our leaders stop protecting the fossil fuel industry over wildlife and people alike.

Shaye Wolf is the climate science director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1989, with approximately 1.1 million members and online activists, known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism.A recent study by Time Warner Cable of the Hudson Valley, Southern Tier and the Capital Region areas on how residents felt about the potential impact of casinos in their local area showed mixed, and often confusing, results. Basically, while people believed that casino construction would bring jobs, they also believed that introducing a new casino into the area would increase crime, traffic problems, and gambling addiction.

If the negatives sound familiar, it is because it is the same old drum bear used by USA anti-casino groups to thwart casino construction in viable areas that would benefit the local population. The increased traffic argument is almost laughable since the alternative, building casinos in areas what would not attract people, just doesn’t seem like it would attract investment of any