The web site South Coast Today published something this morning that I found a bit insulting. Don't put a casino in Middleborough, was the gist of a letter from a gentleman named Lew Dabney. Rather than "pollute the outlying countryside," we should stick the casino at Suffolk Downs because in East Boston "law enforcement already deals with the problems" such as "traffic, crime, prostitution and pollution."
I responded with my own letter to the editor:
"I was insulted by Lew Dabney’s letter of July 30th in which the author doesn’t want to “pollute the outlying countryside” of the state with a casino, but feels it’d be perfectly fine to set such a place — and the “traffic, crime, prostitution and pollution” that go with it — at Suffolk Downs in East Boston. I’m a lifelong resident of that neighborhood, and we certainly have our share of urban issues (traffic, pollution), but we have relatively little of others (crime, prostitution). However, the idea that the state should dump more of those problems in our laps while the entire Commonwealth benefits from the cash return is outrageous. Suffolk Downs does very little business right now, while locating a casino here would mean even more “traffic and other ancillary results” in my community 24 hours a day. Despite Mayor Menino’s proclamation, quite a few residents of East Boston are against the idea. We already have our quality of life impacted daily because we live with the leviathan that is Logan Airport. We don’t need another unwieldy monster next door."
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