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Gambling Industry Advances In Massachusetts

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published February 28, 2014 at 6:20 PM EST

The effort to bring Las Vegas-style gambling to Massachusetts hit a milestone today when regulators awarded the first casino license. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission awarded a license to Penn National Gaming to operate a slot machine parlor at a harness race track in Plainville on the Rhode Island border. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Clyde Barrow, a professor of public policy at UMass Dartmouth, who specializes in the gaming industry.

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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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