Flipping for a Casino
First he’s out. Then he’s in. Then he’s out… Like a person using CPR — or a scene from some sordid XXX movie — Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse has been taking the residents of his once-fair little city on a roller coaster ride that’s sent most of them into fits of either anger or bewilderment. [...]
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission – always the sharp thorn in local hackery’s side – has announced that the projected date for the first casino openings in the state won’t be until at least the end of 2015, and possibly the end of 2016, according to a story appearing in the Republican this week. This schedule [...]
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THE TORTURE IS ALMOST OVER Well, thank God it’s finally almost over. There should be a law in this country regarding campaigning: Candidates should only be allowed to campaign in the six months prior to the election. This “election season” actually spanned the past couple of years. And so on the 6th we’ll all have [...]
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- – Work on updating my science fiction series, Stellar Conflict, continues. I recently designed the website template (from a base template I found on the Web), and I’m busy now transcribing stories, writing up new story plots and excerpts, and gathering other information for the site. It’s a lot more in-depth than I first [...]
Continue reading …This past week MGM Resorts International unveiled its plans for the development of a casino resort in the South End of Springfield. The presentation included a bullet list of gaming, entertainment and economic development priorities that left a lot of city leaders and casino backers salivating. The plan MGM Resorts showcased was indeed grand – [...]
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SPRINGFIELD – The frenzy to line up Springfield as the site of a western Massachusetts casino resort continued with an exclamation point on it this past week as the Republican Newspapers announced they had received an offer from two companies owned by Peter Picknelly to purchase the land their downtown headquarters sits on. The offer [...]
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Two weeks ago a story appeared in The Reminder Publications that detailed how Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse had proposed a new position, “Director of Arts, Culture and Tourism,” to help better coordinate projects aimed at transforming Holyoke into culturally thriving community.
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