Patrick uses Indian casino bid to trumpet his own
Ken Maguire
Gov. Deval Patrick, trying to persuade lawmakers to bring casino gambling to Massachusetts, is bolstering his jobs-and-revenue pitch with the argument that the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian tribe will beat everyone to it.
The tribe wants the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to approve its request to place 540 acres in Middleborough into federal trust — a key step for the tribe to build a $1 billion casino.
Even though the tribe’s casino could be years away, Patrick is using it to try to gain support for his plan to license three resort casinos, which he says would generate thousands of jobs and $400 million in annual tax revenue. Full story
AMP helps businesses gain competitive edge
Jin-ah Kim
As a female-owned small business here in the Bay State, Arvest Press Inc. has learned how to play the game — and the name of the game is knowing how to use the Commonwealth’s resources.
For the Waltham-based commercial printing company, doing business with state departments started five years ago when it obtained certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) from the state Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA).
So far, the company has won dozens of contracts with the Commonwealth. Michael Kaye, Arvest’s vice president of sales and marketing, attributed the company’s success in part to the Affirmative Market Program (AMP).
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 Baldwin: A literary standard
Talia Whyte
“I know that what I am asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand — and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.”
— James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time”
James Baldwin had fire, all right.
He was a dynamic public intellectual, a friend to some of the most important figures in history, and a brave writer who became an oracle for African Americans during the height of the civil rights movement. Baldwin motivated people around the world to think about what social change could really look like. Full story
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