Wynn Resorts announced today it's changing the name of its Everett casino to Encore Boston Harbor in a bid to remove the taint of sharing a name with Steve Wynn, who until recently ran the company bearing his name.
The announcement came at a Massachusetts Gaming Commission hearing on whether to formally strip alleged serial sexual attacker Steve Wynn of his right to have anything to do with gambling in Massachusetts. Commissioners will consider the issue privately before announcing a decision.
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And who exactly is this
By anon
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 6:03pm
And who exactly is this suppose to make feel better? Not gamblers I'm sure
Wynn's victims?
By statler
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:12am
I would imagine that having to see his name plastered on buildings and advertisements isn't a lot of fun?
This seems like a small concession, I'm really not sure why anyone would be opposed or even bothered by it.
Am I crazy...
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 7:42pm
or is this shithole on the Mystic River and nowhere near Boston Harbor?
Different name, still the same old rapist scumbag who owns it.
Not anymore
By E
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 7:47pm
Steve Wynn sold all of his shares in Wynn Resorts, he has nothing to do with the company anymore.
Right.
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 8:24pm
Sure. No say whatsoever.
Here's the proof
By E
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 9:33pm
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018...
Where does Boston Harbor end?
By Ron Newman
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 10:51pm
Some might say it ends at the Amelia Earhart Dam just upriver from the casino site, which divides salt water from fresh and tidal from non-tidal.
ThenMystic River ends at the eponymously named bridge
By Michael Fahey
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 9:20pm
Where it and the Chelsea Creek, called the Chelsea River on some maps, empty into Boston Harbor.
We fixed racism AND sexual assault!
By Lunchbox
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 8:17pm
We just gotta keep re-naming stuff!
It doesn't "fix" anything
By statler
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:14am
Good thing no one said that it does.
As I said above it is just a small concession. Not really anything to get worked up about.
State should require Wynn to fund+build bridge to Assembly Row
By Ron Newman
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 10:46pm
as a condition of keeping this license. Now that the state has some leverage over Wynn, use it for a constructive purpose that will benefit the region.
Just curious
By Will LaTulippe
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 12:14am
What was your stance on La Cosa Nostra and the Winter Hill Gang? They used force to take things from people too.
sometimes
By cybah
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 6:21am
Sometimes you have a valid point.
But I agree with Ron. I think it would benefit the casino itself if a bridge was built.
The Winter Hill gang?
By Brian Riccio
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 8:52am
Gee, Will! When the Winter Hill gang was having fun all over Somerville, you were where exactly? Spend a lot of time playing pinochle with Howie?
And I suppose you were
By dotratfromwayback
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 1:24pm
And I suppose you were driving Howie Winter around in your limo?
No....
By Brian Riccio
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 3:37pm
but I'd see him every now and again at Khoury's. You?
I'm not a tough guy by
By dotratfromwayback
Sun, 04/29/2018 - 10:37am
I'm not a tough guy by association. But I know a guy who's uncle was murdered by Winter Hill associates. Nice friends you have there.
Neither am I...
By Brian Riccio
Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:08am
I was just a kid from Revere, living with a Townie girl for eight years who liked to drink. That's how I got to see Howie. Never met the man once.
But you inferred that you
By anon
Sun, 04/29/2018 - 11:19am
But you inferred that you were acquainted with him in your original post. Why do you try to pass yourself off as an internet tough guy by "knowing people"?
Actually...
By Brian Riccio
Sun, 04/29/2018 - 8:04pm
I said I would see him. I did not say we were acquainted. I inferred nothing. If I knew him I would have said so. The rest is the usual nonsense.
Yeah
By SamWack
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 5:12pm
and the Eisenhower-Montgomery Gang used force to take over those neighborhoods in Normandy. Thugs, the lot of them. Government violence, Cosa Nostra, all the same thing.
If I recall correctly, the
By ZachAndTired
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 10:21am
If I recall correctly, the Wynn group originally wanted to build a pedestrian bridge to Assembly Row, but the company that owns Assembly Row shut it down because they didn't want people parking in their lots and walking to the casino.
Please link to your source for this
By Ron Newman
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 5:28pm
because it is new to me, and I would like to learn more about it.
It's entirely possible that I
By ZachAndTired
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 7:50pm
It's entirely possible that I'm completely imaging this, but I could have sworn I read it on UHub like a year or so ago.
It wasn't assembly that said no
By anon
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 7:43pm
It was Curtatone and his anti-gambling pogrom
Can't believe you missed an
By anon
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 11:07pm
Can't believe you missed an opportunity to use the headline: Wynn loses
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