Wampanoag casino
Cape Cod Today: Any Wampanoag Casino should be on Cape Cod.
For the uniformed, the Wampanoag tribe in Mashpee recently received federal recognition, and they're discussing the possibility of building a casino somewhere in southeastern Mass.
There's been some talk about building it on Cape Cod, and the Wampanoag spokespeople seem anxious to assuage concerns from the local tightasses here on Cape that they're not going to do so. Personally, I think they should -- it'd be a huge shot in the arm, revenue-wise, and help redirect a lot of money that ends up going down to the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos in Connecticut.
As the editorial points out, "That spending could be done here on Cape Cod if we got off our sanctimonious 'high horse' and welcomed any Mashpee Wampanoag casino right here in their ancestral home.
"The perfect casino site is already called a 'reservation.'"
Read on for details.