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Unregistered
August 15th, 2003, 03:35 PM
I do agree that our politicians need a shake up. Maybe they should move away - hey where is it your are at?
The casino would be beneficial if taxes were collected, if other businesses were not allowed to open on the Seneca's site thus giving equally opportunity to all to collect on the good fortune of a casino. But this is not the case. Nor does the leader of Cheektowaga have a long term or short term plan - how do I know I sat down and asked him. He stated that he cannot see that far down the road. He is waiting for a final decision. Well in most professions we must project the possible events down the road and some may happen and some not but at least a path is somewhat defined. We don't have many here who have a defined path for the casino just a 'bring it and they will come' attitude.
Those is Cheektowaga are not taking other areas into consideration such as the school that will potentially be down the street or yes and the again this is according to our Cheektowaga supervisor ' there are no neighborhood communities in that area. Well there are.
Let's no look at the size of the next mentioned cities but what have they done - Baltimore, Cleveland, Boston, Atlanta and as far as I know there are no casinos there. What probably exists are leaders with vision and common sense and the ability to get along so that major cahnges can happen and can take hold successfully.
By the way, I am quite intelligent and far from stupid and still live in WNY that is until the casino comes and then the search for greener pastures with less tax will be calling.

WNYresident
August 15th, 2003, 04:38 PM
If you noticed the town board doens't care about the "community" of cheektowaga. They allowed un-controlled growth mostly by benderson. Ask people that live along union road what they think abotu all the car traffic that cuts down those streets. THey are not that happy.

dtwarren
August 16th, 2003, 08:49 AM
Here is a study completed in 2000. The bottom lin is that after 3-5 years a casino will cost the community $1.90 for every $1.00 of benefit it brings. The question is is did our "leaders" take this study into account or did they rely on anecdotal evidence and knee jerk reactions?

http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/papers/files/grinols-Casinos-Crime-15SEP00.pdf

dtwarren
September 5th, 2003, 07:49 PM
Professor Grinols testified before Congress this past April. The bullet points of his testimony are located at http://www.ncalg.org/Grinols-Summary-30APR0311.htm . I believe this information is a little more grounded then some of the anecdotal evidence being thrown arround.

dtwarren
September 20th, 2003, 09:22 AM
Here is another interesting document from the State Comptroller's Office http://search1.osc.state.ny.us/reports/other/2-00b.pdf