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		<title>Video Discussion of Casino Issue from New Miami Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[INteresting discussion of the casino issue from Seth Gorden&#8217;s New Miami FOrum http://vimeo.com/36783962]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/02/18/video-discussion-of-casino-issue-from-new-miami-forum/</link>
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		<title>Tony Goldman- Urban Miami Doesn&#8217;t Need a Casino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CASINOS Urban Miami doesn’t need a casino BY TONY GOLDMAN TONY@GOLDMANPROPERTIES.COM Forty-three years ago, I started Goldman Properties in New York City with a mission to preserve and restore depressed architecturally historic communities. In 1985, after a big success in New York’s Soho, I instantly fell in love with South Beach, a rough and decaying, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/02/04/tony-goldman-urban-miami-doesnt-need-a-casino/</link>
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		<title>Thanks to Many People for Stopping the Destination Casino Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Norman Braman and Dan Gelber for your hard work and advocacy to do the right thing on this important casino issue. The UEL also helped lead the way. And the testimony of Grace Solares, former President of MNU, before the legislative committee yesterday was apparently also critical in the overall effort. As people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/02/04/thanks-to-many-people-for-stopping-the-destination-casino-bill/</link>
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		<title>Success for Now!  But Watch out for the Coming Casino Campaign for a Constitutional Amendment!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GAMBLING &#124; WHAT’S NEXT? Casinos in limbo, but the issue has changed landscape Even with a casino-resort bill on its deathbed in the state capital this year, the battle lines have carved a new business legacy in South Florida. Racers paddle with the Brickell skyline in the background during the Orange Bowl Paddle Championship, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/02/04/success-for-now-but-watch-out-for-the-coming-casino-campaign-for-a-constitutional-amendment/</link>
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		<title>Comparative State Tax Rates from www.eyeonmiami.blogspot.com.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gambling: The deals in each State, Florida is among the worst. By Geniusofdespair I put the States in order of when they allowed gambling from the earliest, Colorado in 1931 to the latest, Maryland in 2008. If you follow along you will see the deals for each State. You will also see that the deals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/02/01/comparative-state-tax-rates-from-www-eyeonmiami-blogspot-com/</link>
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		<title>Gingrich, Adelson and Questionable Casino Gambling Ties.  This Should Enter into the National Debate: Gambling on the American Future With Government Support for the Thinner Things in Life.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Man Behind Gingrich’s Money By MIKE McINTIRE and MICHAEL LUO Published: January 28, 2012 The trip to Jordan by a group of United States congressmen was supposed to be a chance for them to meet the newly crowned King Abdullah II. But their tour guide had a more complicated agenda. Enlarge This Image Roslan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/01/29/gingrich-adelson-and-questionable-casino-gambling-ties-this-should-enter-into-the-national-debate-gambling-on-the-american-future-with-government-support-for-the-thinner-things-in-life/</link>
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		<title>Why Isn&#8217;t Adelson&#8217;s Questionable Character &#8211; And Associations- Part of the National Debate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GAMBLING Sands CEO backs Gingrich and a Miami casino Sheldon Adelson is Newt Gingrich’s biggest political backer, and also is pushing Miami to endorse his plan for a downtown casino. He’s gotten lots of press in Florida for one of those causes. BY DOUGLAS HANKS What does Newt Gingrich have in common with a proposed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/01/28/why-isnt-adelsons-questionable-character-and-associations-part-of-the-national-debate/</link>
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		<title>Casinos Good for Business?  Will they Cannibalize Local Businesses?  Key Debate.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CASINO RESORTS Would casino mega resort hurt existing Miami restaurants and shops? Opinion is split Retailers and restaurateurs are split on the potential impact casino resorts would have on S. Florida, with some seeing them as a boon and others fearing they spell doom. BY ELAINE WALKER EWALKER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Joe’s Stone Crab owner Steve Sawitz distinctly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/01/28/casinos-good-for-business-will-they-cannibalize-local-businesses-key-debate/</link>
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		<title>Is the Herald Building Historic? A center for a better downtown development that is not a Destination Casino? Should We Consider it And Work together to design a better space?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Miami Herald building&#8217;s window grids for hurricane protection. PETER ANDREW BOSCH / MIAMI HERALD STAFF Fullsize Buy Photoprevious &#124; nextImage 1 of 15 BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO FSANTIAGO@MIAMIHERALD.COM These walls around me can talk and they have a heck of a story to tell — our history, Miami’s history. When it comes to making the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/01/28/is-the-herald-building-historic-a-center-for-a-better-downtown-development-that-is-not-a-destination-casino-should-we-consider-it-and-work-together-to-design-a-better-space/</link>
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		<title>Sun Post Interview with Bob Graham- Check Last Paragraph &#8211; Thanks Frank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Eco-Warrior January 26, 2012 &#124; SunPost Former Senator Bob Graham on the Environment, Casinos, and Military Stratergy Bob Graham Admonishes Tallahassee: No More Harm Florida’s 38th governor (1979-87) isn’t pleased with what the Legislature did during last year’s session. He’s not optimistic about this year’s. But it won’t stop him from going to bat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.commonsensemiami.com/2012/01/27/sun-post-interview-with-bob-graham-check-last-paragraph-thanks-frank/</link>
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