Scallop dinner in 25 minutes

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by Josh Resnek

If you don’t care for deep sea scallops, well, don’t read this story about Sunday evening dinner at my house.

I don’t think it matters very much where you buy deep sea scallops. I prefer Market Basket and the fish store on Atlantic Avenue in Marblehead. There is about a $5.00 per pound difference in price for a pound between these two. I bought 12 scallops for $21.00 in Marblehead.

I take the scallops and soak them in beaten eggs in a flat plate. I make sure to turn them over several times.

Then I drop each one of them gently into a flat plate of seasoned panko crumbs. I season the crumbs myself with my favorite seasonings – a sprinkle of coarse Jewish salt and pepper, and a hearty sprinkling of a zesty mix of seasonings you might expect to be poured onto a piece of sirloin before grilling.

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Maddox revealed DUI, Minor offenses

by Josh Resnek

Wynn Resorts President Matt Maddox has been arrested in the past for alcohol possession, marijuana possession and Driving While Intoxicated (DUI) according to a review of testimony Maddox gave to the Investigations Bureau of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission in 2013.

An examination of the information reveals the arrests prior to the 2011 DUI came earlier in his life when he was under 20.

The DUI occurred in on October 25, 2011.

On their way home from a night out, Maddox and his wife, Katherine, came upon an accident on the road. Police were questioning drivers in the traffic backup.

Police ordered Maddox out of his car.

After conducting a field sobriety test, he was placed under arrest and taken to the police station where a breathalyzer test showed a .16 reading indicating he was intoxicated.

Maddox told investigators he had attended a concert with his wife at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas as a birthday present for her.

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Looking at Politics

by Josh Resnek

All eyes and ears, every element of the city’s heated political rumor mill, and even among the knowing city hall insiders, the Ward 6 contest is taking shape and form.

It will prove to be the race to watch.

The candidates and from whom they gather their political strength is at play.

At risk – absolutely nothing – except for pride and some added clout at city hall for the mayor and for Al Lattanzi if he can win.

Lattanzi is the first timer hoping to unseat the incumbent Michael Mclaughlin.

If Lattanzi is unable to perform an upset, he returns to his hard ware store in Main Street.

McLaughlin, if he defeats Lattanzi as he is saying he is going to do, would likely return to a city council where his stature will have risen by several marks for such a performance against so powerful and connected an opponent.

McLaughlin’s signatures were certified about 48 hours after he took out his nomination papers.

Lattanzi is still gathering his signatures.

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Can parking be controlled; or will it be uncontrollable?

by Josh Resnek

The casino opening June 23 is bearing down on us, coming inevitably closer with the mass and weight of a speeding freight train.

Encore executives John Tocco and Encore’s traffic guru, Jim Folk, appeared before the city council last week to a great deal of fanfare.

The city council had been awaiting for a long time this presentation.

It was intended to explain the over under of traffic and parking when the casino opens its doors. It did just that. 

It bears repeating again and again in articles devoted to casino traffic and its possible effect here on the quality of life, that the casino depends on traffic and crowds for its economic vitality and viability.

Without traffic the casino fails its mission.

“I am telling you there is going to be traffic and we know that,” said Encore’s Folk.

His take on the matter was simple: it’s the opening of one of the largest entertainment and hotel venues on the East Coast. It is going to bring traffic to a halt, especially at the beginning.

He cautioned the councilors not to fear the traffic but to live with it at the start, and then to watch how the difficulties are handled.

“What we can do is mitigate it with our plan. If we see traffic hot spots we can adjust accordingly,” Folk said.

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Wynn Resorts President Matt Maddox Assaulted by Wife Three Days Before Paying $35.5 million fine

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Wynn Resorts CEO, Matt Maddox.

by Josh Resnek

Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox was repeatedly punched and kicked by his wife during an outing to a Las Vegas steak house on their 17th wedding anniversary, according to reports in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Inside T-Bones Chophouse at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, Katherine Maddox, his wife of 17 years, became angry about something shortly after finishing dinner.

Maddox reported to police that she hit him twice in the face, and kicked him once. 

Mrs. Maddox told police the attack happened once they had arrived home and that she had slapped him several times with an open hand when he tried to grab her cell-phone, this, according to details revealed in Mrs. Maddox arrest report, as detailed in the Las Vegas Review Journal.

What really happened?

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