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Posted on December 14 at 10:31 a.m.
end of the article :
2. Roads and pipes. How much more traffic do you think I-290 can handle? I consider myself lucky to exit with all four wheels still on. In Maine, we found that a casino would add 23,000 vehicle trips per day to our main roads. That number includes trucks and buses. Where will the buses idle after the gamblers disembark? Green Hill Park?
Anybody up to date on our current sewer woes should instantly realize how much an extra 60,000 toilet flushes per day will impact our water treatment plant, never mind the communities along the Blackstone all the way down to Providence.
3. Crime. According to Maine's State Police Chief, enforcement of gambling sites would strain existing police forces, requiring expansion of departments as well as increased overtime. Drunk driving increases around casinos putting all of us a little more at risk of that well-documented scourge. Local addicts will need treatment for yet another family destroying bad habit. We will need a bigger jail, again.
4. Energy drain. At a time when we need a new energy equation, a casino would lure automobile traffic and increase electricity demand, thereby increasing the costs of both forms of energy for all of us. In more ways than one, a casino is a reverse ATM.
5. Rolling craps. Even so, another casino, so near Connecticut and Rhode Island competition is no guarantee of increased revenue for the city. What if the casino struggles? The same has happened in other parts of the country where casinos have closed their doors due to saturation of the market. Who thinks Foxwoods would lose a battle with a Worcester upstart? Who wants to take them on?
Why bother with that route at all when we could have sustainable economic development like energy technology industries. We could convert our deserted mills into production plants for wind turbines and LED light bulbs. We could reach out to neighboring communities to develop agricultural resources to protect ourselves from the risk of eating Chinese rat poison. We could have wind and solar energy at the moribund airport. If we did all this, we could expand our higher education base and spread knowledge of sustainable practices and help ourselves as well as the rest of the world. Why settle for less?"
Ready for all of those consequences, fellows ???
Posted on December 14 at 10:30 a.m.
Mr. Cooper, why don't we have such articles as the one following in the democrat ???
From Jonathan Cook, journalist/economist (just replace a few names and this article will fit for Natchez) :
"1. Jobs. Casinos create thousand of jobs that do not pay a livable wage. If Worcester votes to consider siting a casino here, expect a sales pitch that will throw numbers at us about "high-paying jobs." Rest assured, these dice will be loaded. The very high payed upper management will be averaged in with the vast majority of very low paying jobs to make it seem like this is smart job growth.
It is stupid job growth because it will compete with the booming homegrown restaurant business we already have, a business that depends heavily on immigrant labor. Therefore, a casino will mean a huge influx of new immigrants. Are we prepared to meet this expansion in terms of housing, schooling and health care?
According to the mayor of Ledyard, the South American immigration to his region resulted in slums where families can not afford the going rate for rental properties and have to double-up or "hotbed," meaning casino workers share bedrooms on opposite shifts. Ask yourself what this will do for those in this community who already struggle to maintain a place to live? We hardly need a sudden surge in low-income housing demand.
Posted on December 14 at 10:22 a.m.
I hope they will put a taco bell on the parking lot too !
Ntz people are destroying the most beautiful view on the river in the USA. We needed trees and benches, NOT a 50 million $ complex.
We should know that "Crime rates in casino communities are 84% higher than the national average". Look up on the internet. and find out the consequences for a community.
Cheap jobs do not help families. Natchezians do not have a long term vision. Dumb short term profits is the rule !
Please read this (I think one casino is more than enough):
http://worcester.indymedia.org/node/1331...
Natchezian should talk about facts !!!
Posted on December 12 at 10:49 a.m.
We can finance the arrival of a private jail (water will be free, for instance), but not a monument ??? NTZ citizens could accept the construction of a huge (and ugly) convention center that is ruining the city, but not a monument ??? The real problem is : most of the white people of Natchez do not want to remember the dark side of "the good old days" (63% of the today pole said no to the monument, don't search for fake excuses)...
Posted on December 11 at 1:12 p.m.
Okay firered, and I'll get you some coupons for the new taco bell they will open in the fort rosalie !
Posted on December 11 at noon
Yep, the crackhead is missing on the picture.
Yeah NEW place to check out in Natchez ! Taxes will increase, crimes rates too ! GREAT !!! Let's put some more concrete on the bluff ! I have a dream : a giant casino in the middle of the homochitto forest, slot machines on the Trace ! with outside pools haha for buttercup26 (who is, by the way, a genius !). Why not a Forks of the road casino ???
Posted on December 11 at 11:45 a.m.
Thank you Savage for that drop of cleverness in the ocean of prejudices !
Posted on December 10 at 12:52 p.m.
Don't you enjoy Roth Hill? Don't you like walking on the banks of the Mississippi River? Is everybody happy with a huge structure on a natural area and a parking lot where we should have a park with trees and benches to sit on. I know, a park, that sounds crazy. Imagine : a public space where people could sit and talk, where children could play and enjoy the view of the great river : THAT IS INSANE. A casino is great : a beautiful parking lot, people who are coming to lose money. What a fine kind of tourism for Natchez ! The most magnificient view on the river will become a place to gamble. Hurray for the pollution ! By the way I thought that most of the people of Natchez were christians... Drinking and gambling are a part of the american christian culture ??? Who want to see a beautiful historic town, rich for its nature, becomes a gambling town ? Mississippi is always 50 years late. We're facing a huge global change of temperature (don't you see it this days???) but we're polluting some more.
Please, go and take a walk on Roth Hill. And think that everything you see will be destroyed. Great !!!!!!!
Posted on December 4 at 11:59 a.m.
I asked the teacher this morning : the children were taught that Monet was the founder of impressionism and that Seurat is the creator of pointillism. She used posters to emphasize those issues. Well, it is a little mistake in the paper. Not in the classroom.
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Posted on December 15 at 1:12 p.m.
Yes Freedom42, we could find another way to make money in our town. Look, they closed the tourist center downtown and sent people out of the historical district to find information about natchez. Th Butch Brown visions are awful, it costs us so much money ! The visitor center fits for a big city, not for our tiny town ! Placing that costly center out of downtown made the local buniesses suffer a lot. We could have TOURISM if we would hire competent people to manage it. Green turism that attract quality people from the US and Europe ! We need GOOD roads and a fine and lively downtown. But the casino will suck up all the good things in the town. I found the Cook article funny when he says that the casino communities need bigger jails ! Aren't we building a jail in Natchez??? Everything has been planed ! Look up at CCA private jails : low paid jobs, bad treatment of the inmates. Actually, in 2000 the cca prison of Jena Louisiana was declared the worst jail in the US... We're doing good in the south, indeed !
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