Day: February 12, 2007

For long enough we’ve been told the casinos are coming.  We have heard this long enough that it should have taken hold.  It hasn’t, despite the politics of fear in our city that encourage us to acquiesce to our continually the broken politics. Now, however, anti-casino advocates have picked up an idea I suggested a few weeks ago, to put a legally-binding question on the ballot: do you believe slots casinos should be in Philly’s neighborhoods? Getting the 20,000 valid signatures we need to get this proposition on the May ballot can block the casinos and help us keep building a politics of hope. So what’s the deal? Continue reading