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Late Aquinnah Casino Bid Surprises Pretty Much Everyone

Now that the Mashpee Wampanoags finally have their casino bid together, it’s time for them to maybe, possibly move over. The Aquinnah tribe’s late bid […]

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Steve Wynn Releases Renderings of Foxboro Casino

With a public ice skating rink, Steve Wynn is sure to win over Foxboro and convince its residents to support his $1 billion gambling resort. […]

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Mashpee Wampanoags Choose Taunton for Prospective Casino

So Taunton it is. After months of searching, with rumors of deals in Bridgewater, Raynham, Plymouth, and just about everywhere in between, the Mashpee Wampanaog […]

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Dear Gary Loveman: Casinos Are Not Mundane Business

Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman gave a talk yesterday in front of a group of local powerbrokers at Boston College’s Chief Executives’ Club of Boston. […]

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Caesars Makes Push for Casino at Suffolk Downs

Caesars CEO Gary Loveman lunched yesterday with some of Boston’s biggest wigs in hopes of making way for Caesars to bring in a $500 million […]

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Doubts Grow on the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Tick, tick, tick. It’s now been over two months since the casino bill became law and even longer since the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian tribe took […]

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From the Archives: The Massachusetts Casino Saga

Photo by John Howard. The question of whether or not to bring slot machines and casinos to Massachusetts has been a long-running political drama here […]

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Globe Calls On City Council to Demand Citywide Casino Vote

Globe Calls On City Council to Demand Citywide Casino Vote. As Steve Poftak pointed out back in September, it’s not likely that the measure would […]

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Then the Clouds Opened Up, and Stephen Crosby Spoke About Casinos

Then the Clouds Opened Up, and Stephen Crosby Spoke About Casinos. He’s been pretty quiet since his appointment as the chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming […]

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Brimfield Could Go Las Vegas as MGM Enters Casino Bid

Brimfield Could Go Las Vegas as MGM Enters Casino Bid. Brimfield businessman David Callahan has an 11 a.m. presser scheduled, and some sources are prematurely […]

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Will Foxwoods Meddle in Massachusetts?

It’s a pretty simple calculus: when casinos open in Massachusetts, it will be very, very bad news for Connecticut. For years, Massachusetts residents have streamed […]

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Odds-On Favorite? Not the Mass Lottery

The Massachusetts state lottery has made news the past few weeks for two things: a $20 holiday raffle that lost money and a proposal to […]

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Will a Casino Tear Foxboro Apart?

The big news on the gaming front from over the holidays was the Foxboro selectmen’s decision, by a 3-2 vote, against entering into negotiations with […]

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Why the Bridgewater Casino Rumor Won't Die

For months now, the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe has been on the hunt for a site in southeastern Massachusetts to build a resort casino on. The […]

Massachusetts Has a Gambling Problem

The speaker wants slots, the governor casinos. Why they’ll both win—and you’ll lose.