The Massachusetts Lottery – unofficial slogan: “Ripping off Bay Staters since 1972” – is a mystery wrapped in a conundrum served with extra enigma sauce. However exploitative of gambling addicts, it is voluntary taxation that generates badly-needed revenu... See more
“What’s past is prologue,” wrote Shakespeare in “The Tempest,” and who are we to argue with him? So with the events of 2025 in mind, here is an educated guess at what’s in store for Massachusetts in the year to come, not to be used as a guide for wagering... See more
One hates to spoil a multimillionaire’s holiday surprise, but we already know what the local sports betting industry is getting for Christmas – another year of lighter-than-ashes fines for violations of Massachusetts law. Their latest gift was opened earl... See more
A new mainsail puts a spring in a good old boat’s step. Issue 132: May/June 2020 I slept with my sail in my bunk for a month before I finally set it. That hadn’t been the plan. The plan had been to meet Travis Mack, of Mack Sails, at his shop in Stuart, F... See more
At first glance, the latest Massachusetts poll by the Boston Globe looks like just another off-year survey from the uber-accurate Suffolk University Political Research Center. Sen. Ed Markey leading Rep. Seth Moulton and within the margin of error with Re... See more
