Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has been taking a lot of shots lately. His indecision about hosting the Olympic Games in 2024 prompted the US Olympic Committee to abandon Boston and head for Los Angeles. US Attorney Carmen Ortiz blasted the mayor for mounting a “vicious lawsuit” against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. He also was ridiculed for refusing to release texts he exchanged with his chief of staff about the Olympic bid because he said his administration lacked the technical expertise to retrieve them.

And now Steve Wynn is calling the mayor a liar. “I’ve had enough of Mayor Walsh,” Wynn told Globe columnist Joan Vennochi. “I can’t negotiate with him. The man is obviously irresponsible.”

Here’s the context. Walsh is suing the Gaming Commission in court to block Wynn’s proposed casino in Everett. He says the casino is located partly in Boston and the Gaming Commission erred by not giving Charlestown residents an opportunity to vote on whether they want it. But he has also suggested on more than one occasion that more money from Wynn might make his lawsuit go away.

On July 29, Wynn held a conference call with financial analysts to discuss his company’s second-quarter results. At the end of the call, just before he was about to hang up, Wynn launched into his aw-shucks routine about how it’s hard for him to understand how someone willing to spend $1.7 billion building a hotel and casino on what amounts to a “chemical dump” in Everett can’t find a welcome mat from local officials.

On July 31, Walsh appeared on Boston Public Radio with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan and disclosed that Wynn had called him just after hanging up with the financial analysts. He also revealed that Wynn had thrown a nine-figure sum at him to settle their ongoing dispute and agreed to confer face to face after Labor Day.

Wynn officials, taken aback by Walsh’s disclosure of the fledgling negotiations, insisted no sum of money was discussed during the call other than the $300 million the company has already spent on its casino efforts in Massachusetts. Steve Wynn called the mayor back to correct the record. According to Wynn officials, Walsh acknowledged there may have been a misunderstanding but he nevertheless issued a statement saying he stood by his remarks.

That didn’t sit well with Wynn, who called Vennochi and tore into the mayor. Wynn said the second call with Walsh ended badly. “I’m told you want the citizens of Charlestown to vote,” Vennochi quotes Wynn as telling the mayor. “That will happen over my dead body.” Wynn said Walsh responded by saying the two men had nothing more to talk about and hung up.

—BRUCE MOHL

BEACON HILL

Greater Boston has separate discussions on the push behind a ballot question to legalize marijuana possession and a proposal by a governor’s councilor to decriminalize the use of heroin.

The Eagle-Tribune, in an editorial, says Main Street merchants are at a disadvantage because they have to collect sales taxes that online merchants can ignore. But the newspaper says the solution is cutting taxes, and reducing spending, not necessarily leveling the playing field between online and bricks and mortar retailers.

An Item editorial criticizes Gov. Charlie Baker for wearing a “Free Brady” T-shirt during an ALS ice bucket challenge.

Former Senate president Therese Murray grows her legal defense fund with help from political insiders. (State House News)

MUNICIPAL MATTERS

Andover selectmen voted 3-2 to hire two people to help the town reduce opioid overdoses. Seven people in Andover have died of overdoses this year, including two over the weekend. (Eagle-Tribune) Eleven people in Lowell and Dracut suffered overdoses over the weekend, three of them fatal. (Lowell Sun)

Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera uses old-school tactics to push for change. (CommonWealth)

Former Attleboro mayor Judith Robbins was killed when her car crashed into a parked bus. Police say the lack of skid marks indicate she may have suffered a “medical event” before the crash. (Sun Chronicle)

Lowell makes an aggressive push to interest developers in the stalled Hamilton Canal project. (The Sun)

Danvers fire chief Kevin Farrell is fired for conduct unbecoming someone in his position. Officials declined to talk about the reasons for the firing, but it appears to have something to do with Farrell obtaining license information on an out-of-town car. (Salem News)

Brockton City Councilor Jass Stewart wants the city to conduct a study that he believes will lead to reducing the number of supervisors in the Police Department while increasing the number of rank and file officers. (The Enterprise)

OLYMPICS

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says he cannot eliminate all risk in hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, but he says the risk is minimal and the odds are strong the city will turn a profit. (Los Angeles Times)

