Quote of the Day

“It amazes me that they keep pushing, but you’re always going to have investors that want more casinos and the government people will say hurray, hurray more tax money. They’re going to drain the local economy.” — UNLV professor of public policy William Thompson, on the Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission‘s approval of Wild Rose Jefferson casino. Confronted with evidence of 7% cannibalization of Prairie Meadows Racetrack, IRGC Chairman Jeff Lamberti airily proclaimed the racino “will be just fine.”