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...number of arguments against the initiative. It reminds readers of the thousand jobs tied to dog racing within state borders, disputes the claim that dogs are mistreated under current sport regulations and cites a rate of fatality below one percent for the state’s 2066 racing greyhounds in the past calendar year. With a few exceptions, the many arguments advanced by MAIC against Question 3 are compelling ones. More convincing, though, is the argument they don’t make. MAIC’s opponent, the group known as Grey2K responsible for supporting the ballot initiative, notes...
Luck may have finally run out for Wonderland Greyhound Park, located near the final stop on the Blue Line, if a ballot question to ban dog racing in Massachusetts passes this November. The proposal, sponsored by The Committee to Protect Dogs and driven largely by concerns about animal mistreatment, represents a rehash of a ballot question from the 2000 elections that sought to ban dog racing in the state. That initiative failed by a 51 to 49 percent margin. A poll of likely voters conducted last week by Rasmussen Reports, a public opinion polling firm, indicated that 50 percent...
...home contains a mini-shrine to buses, with memorabilia from companies like Greyhound papered on the walls...
...seat, inches from the fuselage-mounted engine, knocked a couple hundred hertz off my hearing range, and the guy in front of me had reclined his seat so far back I could count his follicles. But I look at it this way: it beats waking up on a Greyhound bus to discover that your seatmate is hacking you to death...
Nice Harvard degree, so how much are you worth? Whether or not you’re booked on the next Greyhound south to begin your finance career, that figure may be higher than you think once you consider the value of your unique biology. “Human commodification” is a nebulous term which has peppered debates on everything from prostitution to genome patenting to selling your “soul” on Ebay; but what remains undeniably clear is that markets in “personal” goods will always exist and continue to mature...