BOSTON — There is "some urgency" for the Legislature to weigh in on the legality and regulation of daily fantasy sports and online gaming, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission concluded in a white paper on the relatively-new form of sports wagering.
"Right now, it appears to us that the law concerning (daily fantasy sports) DFS is at best unsettled, and that there is a possibility that DFS could be considered illegal, even though the Attorney General has seen fit to move directly to the issues that really matter — consumer protection regulations that will permit the pleasure of DFS play, while protecting against its possible downsides," Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby wrote in an introduction of the paper.
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is reportedly offering retirement incentives to hundreds of administrative employees to shave $30 million to $36 million from the projected deficit in fiscal 2017.
The program would not offer early retirement, but would rather provide an incentive as about 1,000 of the roughly 6,500 MBTA employees are eligible to start collecting pensions – meeting the requisite 23 years of service and 55 years of age, according to Brian Shortsleeve, the transit system's chief administrator.
