AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine officials are poised to issue the state’s first casino license.
The Gambling Control Board is slated to issue the license to Hollywood Slots in Bangor when it meets Tuesday in Augusta. Hollywood Slots is now licensed as a slots operator, but it requires a casino license now that it plans to add poker, blackjack and other table games in mid-March.
After the license is approved, Hollywood Slots will change its name to Hollywood Casino Bangor.
The Oxford Casino, which is under construction in Oxford, is in the application process for a casino license. It too will have slot machines and table games when it opens in early summer.
The City and Hollywood crew is crossing their fingers this will pull them out of the financial ditch. 2011 revenues were down from 2010 and this January was the pits. The Arena funding gamble is rolling with the dice…….
We gave them 3 ft of rope and i think we knew they would end up with 6 ft in the end ! However hope they dont think table games is going to be the answer to their prayer, people have to have jobs to make money to throw it away !
It’s all FREE
Just slide your EBT
Gosh you can be a bore. Tell you what noparkforme, here is your homework. Do a study that compares the cost to society for those in need of social services. Add up the cost to Maine for providing food, shelter, education, healthcare and anything else you can think of. Then add up the cost to Maine for not providing these things. Include emergency room visits, theft of essentials for survival, extra police and court workers, the cost to victims of increased crime, the cost of burying the indigent that die, the cost of drug use by those who have lost hope, and though this will be hard to quantify add in the cost to future generations because the children of these unfortunates didn’t benefit from all that society has to offer. Oh, add in the cost of the negative image Maine projects to business and tourism. Did I leave anything out? Yes, add in lost productivity from those who aspire to do better and the cost of ignorance. Lets compare those things and see which cost’s Maine more, to help those in need, or ignore those in need.
Your cost projections don’t mean spit to the welfare rats that are scamming the system.
Take away your welfare programs, and the problems associated with these entitlements will disappear.
The people that really need these programs are on the verge of not being able to access them because the system has been overloaded by freeloaders.
As long as people like you and Bangorian keep defending the system, it will not change until the bottom drops out of the economy.
That event is nearly upon us.
There’s a certain irony in your bashing welfare recipients, since the Katahdin region is extraordinarily dependent on State money – in the form of corporate welfare, tax incentives and waivers for the charcoal factory, unemployment payments to factory workers holding out for a return of the glory days, fuel assistance, subsidized schools, etc. I’m not sure that sliding an EBT card to place a casino bet is any different than cashing an unemployment check to make a snowmobile payment.
The best thing that could EVER happen is if the welfare programs were discontinued in this state.
Then the rats would abandon the ship, leaving behind the hard working individualism and independence that this state was so famous for before elitists like you decided that it would make you feel better about yourself if you took some of OUR money and spent it on those “poor people”.
Get back to me after the crash.
I have to disagree with you once again noparkforme. The best thing for Maine, for our country, is to realize that we are all in this together. That together we sink or swim. We must acknowledge that the spirit of the individual is to respected and emulated. But to also realize that crap happens and that our culture, our national identity, our spirit as a people and a nation is to show compassion and realize that there for the grace of God go I. That is the American way. To hold out a hand to those less fortunate and help pull them from the depths of despair and fear, and to give them hope. To me, that is what it means to be an American.
Way to go watchdog!
Hey, as long as the EBT card works for lottery tickets etc., then the state has a chance to get it’s money back.
If they didn’t add a few table games, the Oxford Wilderness Casino would have had a monopoly, and dragged away some of the people who do have jobs. This at least keeps the playing field a bit more equal.
Equal! There is no equality! If there was then the Native Americans would have one to start with.
The only way to eliminate the monopolies Bangor and Oxford has is allowing more Casinos in Maine and legalizing all forms of Gambling in Maine.
Well, I guess we’ve come full circle from when the tribe’s first attempted to have a resort casino approved. The State of Maine said gambling was very bad and not a good economic investment. Heaven forbid that the tribes would have something with which to sustain themselves. So, here we are with a full-blown Casino in Bangor and one going up in Southern Maine. If this doesn’t smack of hypocracy with a touch of bigotry and lack of fairness, I don’t know what does.
