Isn’t this nice. In today’s Herald, Jay Fitzgerald updates us on Clyde Barrow’s newest extracurricular activity: The high-profile UMass prof, who’s virtually the sole source of all those rosy projections about the windfall casino gambling would bring to Massachusetts, is back on the casino industry’s payroll.
Back in 1995, Barrow worked for the Aquinnah of Gay [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Clyde Barrow'
The Prof on the Payroll
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Dept. of Buried Ledes: What the Chamber Study Missed
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Hell of a header on this Globe story today – “Casino Study Backs Patrick.” The lede’s even better: “Governor Deval Patrick’s promise of thousands of new jobs and billions of fresh dollars would come true if three state-licensed resort casinos are opened across Massachusetts, according to a long-awaited Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce study released [...]
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Hey, guess what, everybody? Governor Deval Patrick wants to build three casinos in Massachusetts. He’s been saying that they’ll bring 30,000 jobs in tow. Turns out, they won’t. Shocking, we know. But it’s this revelation that gripped Beacon Hill this week. All other concerns were crowded out.
Most close observers (depending on whom [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Casinos·Clyde Barrow·Dan Bosley·Deval Patrick·Therese Murray
Outside Job
February 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Deval Patrick’s administration has finally hired an outside firm to evaluate the basic assumptions behind its casino gambling proposal, four months after filing legislation to legalize casino gambling, five months after initially backing the legalization of Class III gambling, and a mere seven months after the governor first disappeared into the Berkshires with an armful [...]
