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Public Hearing Scheduled On MGM Springfield Casino

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published March 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM EST
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
MGM Springfield
An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission will be in western Massachusetts on Monday for a public hearing on MGM’s casino project in Springfield.

An artist's rendering of MGM Resorts proposed casino in Springfield, MA
Credit MGM Springfield

   The hearing that will take place at the West Springfield Middle School is one of two that will be held in the region as the gaming commission moves closer to awarding a license to develop and operate a resort casino. MGM is the only applicant in western Massachusetts.  The hearing will afford casino opponents, like Ted Steger, a chance to make a case against MGM’s project.

    " They ( gaming commissioners) have not been hearing this. They've been in a bubble speaking to the casinos, so this is an opportunity for the citizens and an outside voice to get to the gaming commission."

     Steger criticized the commission for giving just a week’s advance notice of the hearing.

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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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