Results tagged “gambling”

• With the Patrick administration considering expanding gambling in Massachusetts, the Governor is proposing budget cuts to helping gambling addicts. [Boston Herald]

• Governor Deval Patrick's administration plans to cut funding for special treatment units for prisoners with mental illness. The cut could restart a suit by the Disability Law Center against the Department of Correction that was headed for an out of court settlement. [Boston Globe]

Not only is Congressman Barney Frank committed to converting America to the gay agenda, he wants to promote marijuana use, gambling, the rock and roll lifestyle, "economic fascism" and, possibly, witchcraft, head shrinking and esperanto. The website RightSideNews.com exists and believes Frank to be a "moral anarchist" - no, that really is a quote - mainly because he not only supports eliminating federal penalties for possession of "small amounts" of marijuana but also wants to legalize the use of marijuana for - gasp - medicinal purposes.

Rhode Island is a nice, plucky state. Bostonist loves to have the Ocean State in our neighborhood. It beats having Florida's panhandle on the southern border. But, recent headlines emanating from Rhode Island have resulted in a resounding "HUH?" from this Bostonist. Rhode Island is having an identity crisis and it's time for an intervention.

The Globe has an article about video slots, which may pose a bigger addiction risk than other types of gambling. In these difficult economic times (unemployment at record highs, stocks at record lows) it's astonishing that anyone would waste money by feeding into a machine, but it's also feasible that people are desperate enough to view gambling as a way to finally get a break financially. If folks were to get addicted to slots, it's proposed that proceeds from their gambling could go to gambling treatment—irony of ironies. We've always thought that if losing money were really fun, there would be more people just throwing dollar bills out their windows—but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's a sticky situation: spend money to make money from people who maybe shouldn't be spending money... or let them spend that money in other states? It's a gamble, either way.

Does approving and building casinos guarantee new revenue? No. Ask Rhode Island.

--So NOW Sal DiMasi wants to strike a deal on gambling? Guess we've learned one thing during the recent DiMasi stories. What happens in the State House stays in the State House. [Boston Herald]

As the reign of Sal DiMasi as house speaker appears to be in peril, Governor Deval Patrick isn't laughing at his nemesis. He's going out there and reviving the issue of bringing casinos to Massachusetts, which DiMasi squashed so recently. This morning, he brought up the issue again in front of the Brookline Chamber of Commerce.

Last week, all of the talk was about Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi's demolition of Governor Deval Patrick's casino plan. He was credited with spearheading the movement against what had been the highest profile piece of the governor's plan to boost the Bay State economy.

--More from the pillow fight!

After all those light-hearted jokes at the St. Patrick's Day breakfast, during which governor Deval Patrick and house speaker Sal DiMasi playfully sparred over the casino issue, Patrick's casino-license proposal got shot down in the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, making Sal DiMasi the winner in this round.

After six months of political posturing and economic predictions, it appears that King Sal, Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi, will continue to reign over a Commonwealth free from casino wealth.

For this one green day every year, Southie becomes the center of Boston's cultural and political life, and the Dropkick Murphys get more work than Eliot Spitzer's call girl. (Cue rimshot/hysterical laughter.)

On Tuesday we wrote about how Governor Deval Patrick's intellectually lazy casino job creation numbers gave ammunition to the skeptical of gambling Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi. Yesterday, however, Patrick got some good news from the Chamber of Commerce, who released numbers much more helpful to his cause.

Harvard Coop, 3rd floor

The Commomwealth's Speaker of the House, Sal DiMasi, is well-known for his opposition to Governor Deval Patrick's casino plan. There's no turning back now.

It's unfortunate that yesterday's Herald gave huge play to a superficial analysis of Detroit's casinos and their similarity to Governor Deval Patrick's gambling vision. Bostonist was tough on the piece, which made up for its lack of evidence with a few anecdotes and general confusion.

Governor Deval Patrick pitched his casino proposal yesterday at the State House.