{"id":7752,"date":"2013-04-25T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2013-04-25T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T15:30:54","slug":"will-casinos-boost-the-adirondack-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/04\/25\/will-casinos-boost-the-adirondack-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Will casinos boost the Adirondack economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7755\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/04\/Las_Vegas_Strip2.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7755\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7755\" title=\"Las_Vegas_Strip2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/04\/Las_Vegas_Strip2-300x213.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/04\/Las_Vegas_Strip2-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/04\/Las_Vegas_Strip2-150x106.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/04\/Las_Vegas_Strip2-450x319.png 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/04\/Las_Vegas_Strip2.png 1744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Las Vegas strip. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Las_Vegas_Strip.png\">BrendelSignature<\/a>, Creative Commons, some rights reserved<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denpubs.com\/news\/2013\/apr\/24\/need-gaming-adirondacks-large\/?page=1&amp;\">The editorial board of Denton Publications &#8212; the newspaper chain based in Elizabethtown that covers much of the Adirondacks &#8212; has come out with a full-throated endorsement<\/a> of casino gambling in the Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Towns like Newcomb, Port Henry and Tupper Lake that once thrived from logging and mining now seem to be headed the way of Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek,&#8221; DenPubs argued, comparing rural towns here to post-gold rush communities in Colorado.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Certainly the argument can be made that casinos would forever alter the quality of life that makes the Adirondacks the special place it is.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h152703-p4\">But through progressive planning \u2014 like forcing casinos into commercial districts, limiting stakes and establishing set closing times \u2014 casino gambling could be as good a fit here as it proved to be in Black Hawk, Central City and Cripple Creek.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Casinos are already a hot topic for debate in the Catskills.\u00a0 And the casino on the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation in northern Franklin County has been a huge boost for the community there.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to see slots and blackjack at the old Frontier Town location, or perhaps at the old Lowe&#8217;s location near Fort Ticonderoga, as Denpubs suggests?\u00a0 Comments welcome, as always.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editorial board of Denton Publications &#8212; the newspaper chain based in Elizabethtown that covers [&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":[22,10,6692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752"}],"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=7752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}