The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) on Thursday selected Loretta Lillios as Director of the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau (IEB). The MGC’s four commissioners voted unanimously to approve the hiring of Ms. Lillios, who has been with the MGC since 2014, serving first as Deputy General Counsel and then as Chief Enforcement Counsel/Deputy Director of IEB. Most recently, she has served since September 2020 as Interim Director of IEB.
As Chief Enforcement Counsel and Deputy Director, IEB, Ms. Lillios’ work focused on protecting the public interest and ensuring the integrity of legal gaming in Massachusetts. She has been responsible for overseeing suitability investigations of applicants for gaming licensure, monitoring the ongoing suitability of corporate casino qualifiers, and overseeing the preparation of enforcement actions involving licensee noncompliance with gaming requirements.
Until recently, it used an admissions test to choose pupils.
But that s now been dropped under pressure from campaigners such as the Black Lives Matter movement, who
complain that entrance exams discriminate against African-American children and those from poorer backgrounds. TJ now intends to improve the diversity of its intake by
looking at experience factors, which include economically disadvantaged students, English language learners, special education students, or students currently attending under-represented middle schools. Some have even pushed for admission to be decided through random lotteries.
The decision has invoked fury on both sides, with parents and campaigners clashing in demonstrations outside the school.
Harold Siagel
Harold Siagel died of natural causes on Jan. 10, 2021 at the Highlands in Topsham, Maine at the age of 89.
Harold was larger than life in many ways, always finding means to help others out. Harold was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 3, 1931 and was the youngest of six siblings. He attended Boston Latin and could recall versus from Shakespeare from that time well into his eighties. He attended Boston University and Suffolk where he took business classes and was part of the crew team.
His career is a tale of American bootstrap-success, luck, and an appetite for risk. Harold was an entrepreneur having started at least eleven businesses across multiple industries: whiskey bottling, steel shredding plant, steel casting mill, two restaurants and a night club, two furniture manufacturing companies, pest control, glass and aluminum recycling business, computer services, environmental services, and van and a camper conversion business. Many of Harold’s business
Ava Callender Concepcion appointed to Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, filling public safety seat
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Concepcion, of Dorchester, was appointed by the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.
Most recently, Concepcion served as the director of governmental affairs and external partnerships for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, where she advised on legislation and policy, Healey’s office said in a statement.
“Ava brings a strong background in public safety and experience working with a range of stakeholders including law enforcement, advocacy organizations, and constituents on important policy matters,”
Healey said. “As a lifelong resident of Boston, Ava has dedicated her career to social justice and her perspective will be extremely valuable to the Commission in promoting safety, equity, and opportunity.”