Lori McCole is afraid that her daughter could get run over on the way to school by a gambler who has been up all night drinking. Samantha Pakech worries about traffic jams and property values falling. Christopher Tucker asks if some kid will repeat his own childhood and end up sleeping in a car outside a casino while a parent blows the rent or mortgage money inside. Go to the sections of the city where a casino could rise and you will hear a litany of reasons that the negatives may outweigh any benefits that slots parlors can bring to […]
GAMBLOR: Sunlight Still The Best Disinfectant And TOTALLY Worth Going To Jail For
Anti-casino rally in Harrisburg; 14 arrested Fourteen anti-casino protestors were arrested today at the Gaming Control Board offices in Harrisburg when they demanded to see documents about proposed casinos that they say are being withheld from the public. The group was among 50 demonstrators who travelled in two buses from Philadelphia in a bid to delay the scheduled announcement of two casino sites in the city on Dec. 20. The protestors rallied in a park outside the Statehouse before marching to the Gaming Control Offices in a building located across the street. Those arrested included two women in wheelchairs. Police […]
IT’S ACADEMIC: Rendell IS Gamblor
FROM THE ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL: “The governor recently told the Lancaster New Era editorial board that for every one person addicted to gambling or who lost a pay check to gambling, he can show us 500 who go and have the time of their life. I wonder how these numbers were produced. They are far out of line with the best social science research in the state and the country about the numbers of people with gambling compulsions. Let us compare the governor’s numbers with those produced by national experts regarding the prevalence of gambling problems in the general adult […]