![]() ![]() ![]() Just over two of every 10 registered voters even bothered to cast ballots in the Sept. Midway through the general election cycle, the top Democrats and Republicans running for statewide offices, including four open seats, have still not engaged each other in one-on-one debates, leaving voters to judge their options, if they are even paying attention, through carefully worded tweets and prepared statements, slogans and soundbites, and any coverage that the media can provide. (Above, Cathy Judd-Stein, chair of the Mass Gaming Commission) On Friday afternoon, they voted to identify "late January" as the launch date for in-person sports betting at casinos and the state's slots parlor and to identify "early March" as the targeted launch date for mobile sports betting. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission did ultimately differentiate itself from legislative leaders, who still can't find agreement, or at least an accord that will net the required unanimous vote, on how much to spend to help businesses and job-seekers compete and aid taxpayers struggling with high inflation. Up until Friday afternoon, one answer was clear: paralyzing indecisiveness. Michele McPhee is a freelance journalist based in Boston and a frequent ABC News contributor.What do a regulatory panel of legal gambling experts and Democrats in charge of wielding supermajority margins in the House and Senate have in common? The FBI declined to comment for this report. Palmucci said one of his constituents traced the tail number to a small airfield in Virginia that has links to the FBI. "There was no doubt they were looking at our neighborhood so folks were very uneasy and they started to question whether there was some imminent public danger," he said. Palmucci believes the community should have been told more to calm people who were already on edge because of the bombings. The councilman said he was told by the FAA, "It's not a drone, we're aware of the flight and it's authorized." The FAA confirmed their previous comment to Palmucci, which was reported by the Patriot Ledger, to ABC News but declined to comment further, directing additional questions to "law enforcement." Local police said Quincy residents wrote down the tail number of the low-flying plane, which prompted police to reach out to Federal Aviation Authority officials. It started a couple of weeks after the bombing and lasted for over a month," Palmucci said. ![]() Quincy Ward 4 Councilman Brian Palmucci said he and his wife had brought home their first child around the time of the marathon attack and "were up at all hours 24 hours a day so we were very well aware of when these planes were flying." He described two different single engine "Cessna-type" planes doing figure eights every eight minutes around west Quincy for more than a month. READ: Friend of Accused Boston Bomber Charged With Obstruction Federal prosecutors said Matanov failed to reveal all he knew about the brothers and later deleted computer files that might link them to him. The FBI had been interested in him since April 19, 2013, four days after the blasts killed three and injured more than 260, when Matanov, a cab driver, went to local police to say he knew Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged bombers. Matanov, 23, was charged last week with obstructing the investigation into the marathon bombing. The two single engine "Cessna-type" planes that residents spotted flying for more than a month were being used in connection with the surveillance of Khairullozhon Matanov, law enforcement sources told ABC News, confirming a report that first appeared in the Patriot Ledger. were not imagining things when they reported seeing small aircraft circling above Common Street in the weeks after twin pressure cooker bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013. ![]()
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