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Edi­to­r­ial: Ren­dell should push casi­nos to give up their water­front sites. With a few well-chosen words — “the two pro­posed sites are no longer viable” — two vet­eran state law­mak­ers, Rep. Dwight Evans and Sen. Vin­cent J. Fumo, have prompted Gov. Ren­dell to con­cede the obvi­ous: The Delaware River water­front casino loca­tions are high and dry.Any pub­lic sup­port that still exists for the Fox­woods and Sug­ar­House casi­nos at their pro­posed loca­tions in South Philadel­phia and Fish­town, respec­tively, is run­ning out faster than a slots player goes through a fist­ful of quarters.

Edi­to­r­ial: Ren­dell should push casi­nos to give up their water­front sites | Philadel­phia Inquirer | 07/08/2008

This is an old edi­to­r­ial but I just had to post this. These freak­ing politi­cians, espe­cially Ren­dell think that a deci­sion is for­ever. They make a bad deci­sion and push it through when the city is vul­ner­a­ble. This was oppor­tunism at it’s height. The Casino’s and the expan­sion of the con­ven­tion cen­ter are crazy. The costs are soar­ing and the city needs hous­ing, new small busi­nesses, and com­mu­nity space.

Naomi Klein has a book about this : The Shock Doc­trine — Dis­as­ter capitalism

We are no longer the wimpy city that let Ren­dell get away with this. Not anymore.

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