The Mayor is 100 percent right on this. If we are going to have a casino in Boston, it should be a destination resort that will attract visitors and serve locals, not a gambling parlor with a promise of something more in the future. This should be a deal-breaker requirement.

According to the Casino plan the casino with 4500 slot machines and only 300 rooms it seems that this will be a slot parlor anyway you put it. It is clear from this design that the Casino is designed to plunder the pockets of locals for their profits rather than out of state visitors. The Mayor, and the rest of the Casino's PR machine is trying to sell this as a "Resort Destination" but it is clearly "Convenience Casino" designed to prey on Greater Bostons residents. It is a shame that our elected officials are supporting this.

We enjoy occasionally going to the casinos to, of course, gamble. Twin Rivers which is mainly a giant slot parlor is in very poor condition by my observations. It has gone downhill considerably since it opened. We would rather go to Foxwoods or Moheghan Sun. Those two places are kept up even in this economic downturn. We go two to three times per year taking in a show at the two casinos in Connecticut and gambling while there. We won't go to just a "slot parlor."

Why is Mumbles playing the role of chief "maybe or maybe not rooter" for this Suffolk Downs/DeLeo gambling palace project? Isn't the city of Revere part of the Suffolk Downs property locale? What does Mumbles think of retention of the hossie track and barns as seems to be included in the Caesars proposal? Oh yeah don't forget the flyway... what some municipal officials in communities around Suffolk Downs are trying to pass off as THE solutoin to much feared casino-inspired traffic jams. We won't worry about details yet... not until the neighboring communities count all the mitigtion cash they expect the Suffolk/Caesars' group to cover them with.

somebody should tell this blithering nitwit bagman mayor that any money coming in from the supposed windfall for this debacle will be dwarfed by the outgoing costs of almost 2 decades worth of this gasbags playing politics and meddling with the boston public school system helped along by a do nothing say even less boston city council and so called leaders from within the cities neighborhoods who have sold out the cities young people while they tried to curry favor and toady to this numbskull mayor. the negative costs of this buffoons so called leadership are incalculable. ma

Is there any Globie that thinks Mumbles might object to a federal EPA suit alleging that Suffolk Downs horse barns folks allowed hoss manure to leak into a Revere creek ? It is called Sales Creek, according to the always suspect Boston Herald reporting. Of course the Glob has its ace summer intern teams probing court records and telephoning the EPA to discover what might that hoss stuff be all about. We can probably be assured that Lizzy the Harvard Bankruptcy prof won't have a comment on such non-bovine materiels.

Is it so much the timeline order of facilities being built that Menino objects to? Or is it a sage and learned distrust of completion of such promises? Just saying.