{"id":4592,"date":"2011-08-10T06:56:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T10:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:45:44","slug":"morning-read-more-casinos-for-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/10\/morning-read-more-casinos-for-new-york-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: More casinos for New York state?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/77512\/cuomo-on-toll-hikes-gaming-vacation-%E2%80%94-but-not-pedro\/\">Albany Times-Union is reporting<\/a> today that Governor Andrew Cuomo is considering a constitutional amendment that would open the door to non-tribal casinos in New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It\u2019s really not an issue anymore of \u2018Well, if we don\u2019t officially  sanction it as a government it\u2019s not going to happen.\u2019 It is happening,\u201d  he said. \u201cSo now you have to go to the second step: If there is going  to be gaming, how should it be done? \u2026 Is it a Constitutional amendment?  I don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s a topic we\u2019re looking at actively.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This kind of change could have huge implications for the North Country, affecting casino operations on the Akewsasne-Mohawk Reservation, and reshaping the economy of the harness and horse racing industries anchored in Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Have we already edged so far into the Lottery-Bingo-Tribal-Casino world that there&#8217;s no going back?\u00a0 What do you think of the idea of casinos in the Catskills, the Adirondacks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union is reporting today that Governor Andrew Cuomo is considering a constitutional amendment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,6504],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions\/4593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}