{"id":12753,"date":"2014-02-14T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12753"},"modified":"2014-02-14T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T22:47:37","slug":"discontent-in-beantown-sands-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/discontent-in-beantown-sands-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Discontent in Beantown; Sands, Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"martinjwalsh-headshot\"<\/a>Boston<\/strong> Mayor Martin J. Walsh<\/strong>\u00a0(right<\/em>) wants the awarding of a Beantown-area casino put off … mainly so he’ll have more time to cadge and scheme<\/a> his way into “host community” status, where the big money is to be found. Steve Wynn<\/strong>‘s Everett<\/strong> site directly abuts the Boston city line and Suffolk Downs<\/strong>, where Mohegan Sun<\/strong> would set up business, is split between East Boston<\/strong> and Revere<\/strong>. As the Boston Globe<\/em> reports, both projects have been configured in such a way as to spill into Boston and give the city veto power.<\/p>\n

Fractious Bostonian Charles Lightbody<\/strong> is accused of being behind an anti-casino campaign in Revere, including large drops of anti-casino literature and direct-mail propaganda. Unions at Suffolk Downs are alleging<\/a> a “massive, secret expenditures of monies by unknown sources in an illegal effort to defeat the ballot question<\/em>.” Lightbody’s attorney responded that “Suffolk Downs seems to try and blame other people for their failures<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

\"Mohegan<\/a>Former Mohegan Sun partner Northeast Realty<\/strong> is coming after<\/a> the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority<\/strong> over their failed Palmer<\/strong> project. It’s seeking documents that would prove that Mohegan Sun was in cahoots with Suffolk Downs while still ostensibly seeking a casino in Palmer. Unfortunately for Northeast’s Leon Dragone<\/strong> his public-record requests are coming up snake eyes.<\/p>\n

Cold weather in Illinois<\/strong> drove punters indoors — and to the comfort of slot routes. The machines are posting impressive numbers<\/a>, much to the delight of cities like Jacksonville<\/strong>, which is reaping $13,000 a month in taxes. Illinois<\/strong> has even spawned its own version of Dotty’s<\/strong>, called Lucy’s Place<\/strong> and catering to people who don’t like hanging out in bars.<\/p>\n

According to Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong> Chairman A.G. Burnett<\/strong>, \"venetian-pic\"<\/a>hackers who assaulting Las Vegas Sands<\/strong>‘ Web sites neither gained access to patrons’ credit card information nor did they tamper with gambling systems<\/a>. (They may have tried, for all we know.) That’s some comfort for Sands customers’, who have run into a stony wall of silence from the company itself, which restricted comment to an inscrutable e-mail<\/a>. Revelation of employees’ Social Security numbers was confined to Sands Bethlehem<\/strong>. “Gaming regulators are now working to ensure Sands did everything possible to protect employee information<\/em>,” reports the Las Vegas Sun<\/em>, which says that Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>‘s workforce remains unable to log into its own workplace computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the day’s happiest story<\/strong>, craft brewing has returned to Beau Rivage<\/strong> and its Tunica<\/strong> cousin, Gold Strike Casino Resort<\/strong>. The MGM Resorts International<\/strong> properties will be the exclusive dispensers of Crooked Letter Brewing Co<\/strong>. flavors\u00a0Sheep Shank Ale, Anchor Bend Imperial Stout and Double Half Hitch Imperial. Here’s mud in your eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh\u00a0(right) wants the awarding of a Beantown-area casino put off … mainly so he’ll have more time to cadge and scheme his way into “host community” status, where the big money is to be found. Steve … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,58,112,11,35,167,95,12,92,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12759,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12753\/revisions\/12759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}