I must agree.
I am not against opening gambling establishments but I have always voted against non native casino’s in Maine for this very reason. The granting of licensing (or whatever it is called) is hypocritical in the extreme! The state has been gambling for years but for some reason that is OK. Then they grant permission for slot, then a full blown casino, then another in southern Maine. All OK. But if native Americans ask to open a gambling venue it is no no no. I do not know if it is actual bigotry or if it is just politics. Certainly it is not fair and, as you said, it is hypocritical. I do not know how the state can justify these decisions which favor some and not others.
So does this mean we live in a predominantly racist state?
Refresh my memory – Wasn’t Baldacci vehemently against an Indian casino in Wash Co? How did he allow one in Oxford? Or Bangor?
The voters voted in Bangor and Oxford in referendums. The Maine voters voted in the Penn National Bangor Racino in 2003, then it expanded with Table games due to a county vote thanks to the Legislature and Gov. LePage in 2011. Oxford was voted in by the Maine people in 2010. It was the voters not Baldacci who voted Casinos in. Baldacci is a hypocrite he was for Casinos before he ran for Governor but he met with Dennis Bailey and Angus King and that is how he changed his stance. He , Bailey and King all have been and still to this day take money from Casino firms out of state while campaigning against Maine having Casinos. Though King and Baldacci were for massive lottery expansion that is why we have the National Lottery games Powerball, Mega Millions and Hot Lotto.
No, just predominantly hypocrite.
Well said!
It is a shame that casinos have come to Maine at all, especially to our area. Those who do not have are basically the ones who keep thinking, “I can win this one,” but that becomes an addictive mantra.
That the city and Hollywood Slots/Casino stand to gain from the losses of others is not a good thing.
Crime has increased in the Bangor area, but that does not seem to bother those who would profit.
Check the police beat and headlines since HS/C entered the picture at the former Miller’s Restaurant.
Can you prove it was cause by the slots that crime has increased ?
I thought it was bath salts. That’s what Bangor PD says.
What about all the people that buy toys than turn around an sell them because they can’t aford them ? People that buy campers use them say 3 times a year an park them till next year . Ive seen campers parked for 3 years in the same place an the same with motor homes. than you half to buy a big truck to hall the campers with that’s a big waste of money
Bangor crime probably doesn’t have anything to do with those 2200 plus “tourists ” that arrive EVERY day for their methadone treatment………….. or does it?
I hate Hollywood Slots. I can walk by every machine in the place but have never made it past the buffet!
The buffet table is the only one me and Jethro can beat em at.
Hollywood Slots is pitiful compared to Casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. I have not been to Mohegan Sun and the other one in Connecticut, but from people that have been there, they are great also. I’m hoping that the Oxford Casino will be more in keeping with the others mentioned above. I spend only what I can afford, not a penny more. The sad thing is many people who lose, keep playing to win it back and lose their shirt. It can be a vicious thing for people that get addicted.
Listen very closing. Hear that swooshing sound? That is all the money spent at HS streaming down the interstate to the coffers’ of gaming interests in Pennsylvania. No economic multiplier affect here. Once the building was completed and the gambling started, 90 cents of every dollar after taxes has been loaded onto an armored truck and sent south. Bangor’s idea of economic development LOL!
The same can be said for most companies in Maine it goes out of state an to other counties
All you people do is argue…If you want to change things, run for a Political office. Judging by some of you though, you’re just as bad as some of the politicians in office now.
More Welfare, EBT and Social Security money heading out of state!
It all ready ( money ) head state even with out the casinos
well bangor is already a mess this will just make more trouble.. i know for fact i grew up near mohegan sun and foxwoods in ct. montville was a quite town just five police then now more than one hundred police are employed. prostitution, drugs,theft,murder,strong arm robberys,lives ruined from loss of savings,its coming fast and will get worse and worse fast but the casino will profit from the welfare checks on the first of the month and ssi, ssd,and taxpayers will foot the bill great plan bangor