While the recent elections were seen as a setback for environmental advocates nationally, for the small city of Richmond in San Francisco's East Bay it marked a tidal shift in a seven-year battle to protect Point Molate, the last large undeveloped headland on the bay from a mega-casino. Here at least the election demonstrated that poor communities can assert their right to control
Published: Monday, November 15, 2010, 4:32 PM Updated: Monday, November 15, 2010, 4:41 PM
New Jersey lawmakers are considering the biggest change in how Atlantic City's 11 casinos are overseen and protected since gambling was legalized here 32 years ago.
The Legislature is responding to a call by Gov. Chris Christie to take more control over the