CASINOS

Officials from Plainridge Park Casino handed over the first of its monthly quarter-million dollar checks to the town of Plainville as part of the host community agreement. (Sun Chronicle)

WASHINGTON/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

St. Louis County officials declared a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, to take control of policing in the roiling city following the shooting of an 18-year-old by police during protests of the one-year anniversary of the officer-involved shooting death of Michael Brown. (New York Times)

Two reporters who were arrested while covering the riots in Ferguson last year, including former Globe reporter Wes Lowery, now with the Washington Post, have been charged with trespassing and interfering with police just one week before the window closed to file charges. (New York Times)

A mother shoots and kills a social worker in Barre, Vermont, after losing custody of her daughter. (Burlington Free Press)

ELECTIONS

Telegram & Gazette columnist Dianne Williamson says, yes, Donald Trump speaks his mind and it is refreshing. “Popsicles are refreshing, too, but we still need substance in our diet,” she says. The Herald’s Peter Gelzinis went in search of outrage from Massachusetts GOP women, including Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, on Trump’s outburst against Megyn Kelly, but couldn’t find any. Elspeth Reeve says Fox News created the Trump monster that it’s now trying to kill. (The New Republic)

Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig plans to launch a protest run for the Democratic nomination for president. (New York Times)

Springfield is the latest community to move its preliminary election to avoid a conflict with Rosh Hashana, with the City Council voting to push the date up a week to September 8. (The Republican)

Low turnouts in municipal elections can be avoided by shifting the contests to coincide with state and national elections, which typically generate higher turnouts. (Governing)

BUSINESS/ECONOMY

Google has created a parent holding company, called Alphabet, to be the umbrella for the ever-expanding technology giant. (U.S. News & World Report)

HEALTH/HEALTH CARE

Lawmakers, with backing from a major advocacy group and an association representing health insurers, file legislation that would allow for caps on the price of high-cost drugs. (Boston Globe)

A study finds that NFL players who began playing tackle football before age 12 have a greater risk of “altered brain development.” (Boston Globe)

The National Labor Relations Board has lodged a complaint against Southcoast Hospital Group saying officials at Tobey Hospital in Wareham bargained in bad faith with the nurses’ union. (Standard-Times)

Lois Simon, the head of a health plan that is part of a state initiative to better coordinate care for high-need poor residents that is racking up big losses, says the effort should be given more time to prove itself. (Boston Globe)

TRANSPORTATION

The state Department of Transportation is finding itself on the hook to cover shortfalls in vendor revenue just months after agreeing to a deal to have a private firm take over the management of Back Bay Station. (Boston Globe)

California regulators and taxi interests are looking to bottle up Uber, writes Tim Cavanaugh in City Journal. Uber is serving New York City’s outer boroughs more than taxis are. (FiveThirtyEight)

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station had to power down on Sunday because the temperature of the ocean water used to cool the plant exceeded 75 degrees, the second time in the plant’s 43-year history that has happened. (Cape Cod Times)

Economy BMWs? Apparently so, as the town of Dartmouth partners with the German carmaker to lease three all-electric vehicles for municipal use. (Standard-Times)

A Metrowest Daily News editorial calls for lifting the net metering cap on solar power.

Braintree officials approved a plan to lease the roofs of two schools to a company to install solar panel arrays that will generate 1.3 million kilowatts of electricity and then sell it to residents at a locked-in 10-year rate of 15 cents per kilowatt hour, roughly the current price. (Patriot Ledger)

Elyse Cherry and Tedd Saunders say solar power’s benefits outweigh its costs.(CommonWealth)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh distances himself from comments by his police commissioner, William Evans, that there should be limits on citizen recording of police encounters. (Boston Herald) The Herald runs down four recent incidents of troubling police conduct, two of them in the region, that would not be documented without citizen video of the event. A Globe editorial says Boston should move toward use of police-worn body cameras and it says Evans’s comments about limiting citizen recording of incidents is taking things in the wrong direction.

A Quincy lawyer says one of his former clients can identify the man from the recently released 25-year-old video taken the day before the infamous Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist. (Patriot Ledger)