News: Gaming expansion, the subject of referendum questions on Election Day ballots in three Northeast states, appear to be a long shot, except in Rhode Island. Ocean State voters will weigh in on a proposal to locate a $75 million “convenience” casino in Tiverton, a town of 15,000 people on the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay.

Business: Tony Suarez, who has been operating Northern Light Gems for 25 years, relocated from Mystic to New London five years ago, and has found customers in the city are serious about buying.

Daybreak: Something as seemingly pedestrian as a cheeseburger or french fries or an old-school jar of Vaseline are imbued with irony and whimsy in a Walter Robinson exhibition of 34 works at the Mystic Museum of Art.

Perspective: Less than two weeks before their 18th Senate District race will be decided, Democrat Timothy Bowles and Republican Heather Somers write dueling op-ed pieces.