Massachusetts is officially a casino state. Yesterday at two p.m. a slots parlor opened to the public in Plainville. Penn National reportedly spent $250 million to build and start up the facility, the first to bring Las Vegas to the Bay State. It could bring between $86m and $100m a year in state revenues and have some …
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Thirty-six hours after Dylann Storm Roof slaughtered their loved ones in a Charleston, S.C AME Church, family members of the victims grieved their loss but urged the mass murderer be treated with grace, dignity and forgiveness. Like Nadine Collier, who lost her mother, they echoed her despair but also her goodness. “I will never talk to …
Take a yellow legal pad. Draw a line down the middle. Put Hillary Clinton's pluses on one side and minuses on the other. The symmetry is disturbing. Let's start with the good stuff. I confess to a sense of pride that a fellow alumna of Wellesley College could become the nation's first woman President (as …
President Obama's proposed trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), has me in a quandary. I've long held that free trade benefits everyone in the long run. It's what happens in the short run that can be daunting. Reduce or eliminate barriers to other nations' products and we get the benefit of lower prices and greater selection …
Continue reading Secrecy tips the case of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Marjorie Arons-Barron 