What does Connecticut know about casinos?

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What does Connecticut know about casinos?


Quite a few things, as it happens. After all, Connecticut plays host to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, the biggest, baddest gaming meccas this side of the Mississippi. And yes, I'm counting Atlantic City - and anyone who has been both to AC and to Connecticut's two tribal mega-casinos knows why. If there is a "right" way to do a mega-casino, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun come a lot closer to it than does Atlantic City, which somehow manages to accentuate all of the negative aspects of legalized gaming - the blight, the crime, the late-night seedy desperation (see these stats) - while achieving at best a tiny fraction of the flash and glamor of Vegas. Atlantic City is truly a sad, ugly place; a bit of beautiful beachfront property brought low.