It’s been open only a week — so it’s still very early — but already there are concerns that the new $4.2 billion Wynn Palace casino and hotel in Macau is off to a slow start.

Wynn Resorts, the same Las Vegas company that is building a $2.1 billion hotel and casino project in Everett, opened the Palace on August 22. Analysts say the 1,700-room hotel, complete with floral sculptures that move and a $100 million fountain show, is spectacular. But the property is not drawing a lot of new tourists to the area and may be cannibalizing customers that previously went to Wynn’s other casino in Macau and other competitors.

The Wynn Palace is opening at a time when gambling is on a downward trend in Macau. The former Portuguese colony was once a gambling mecca, and Wynn and other casinos there profited handsomely. But a government crackdown on corruption on the Chinese mainland has caused many high rollers to shy away. Betting has fallen 36 percent over the last two years.

Wynn’s big bet on Macau has taken a toll on the company’s stock. As high as $250 a share in 2014, Wynn Resorts shares are now trading at close to $91. The share price has slipped about 6 percent since the opening of Wynn Palace.

While many of his competitors are optimistic that growing numbers of tourists (what casino operators call the mass market) are starting to flock to Macau, Steve Wynn has been cautious about the peninsula’s potential to become a Las Vegas of the Orient.  “The last two places that opened did not cause the market to grow, did they? No. Will this one? Good question,” he told Bloomberg. “We’ll get an answer to that in September or October. I’m anxious to see it myself.”

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BEACON HILL

A legislative scorecard put out by Associated Industries of Massachusetts confirms the Massachusetts House and Senate, while both controlled by Democrats, are very different politically. (State House News)

The Trump-loving governor of Maine, Paul LePage, who shoots from the hip with racially-charged comments, and fellow Republican governor Charlie Baker, who has fashioned an image as a non-ideological problem-solver, make for a study in sharp contrasts. (Boston Globe)

MUNICIPAL MATTERS

A Herald editorial slams the Boston patrolmen’s union over its efforts to block a pilot study of body-worn cameras.

Selectmen in Dudley waive their option to buy land that the Islamic Society of Worcester wants to purchase for a Muslim cemetery. (Telegram & Gazette)

WASHINGTON/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

Gov. Paul LePage of Maine elaborated on his comment that blacks and Hispanic drug dealers from across New England are responsible for most of the opioids coming into his state. He singled out Lowell and Lawrence as exporters, while insisting that whites in his state are mostly arrested for methamphetamines. (State House News) Lowell officials bristled at LePage’s comments, with City Councilor Dan Rourke calling the Maine governor “pathetic and ignorant.” Lawrence officials also take umbrage. (Masslive)

ELECTIONS

John Walsh explains why he thinks grassroots opposition to Question 2, which would allow more charter schools, is growing. (CommonWealth)

A citizens’ committee drafts pro and con arguments on the marijuana legalization ballot question. (Masslive)

Donald Trump has done no television advertising in New Hampshire, despite it being a crucial swing state. (Boston Globe)

Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has split with her husband, former congressman and New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, after the latest scandal of pictures he sexted to another woman surface. (U.S. News & World Report) Donald Trump says he’s worried about Clinton’s decision-making and whether national security had been compromised. (New York Times) And to that suggestion, Peter Gelzinis says, “Only a self-absorbed lout, working on his third marriage, would be weasel enough to hint at treason in the ruins of Huma Abedin’s marriage.”

For black Republicans, Trump is a bridge too far. (Boston Globe)

The Herald endorses Katie Forde for the obscure, but secure, post of Suffolk County Register of Deeds after first stating the obvious — that’s it’s ridiculous that this is an elected post.

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

The number of homeless families living in motels in the South Coast region has dropped from 71 last year to just eight as the new school year begins, reflecting a similar trend statewide as the Baker administration looks to move the families to more suitable locations. (Herald News)

Rich foreign investors continue to snap up multi-million-dollar Boston condos. (Boston Globe)

European Union regulators ordered Apple to pay up to $14.5 billion to Ireland, which allegedly granted the tech giant illegal tax benefits. (Time)

A new report from the Commerce Department shows after-tax income for American consumers rose 0.4 percent last month, the largest increase this year and one that officials say bodes well for the critical third quarter. (U.S. News & World Report)

EDUCATION

More black and Hispanic students are enrolled this year in a free district-operated tutoring program in Boston that helps them prepare to the take the test that determines admission to the city’s three public exam schools. Officials at some Boston schools said earlier this year they didn’t even know of the program’s existence. (Boston Globe)

Harvard is digitizing more than 40 million pages of case law so anybody can read the cases online for free. (WBUR)

The University of Wisconsin-Madison was named the top party school while UMass Amherst, once a perennial contender on the list for its revelry, has the best cafeteria food, according to this year’s college rankings by the Princeton Review. And if your priorities actually lean toward academics, Wellesley College has the best teachers. (Associated Press)

TRANSPORTATION

After a second Uber driver is arrested, Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria says the background checks that the transportation networking company is conducting are not working. (Masslive)

Boston city councilors Michelle Wu and Josh Zakim pen an op-ed decrying cuts in MBTA janitorial services. (Boston Globe)

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT

With its original plan to finance a natural gas pipeline shot down by a Supreme Judicial Court ruling, the Baker administration is exploring other ways to get a pipeline built. At a conference in Boston of New England governors and Canadian premiers, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan raises some environmental concerns about importing more fracked gas. (CommonWealth)

Gov. Charlie Baker invites MIT dean Ian Waitz to address the New England governors and premiers on the energy potential of nuclear fusion. (State House News) Another MIT official, Professor Dennis Whyte, made a similar pitch in a recent Q&A with Edward M. Murphy in CommonWealth. General Electric announces plans to join an MIT-run energy research initiative, and it pledges $7.5 million to the effort. (Boston Globe)

An algae bloom resembling an oil slick that poses no harm to humans but can trigger high fish kills has invaded the waters in southeast Massachusetts. (Standard-Times)

An unusual visitor has been spotted on Cape Cod as monitors are keeping an eye on an apparently healthy, albeit misguided, manatee frolicking in warm waters around Harwich. (Cape Cod Times)

HEALTH/HEALTH CARE

Unbranded ads are sneakily steering consumers to EpiPens and other high-cost pharmaceutical products (STAT)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/COURTS

A Holliston man was arrested and charged with terrorism after FBI officials say he was stockpiling weapons and explosives and allegedly making threats to kill President Obama as well as wreak mayhem on Muslims. (MetroWest Daily News)

The chief justice of the state’s district courts says a Palmer District Court judge acted within the bounds of his judicial authority in sentencing an 18-year-old to two years probation following his conviction on indecent assault and battery charges. The sentence has drawn widespread condemnation. (Boston Globe)

A Quincy police lieutenant was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of embezzlement and mail fraud for allegedly double-dipping on the police payroll. (Patriot Ledger)

The father of a Lunenburg teenager killed while riding in a car driven by a good friend, who is charged with vehicular homicide and driving under the influence following a high-speed crash over the weekend, wants the 19-year-old defendant, who faces up to 15 years in prison, to instead talk to young people about the dangers of speeding and alcohol. (Boston Herald)

A Springfield couple is facing charges of open and gross lewdness for having sex on their kitchen floor in front of their children. (Masslive)

A Sharon rabbi who took money from his congregation when he became the target of blackmail will avoid jail after a judge dismissed a charge of larceny and continued without a finding a charge of embezzlement. (Patriot Ledger)