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On Casinos in Cleveland Jeff Biasella's column here I've always thought it more fitting to have a casino near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame than another museum. My reasoning being [is] that Rock and Roll has (or used to have) a feeling of sin or naughtiness about it, and, obviously, so do casinos.
From Cool Cleveland reader Kirk Jusko patronATcuyahoga.lib.oh.us

No Dice: A vote Against on Casinos... I read your article on Casinos in Cleveland. My vote would be no. For four different reasons: 1. I look around the City and don't see how casinos could benefit the City. Cleveland already has enough issues to deal with (corruptions, shootings, questions of downtown safety, questionable police chiefs, etc) and they don't need to add gambling issues on top of it. The city needs to figure out how to take care of itself first. 2. The "owners" of potential casinos have already been choicen (sic). There are plenty of wealthy people in the city that would be able to buy a casino or become a large owner and they are blocked out in all of the recent proposals. If they are going to bring casinos in, why not open it up to the wealthy of the city... at least we know that they are Clevelanders. If the house always wins, wouldn't it be better to have owners with local roots? 3. I lived and worked in New Orleans near Harrah's. It was a daily event of seeing the homeless and criminals walking around the casino. You never know what was going to happen or if your car was safe to park. Another thing I saw was my co-workers on min. wage spending their whole paycheck at a casino in order to strike it rich. 4. (Finally) Hasn't the city said "NO" loud enough. Every time a casino issue is on the ballot the people have voted against it by a large margin.
From Cool Cleveland reader Devon Chokel dchokelAThotmail.com

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