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Opinion
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12/03/09
For purposes of this piece, let's set aside for the moment that the Cordish Co.'s proposal to build a gaming facility at Arundel Mills is the only proposal before the county and state and simply focus on whether this proposal is good for the citizens of Anne Arundel County and Maryland. Find Us On Facebook
I strongly believe the answer is yes for the following reasons: 1. Anne Arundel County needs jobs and the casino will provide them. The infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars into this facility will create thousands of jobs. At the recent jobs expo held at Arundel Mills for the casino project, thousands of people showed up to...
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Arundel Mills - 2009-12-08 19:49:31
I used to shop at Arundel Mills. A few years ago I was escorted out of the mall for the way I was dressed. I was wearing blue overalls, a orange and yelloe tie dyed t-shirt and an American Flag dew rag on my head, I was approached by Mall Security and told that I had remove my dew rag from my head because it might be gang colors. My daughter was 12 or so them. She found this unbelieve. I would not remove it and they excorted us to the door.
The Officer in charge apologized on the telephone. I am a Army Veteran and A Retired Correctional Officer Lt. I new a great deal about gang signs and colors. To remove all the perceived gang signs used today customers would have to go to the mall naked.
The security at Arundel Mills appear to be poorly trained, thus you have all the robberies and assaults there. Add drunks coming over from the casino, crime will only rise. The money from the casino may appear to help the economy in the short term like the lotteries, but in the long run it will become a cancerous tumor for that area.
If the politicians would stop spending the states money on foolish things they would have money. Where does all the Lottery money go anyway. I just don't understand. Greed and foolish spending is destroying this state. What do Marylander get from the Lottery and the Casinos. More jobs, I doubt it. Better roads? My street has so many patches on it. More Correctional Officers to make the Correctional Facilities safe and properly staffed? More Police Officers so the crime rate will go down?
Maryland taxed to death.
LesBHonest
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