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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Mayor Mumbles, Senator NIMBY and the Vultures

Well, it's sure been an exciting week with the Mayor of Boston throwing a long overdo temper tantrum over a BIG hole in the ground.

Not to be outdone, the aged self-indulgent Steve Wynn, who has everything that money can nip and tuck bought a Plaza Hotel Penthouse for $23 Million and pronounced the Seaport, an ideal location for one of his gaudy edifices, provoking the knee-jerk NIMBYs outrage.


It's not unexpected that some of the loudest Gambling Stentors have no objection as long as it's


OVER THERE -- just not near MY home!


There was surely enough testimony to that effect on the Senate Floor.

While the media suddenly tallied the lobbying expenditures in the Beacon Hill Fire Sale -- Firms up ante on lobbying for casinos , $1.8M spent on Mass. casino lobbying, The Republican repeats the same AP story, as did others.

There was finally a public announcement that the Vultures added Holyoke to the mix, along with Charlton, but there remain others yet to step forward.







All of which is to say we've simply lost sight of what's reasonable in the feeding frenzy and we need to discuss more important issues like the COSTS.



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