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PAGE: Casino Planned Across State Line in New Hampshire

May 6, 2026May 6, 2026 Guy Page

A New Hampshire casino company plans to build a new casino and entertainment venue just across the Connecticut River from Vermont in Littleton, NH. Littleton is on the state line and accessible by both freeway and state highways to St. Johnsbury in about a 20-minute drive. If constructed as plan, the casino would be the closest to … Read more

Enjoy Playing Your Favorite Game at a Reliable Online Casino

July 5, 2023July 5, 2023 Guest Contributor

Online casinos have revolutionized how people enjoy gambling and playing their favorite casino games. Gone are the days when you had to travel to a physical casino to experience the thrill of blackjack, roulette, or slots.

Why Casino Guides and Reviews are Useful

January 4, 2023December 21, 2022 Op-Ed

If you’re looking for a trustworthy online casino with a great selection of games and one that also has fantastic bonuses with fair and realistic wagering requirements, then you’ve come to the right place.

How Voting Became A Fundamental Right

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 Guest Contributor

In a democracy, voting is essential to ensuring that everyone has a say in how their country is run. It is a way for people to hold their government accountable and to make their voices heard on the issues that matter to them.

What are the Benefits of Playing Crash Games?

January 8, 2025October 21, 2022 Guest Contributor

Online casinos keep growing daily, especially since the introduction of new games. Among several other innovations, crypto crash games seem to have caught the attention of betting people. It is safe to say that the rapid popularity of cryptocurrencies also contributed to the adoption of crash games.

Religious Freedom and Free Exercise

November 3, 2020

Religious freedom and free exercise of religion are prominent in the First Amendment. Coronavirus response has, among other things brought on a very intense, national debate. Yes, people are continuing to discuss the wisdom of lockdowns.

Springfield Mass. Casino Does What We Expected – Loses Jobs and Fails to Deliver

August 26, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire’s Casino advocates can’t be happy with this news. The MGM Casino in Springfield, a year after opening, has shed hundreds of jobs. And locals say, “the promised downtown revival hasn’t materialized.”

New Hampshire Casino Gambling Bill Officially Dead for This Session

May 10, 2019 Steve MacDonald

There’s no lucky 21 for State Senator Lou D’Allesandro. The 2019 version of legislation to introduce casino gambling to the Granite State took a gut punch a few weeks ago when a House committee rejected the Senate approved bill by a vote of 17-2.

NH House Committee Rejects Senate Casino Gambling Bill 17-2

May 1, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The New Hampshire House is where Democrat Lou D’Allesnadro’s Casino Bill’s often go to die. But they don’t always die in committee. And not like this.

It’s Probably Not A Scheme To Pass An Income Tax

September 26, 2018May 29, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Starting with the downfall of the Casino bill in the New Hampshire House, voices started peeping about how this was really some progressive plot to pass an income tax. I guess the two were being connected somehow? The Democrats voted the Casino bill down so they could use its death as an excuse to summon up a new broad based tax.

Fortunately for us the same House that voted down the casino bill never included the assumed Casino revenue in their budget. The State senate never included any casino money in their budget either. No one except the governor did and her budget has now been through the House and the Senate sans Casino revenue of any kind.

So relax.

Casino Bill was Defeated by Large Margin, 199-164 [Updated and Bumped]

September 26, 2018May 23, 2013 Steve MacDonald

From Spec Bowers…

Casino bill was defeated by large margin, 199-164. I thought it would be close.

I thought it would be closer as well but gambling is one of those issues that has broad bi-partisan opposition. There are factions on the left that are hard core progressive wellsprings that oppose gambling as if they actually had morals or something. And I think Hassan over-reached when she presented a budget as if the gambling money was a given.

Bad idea. I think that turned the Democrats who might have considered easing into it on the other side of a fence they were too pissed off to cross.

And let us face facts. Gambling is just not a good fit for the Granite state given the dynamics of the region, it has not delivered on its promises in the Northeast, and in the end it is a crutch for growing government on more false promises.

Update: According to Jim Rubens from the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling, after the Casino vote there was a motion to reconsider. That motion failed 212-155.

Jim’s email on the jump

Majority Report on SB152 The Casino Gambling Bill

September 26, 2018May 20, 2013 Steve MacDonald

I don’t typically post reports from the House Journal because I am not flush with the time necessary to read them on any sort of regular basis. But the committee vote on SB152, the most recent effort to plop a Casino somewhere on the New Hampshire landscape, was close–and just happened to go my way. What better incentive than that to report the results of that report…?

…to see what the bipartisan committee saw that inspired them to suggest, not so much that any Casino would be bad for New Hampshire–which is my position–but that SB152 was just a lousy effort at getting one even if you were in favor of it.

So here is the where and why of how the bill fails and should, by Rep Mary Jane Wallner.

Maybe Maggie “Squats With Lobbyists” Hassan Just Wants A Casino Bailout?

September 26, 2018March 25, 2013 Steve MacDonald

As our Democrat Governor tries to improve her odds at winning a bet on a state gambling monopoly in northern New England, AP is reporting hard times for the Indian Casino monopoly in the southern part of New England. The Indian tribes, who got the law changed to allow them to put up casinos as a way to pay for their needs way back when, got so busy relying on other peoples gambling money for their free ride that when that money dried up, (down economy, waste, bad spending decisisons, abuse, because they are entitield) they figured they’d go running back to Uncle Sam for a bailout.

It’s millions of dollars, just sitting there, to which the ‘law’ entitles them, and as the song goes, they aint too proud to beg.