Outside of Nevada and Atlantic City, gambling is usually a point destanation. When you put in Foxwoods/Moheagan Sun type gambling, everything else is second fiddle. Look at those casinos, there are very few other attractions anywhere near them. Not even very many hotels outside the attached one.
If you put one at the dog track, the dog track would quickly find that making money with slot machines is easier than dogs. Same thing with the Weirs. This might be an improvement, but it will destroy what's there.
Personally I think well regulated gambling should be legal throughout the the state. But setting up special gambling locations is a bad idea.
The sillyness of the current gambling laws strikes me every time I go in the arcades on Weirs beach. They have slot machines, but since gambling is illegal, you must lose every time you play. At least with real slot machines, once in a while you win.
The state will let you put $100 in a slot machine to win a $5 stuffed animal, but if you have a chance to win the $100 back that's illegal?
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