The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has rejected a plan for a Wisconsin Indian tribe to build a casino in the Catskills. The project was projected to bring nearly $1 billion a year in activity to the economically depressed Catskills. Do you think the federal
government should have let this project go forward? Do you think it’s time for the state Legislature to finally give in and present a constitutional amendment to legalize casinos in New York? Or should the government continue to make it difficult to expand casino gambling in the state?
About the author: Mark Mahoney, editorial page editor at The Post-Star, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for editorial writing on issues related to open government. Also in 2009, the "Your Right to Know" blog received the prestigious First Amendment award from the Associated Press Managing Editors.
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