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Over the top talk like this damages our civil society. Please stop doing it. You know better than to compare civic-minded fellow citizens you don't agree with to the most vile people on earth. Shame.

We were sold the casinos law primarily based on the claim that they would create jobs and provide revenue. Both things are true but casinos are an inefficient and at best semi-effective way to do them. But the real problem is that casinos have seriously negative side effects for economic...

I went to Microsoft TechEd as an exhibitor the other year in NOLA. A state development officer contacted me the month before. He set up a meet at the show. When we talked he said I should bring software development to NOLA on the state nickel. Specifically, for every developer I hired there his...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport No, the term is LSD or Landing Ship, Dock. LSD only carry 0 to 4 helicopters -- they are not helicopter centric. The main work is carrying a few hundred marines and their landing craft: tanks, landing vehicles, potentially air cushion, etc. Give...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport Oh. Now I get your point, professor. Thanks!

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport More: http://greenhornconnect.com/events/innovation-foot-walking-tour-bostons-innovation-district-0?utm_source=Greenhorn+Connect+Weekly+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4f906b5ca2-Greenhorn_Newsletter_mar10&utm_medium=email I can keep going...

Re: Innovation Dist. / South Boston Seaport http://masschallenge.org/

Do you have an economics degree? just asking...

I'm heading up to Rockport this weekend. I suspect the small business owners up there who are going to lose business to casinos are not happy about the idea. Moreover, the money that goes into a casino rather than into Gloucester's Festa or Rockport's 4th is going into one place. If that...

inspirationally underfunded.

Re: South Boston Seaport This is new -- don't think it's been posted already, but apologies if it has been. Boston's Innovation District: http://www.nsti.org/news/item.html?id=467

GW2500 that doesn't work in the context of a policy debate. The jobs created by a casino reflect the value the casino operation adds to its transactions. it takes what to run a table? Not much -- some amount of presentation skill and knowledge of the table. That doesn't support a lot of...

Every piece of industrial policy is either good policy or bad policy. Casinos is crap industrial policy. CT is a bedroom community for Wall Street and that skews things a lot. Moreover, CT isn't doing so much high tech manufacture as it used to, so see my top point. (also see...

For many of the same reasons I've given, but in different measures, I'm fine w/we put a stop to scratch tickets and slots. You've got my vote. So, maybe we should encourage MA businesses to kick start an import substitution drive so that we can stop sending our dollars overseas for our...

Re: Filene's (time to move this thread, right? ;) Have to vigorously disagree w/you here. That's one description of a redistributive system, but not necessarily the most accurate and certainly not the only one. The distribution of wealth is, like essentially everything we're talking...

Re: Filene's Boy that's a long post. will read it, soon. :) This statement doesn't jibe w/what i can remember of my economics studies -- but i was always a poor student. Maybe you could throw down some citations to jog my memory?

Fair enough. In a way I'm not arguing w/you so much as ticked off that the Commonwealth doesn't (maybe also) do something more to push the competitiveness envelope as part of the reaction to crisis. Last time we got good and hurt we hired Michael Porter to tell us which way was up -- this...