We're looking into it and will update as soon as we get confirmation.

See update, Perry Hall is included. I'm working on a followup now.

To serve and protect...

Gotta protect the casino's business.

Precisely. Lagging Question 7 numbers in the area?

PLEASE DAVID SHUT UP U PROBABLY WAS THE ONE COMPLAINING FOR NO REASON HIDDEN TREASURES WERENT BOTHERING NOONE NEITHER THE CUSTOMERS MAJORITY OF THEM WERE SENIOR CITIZENS AND ALL THEY WANNA DO WITH THERE TIME IS ENJOY IT WHILE THEY HERE BUTPEOPLE LIKE YOU MISERABLE.

your a asshole david

Where exactly?

You're quoted on the WBAL Radio website. Any coincidence?

What laws were broken?

I LIVE RIGHT IN THE TOWNHOMES BEHIND MARS AND THERES NO PROBLEM OVER THERE U WERENT SEEING POLICE CARS OR ROBBERY AND ETC GOING ON OVER THERE SEE THIS IS WHY PEOPLE LIKE YOU GOT THE WORLD MESSED UP MIND YOUR BUSINESS AND STAY OUT OF OTHERS THAT DOESNT CONCERN YOU HIDDEN TREASURES WERE BETTER THEN ALL OF THE REST OF THE SWEEPSTAKES THAT WERE OPEN AT THE TIME WE WERE NUMBER ONE.

LOL, yep.

but that's business though, so that's "allowed"

That was a good one! Let us not forget the other biggie, the Maryland Lottery.

And "Maryland Live"

I vote for prohibition too. Ban large sodas. Lock-up speeders. Lock-up jaywalkers.

The sky is falling.

FIFA, you left out banning trans fat! How could you? LOL They are hard at work standing in traffic on 43 pointing radar guns while a few blocks away, actual crimes are taking place. Unreal. If they reinstate prohibition, I'm digging an underground shelter for "wartime" purposes ;)

I realized I could end up typing all day.

Absolutely...and why are we still allowing large sodas?

AND WHAT ABOUT BINGO???? you get paid to play, they are in most communities, they are opened late hours with ore without security. At least at the Cafe's you meet really nice people, who are out for enjoyment, there is no alcohol served but they feed you good food on the weekends, you listen to great old school music, and it's relaxing, I guess you prefer going to the Bar getting drunk and going home and harassing and abusing their families or risk getting a D.U.I or worse kill someone. The Cafe's deserve a little more respect, those that live in glass houses should not throw stones. Those that spend their money on the lottery may have invested for years with little to show for it, (sometimes nothing) at least when you go to the cafe's you also have a chance to win prizes just like BINGO and for the same reason people play BINGO is the reason amusement is found right in their own neighborhoods where they pay their Taxes. To Baltimore County, you did your job, but the people that are most affected are our Seniors. I have not heard any reports of any killing, stabbing or robbery at any of these cafe's...so what prompt you to do this? WHAT

Silly talk, it is being enforced because the government feels it is losing revenue. Just like cigarettes, liquor, etc. If the government is losing tax revenue, they are on it.

I saw a car parked in the fire lane at the shopping center, where was the cop? Etc. etc.

Oh please, I don't want to see people speeding and getting into accidents, but really? Spending hours standing on a major highway to ticket as many people as possible? I didn't get a ticket because I don't speed and never have had a ticket, but they had like 4 cars pulled over, people slamming on their brakes, causing a hazardous situation. I made sure to flash with my lights to as many cars as possible and please don't try to tell me it's illegal to do that because it isn't. I checked years ago and nothing has changed. I will always do that every time I see radar being taken, especially at the bottom of hills if people don't brake continuously. There are a lot of crimes going on in Perry Hall, that should be a priority.

Evets, the law may have changed since then, but, some years ago, I was driving up Padonia Rd. and someone was nice enough to flash their lights warning me of an impending speed revenue trap. Soon after, I saw a trap on the other side of the road and flashed my lights to warn those drivers. When I reached the trap on my side, one of Balto. Co's. Finest pulled me over and read me the riot act, telling me that flashing my lights was illegal and that if he caught me again he would throw the book at me. I called the Cockeysville Precinct and asked if the purpose of their speed traps was to slow people down and save lives or collect a quota of tickets. Of course, they gave me the expected answer. I then called the State Police and they said the right thing, which is, they don't care if people slow down from being warned by flashing lights or by getting tickets. I called Roger Simon of the Sun and he wrote a column about it, which put me in fear of retribution by the County police for a while thereafter.

