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Calling All Flatlanders

by: JimC

Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 10:58:41 AM EDT
Blue Mass Group needs you!

I know it's more fun to hang out here with the people who actually pick the president, but we have to mind the store! They're putting casinos in day care centers here in the People's Repubic.

Blue Mass Group is also ugly compared to Blue Hampshire, but I can't complain alone, you have to back me up.

So come home every once in a while. Thanks to this big truck called the Internet, you can be in both places at once -- and still be nowhere at all.
JimC :: Calling All Flatlanders
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Calling All Flatlanders | 3 comments
And by the way (4.00 / 1)
You -- um -- highlanders are welcome too. Only fair that if carpetbag, we should allow carpetbagging.

Maybe I'll make some trouble and post something on BMG called "Shouldn't WE Have the First Primary?"

Maybe not ...


I'm following the casino stuff (0.00 / 0)
I get the Globe each day -- it's 75 cents here and there's no home delivery.

My own view is that, independent of the other social issues surrounding them, casinos are a "race to the bottom" problem for states. I'm secretly, guiltily glad that there's talk of two casinos in Massachusetts -- that makes New Hampshire fantasies of a gambling bailout of state finances much less credible. (New England can only support so many casinos before  profit margins drop markedly.)

Casinos make no sense in New England (0.00 / 0)
They only make sense in places like Atlantic City, which was truly dead before the casinos came in, or Las Vegas, which didn't exist.

I'm sympathetic to the Indian tribes, but there comes a point where you say enough is enough. I wish Middleborough had shown some pride.

Though that said, one aspect of this has been undercovered -- the second town vote. The first vote was on the deal and passed handily. The second vote was "Do you want a casino?" or some such, and it was defeated. (Dan Kennedy wrote about this on his blog Media Nation, and called out the Globe for neglecting the second vote.)

So the speculation is, the town feared rejecting the deal, because then it might get a casino without the millions, but didn't actually want the casino.

And it may not matter -- had Middleborough said no, Menino was willing to house it in East Boston! Madness.

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