For future of Youngstown, bring gambling downtown

For future of Youngstown,bring gambling downtown
EDITOR:
It is time to look at the future that faces the city of Youngstown. The future is bleak. There is a lack of leadership as well as workable plans.
The convention-community center lies dormant. The possibility of losing the funding is becoming more probable.
I have noticed the advertising in The Vindicator promoting casinos at Mountaineer, Niagara, Atlantic City, Louisiana, Las Vegas and Windsor, Canada.
People will gamble, and they will go where they can gamble. Many of our citizens travel to the various casinos available to our area. Why not make it available to them here?
We have the land between Market Street Bridge and South Avenue Bridge sitting empty. This land would be available for a casino and hotel with the attendant businesses. Such an enterprise would lift the economy of this area and put the city on the map for people to come to.
The argument that gambling is immoral is not valid. This county tried prohibition, which gave us organized crime, which we still have. People will gamble, and we should recognize this and do something in a legal way to control the management of these enterprises .
The money will stay here, and the taxes that gambling raises will enable the city to properly do its duty for the betterment of the community.
SOLOMON MALKOFF
Youngstown
What has Bush wrought?EDITOR:
Please help remind me of all the good done for our country under our president.
UBringing our economy back down, unemployment back up.
USpending billions of dollars fighting an endless war, then asking for billions more of American money to rebuild a hopeless situation.
UTrying to take overtime pay away from hard-working Americans who may be trying to get a little further ahead, saving for the rising cost of college education, or simply trying to take a family vacation.
Let's try to keep in mind that a president's personal business is his personal business. The direction of this country is our business and look where it's going ... hopefully back to Texas.
VICTORIA PARDON
Girard
Just what did Clarett dothat was so terribly wrong?
EDITOR:
The suspension of Maurice Clarett for one playing year is absurd.
Ohio State makes $100 million a year on its football. The coach is paid $1 million. Television and the NCAA make millions.
I do not think of Maurice Clarett as a student; the word association here is football player.
His infractions are minor. Special consideration for oral exams? He is a football player first. Exaggerating values on a police report? Ninety percent of people making a loss claim exaggerate values. Should President Bush be suspended for one year because he exaggerated Saddam's weapons? I think three days in jail for Bush and Maurice is sufficient.
This lad is 19, thrown into the maelstrom of big money, big celebrity and big sports. He should be given a little slack, especially since others have done much worse and not paid a year of their life, restricting their God-given talent.
The other issue is we in Ohio who have always struggled for a winner (Browns, Bengals, Indians, etc.), and we finally have one and now the pious NCAA wants to curtail our chances to have a four-year run? Are they all from Michigan?
Hey, it's only a game. Lighten up on this lad and let him do what he does best -- what he was born to do -- and thrill us all with his running.
PHILIP S. ARBIE
Warren