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...encourage the state legislature to pass DeLeo’s bill and hasten the construction of the two resort-style casinos and four race-track slot machine banks for which it calls. Although we recognize that gambling may not be the most productive industry, or the most morally sound, the economic benefits for both the public and private sectors that follow from allowing in-state casino operation far outweigh the moral grievances that some individual citizens contend should force the government to disallow it. So long as Massachusetts actively works to prevent and counteract the negative consequences excessive gambling...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Numbers Game | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...seems unfair to pass an order that could have detrimental effects on the rest of the hotels [in the city],” Jillson said...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Passes Two Resolutions on Cambridge Labor | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Current freshman seminar students said that individuals who lack experience in the arts feel comfortable enrolling in these art-making courses because they are taken pass-fail...

Author: By James K. Mcauley and Julia L Ryan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Freshman Seminars Highlight Art-Making Opportunities | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...regulatory reform was supposedly dead too, but now that Republicans have supposedly learned that pure obstructionism is a losing play, it's being treated as a done deal. Democrats like Obama's economic adviser Larry Summers and Senate Banking Committee chairman Christopher Dodd are saying it's going to pass, perhaps as early as next month. So are key Republicans like Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who recently put the odds of passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Financial Reform: Far from a Done Deal in Congress | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...noting that the 100%-confident Gregg and Democratic Senator Jack Reed were assigned to hash out compromise rules for derivatives - and failed. Even if they had succeeded, the House might not have gone along. And there are dozens of similar issues that need to be resolved for reform to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Financial Reform: Far from a Done Deal in Congress | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

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