[old timer]

all of the original concepts of Why Not Dodge, knowing that building the Events Center near the downtown core would be helpful to all concerned.

My reaction to the casino applicants grabbing our sales tax money for their own gain, and to save millions of dollars for themselves isn't anti-optimistic -- it is just being realistic about facts.

Blind optimism, based on false facts, would be stupid. I don't normally like being stupid. The greed and personal gain being pushed by a small number of locals using false facts -- as in what a great financial help the casino will be to Dodge -- isn't being negative. It is reading the research.

Time will tell, as they say. Perhaps we'll all still be around in five years after the dust blows away and the casino/events center is standing in a pasture. We'll see what the actual cost to the city has been. And what gain. I hope to be wrong, by the way. If I'm correct, the cost will be massive, the gain negative and the problems increased greatly for the town -- except for the gain that a few make and take with them on their way to Arizona or Wisconsin or Florida........... you dear citizens will be holding the bill for a long time. And for what ? Gambling. Oh boy, how glamorous and modern is that.........