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Adam Reilly and Peter Kadzis talk about Boston Mayor Marty Walsh negotiating an $18 million deal with Mohegan Sun, which wants to build a casino in Revere.

Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis and David Bernstein talk round up some political odds and ends.

Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis and David Bernstein talk about Mayor Marty Walsh's contract negotiations with the firefighters' union.

Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis and special guest Gintautas Dumcius — of The Dorchester Reporter and soon to be of State House News Service — evaluate Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's first 100 days in office.

The other day at Harvard, Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory explained to a group of solons-in-training at the Kennedy School of Government that, despite cutbacks over the last decade, the Globe remains a vital source of “accountability journalism."

As if on cue, metro columnist Adrian Walker served up a splendid example of the accountability genre in the next day’s paper. Walker heralded the Reverends Bruce Wall and Eugene Rivers for presenting French transit firm Keolis, a subsidiary of the French-government-owned SNCF, an “invoice” for $105,000.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says Boston should have a vote on the proposed Revere and Everett casinos, and that the Massachusetts Gaming Commission doesn't have the authority to determine whether or not Boston is a "host community" for the abutting casino developments.

Adam Reilly and Peter Kadzis break down the strategy.

In our inaugural Hiberno-Scrum, Adam Reilly poses the question: By trying to get the organizers of the St. Patrick's Day parade to allow LGBT marchers, did he mistakenly given them an outsize platform? 

Peter Kadzis and David Bernstein come into the parlor to discuss.