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Massachusetts Casino Opponents Consider Next Steps

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published December 2, 2014 at 2:03 PM EST
Steve Abdow, a western Massachusetts organizer with Repeal the Casino Deal.
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Steve Abdow, a western Massachusetts organizer with Repeal the Casino Deal.
Steve Abdow, a western Massachusetts organizer with Repeal the Casino Deal.
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Steve Abdow, a western Massachusetts organizer with Repeal the Casino Deal.

After failing last month to repeal the state’s casino law, activists in Massachusetts may become watchdogs over the industry.

Steve Abdow, one of the leaders of the Repeal the Casino Deal campaign, said the effort to stop casinos from coming to Massachusetts ended with the crushing defeat on Election Day, but he and fellow activists are discussing other ways to stay involved.

"We  have concerns about the impacts casinos will have on our communities. That is what we all have in common and why we did our work."

Abdow said he’ll be watching for any attempts by the industry to amend the casino law, such as loosening restrictions on lending money to gamblers and increasing the hours alcohol can be served in the casinos.

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Paul Tuthill
Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.
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