You are so right and they are much friendlier. They are in communities for a reason and plenty of people go there as their evening escape from worries and job stress. You get a chance to talk with senior citizens, win door prizes and meet pinochle card players. Personally I have met more people and laughed, celebrated birth days, listened to oldie for goodies and enjoyed myself without having to lose a mint like I would at a casino. If Maryland Live was getting the revenue they predicted and O'Mally and Rawlings were not pushing the gambling for these new casinos these little places would be left alone.

Some might say the folks in Towson qualify for that honor. The ones in the white shirts and suits.

And thats why I'm voting "No" on Question 7

You have one, its called the financial markets.

Amen. Security was there, it was providing employment, fun and entertainment. But they would much prefer to come out with another scratch-off that hardly anyone wins. Leave the spots alone in those communities that have no objection. Stop trying to controll everyone's life by dictating what type of entertainment they should be enjoying.

Let's look at where the "legal" funds from our "legal" casinos go. Some to "schools" to pay the bloated salaries of the way overblown "administration" who provide no real value to education. Some to social welfare programs for some people who have been living off the system for generations, etc.
While a certain portion of "legal" casino taxes goes to good causes, a lot goes to causes no more worthwhile than those you have listed.

Start with the politicians.

Yes, I noticed it when they first put all those god awful stickers on the front of the building and than it sat for a while. Next thing I knew it was open and packed! What type other place other than a shady place need a security guard at 4pm in the afternoon on a Tuesday? I wanted to go in an check it out but I know for a fact I would have stuck out like a sore thumb, so I just became a gawker as I drove by.

Places like this do nothing for our neighborhood but call in the dirtbags and trash that are associated with these places. I can't wait to welcome in the redevelopment of the GSA buildings into what is shaping up to be a fantastic mixed-use area. Well see though, being right on the bus line only spells trouble for most places. If it goes through you can bet your last dollar I will be selling my house within the first six months of it being open.

If the State/City/Counties can't link it to drugs, sex or alcohol they can't understand why folks want to go there and are having fun so they close them until they can figure out how to tax them to death. Watch, these places will come back on they have figured out how to make them undesirable by taxing and individuals are miserable again.

I won $7.75 in less than 15 minutes from the now-closed internet sweepstakes parlor in Arbutus: http://patch.com/A-sTxC. The county State's Attorney's office remembered that I had written about it and asked questions, and this morning they called me while the raid was in progress. I had the story hours online hours before the police department issued a release.

WHAT?

LOL

Pay close attention to the timing of events--two weeks before the election and the vote for question 7. It is almost as if they were holding these places hostage if people didn't vote for question 7. Also you have to consider that politicians are angry that people are enjoying these spots more than Maryland Live which takes and takes and keeps on taking. Also remember that these places were granted ligitimate licenses and you do have the option on doing internet searches if that is what you choose to do. As with anything until the City/State can figure out how they are going to get their cut enjoyment stops for everyone else. I say if you haven't been to one don't disrupt it for everyone else. There have probably been more people visiting the block than these little spots. During the football/baseball games it was really nice to play a game, laugh and cheer for your team, eat, listen and sing, etc. It's all gone for no reason. Everyone does not like sitting in bars!!!

And they lose a lot less money than they would in MD's ripoff, low payout "casinos".

Because there's no money in it.

SO TRUE

I AGREE ANNABEL I JUST WISH THEY WOULD HAVE LEFT THEM ALONE THE PEOPLE THERE WERE FRIENDLY I PLAYED THERE ALL THE TIME AND I FEEL AS THOUGH IF THESE PLACES WERE ILLEGAL WHY THEY WAIT TILL A YEAR TO SHUT THEM DOWN OR WHY DID THEY GIVE THEM A LICENSE TO BEGIN WITH IT JUST DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME IM CURIOUS PLAYING IN THESE PLACES WERE JUST LIKE PLAYING THE MD LOTTERY AND GOING TO OTHER CASINOS, IT ONLY TOOK 1 VOICE TO SHUT THEM DOWN ITS SAD THAT THESE STORE OWNERS HAD TO COMPLAIN. I THINK IF THEY CONTINUE TO KEEP THESE PLACES CLOSE ATLEAST HAVE HIDDEN TREASURES OPEN THEY WERE ADVERTISING IN THE PAPER ON THE RADIO AND EVERYTHING THESE PEOPLE THAT WORK HERE IS LIKE FAMILY AND FOR THEM TO SHUT THEM DOWN WITH NO NOTIFICATION WAS WRONG I THINK THEY NEED TO SHUT DOWN ALL GAMBLING THEN CAUSE EVERYBODY THAT GAMBLES EITHER WINS OR LOSE.