.
WCVB reports on the Patriot owner's statement, which doesn't directly say anything about human trafficking, possibly because his lawyer insisted the day before there was none.
The Herald reports on the looming battle royale between Tom Menino, who wants a casino at Suffolk Downs, and Robert Kraft, who wants a casino next to his football stadium/mall in Foxboro.
The Kraft Group would like to move the popular New England MLS franchise, The Revolution, to a new, smaller, soccer stadium in East Somerville. This has worked well for other MLS teams and the location is already under consideration for development as part of the Green Line expansion and repair yard by MBTA officials.
Turns out Kraft's company is a backer of Matchmine, a startup that attempts to aggregate user ratings of all sorts of stuff to give you recommendations on new things you'd like (anybody remember Firefly?). In fact, the core technology comes out of the Patriots' technology team. This video is mainly of the company CEO explaining the technology at this week's DemoFall conference, but Kraft shows up about three-quarters of the way in, and flashes that ring and talks about winning a Demo God award for best presentation at the show:
Full disclosure: By day, I'm an editor at Network World, which puts on the Demo shows.
Or maybe she was really trying to impress a point on him. Jason Schwartz goes to the same Newton temple as Kraft and reports on her Rosh Hashanah sermon, in which she discussed, for some reason, the goodness of Cal Ripken Jr. and how he is an especially good model in an era of sports scandals:
... This was really awkward.
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