Opinion: Legalized online gaming would be good for California
By Richard Bronson
I love to look into the past to find clues to the present and the future. It is amazing how you can connect the dots of history and visualize the road ahead. You can see clues in the rearview mirror that are shaping the world of the Internet and online gaming, the most exciting new technology industry in the world today.
Interestingly, I am seeing more of these bread crumbs dusted along the highways and byways of California, where the prospective gold rush of this new industry is a sleeping giant, ready for its awakening moment of impact.
It was in San Francisco in the 1840s and 1850s that California’s gaming legacy was born – during the boomtown days of the mad dash for rare nuggets in the Sierra Nevada. Card rooms and poker parlors dotted the avenues and you could wager on everything from jumping frogs to arm-wrassling on any corner. Now, more than 150 years later, there are as many types of legalized and regulated gambling in California as in any place in America or the world.
Richard “Skip” Bronson is chairman of U.S. Digital Gaming.
Yah,
Gaming would be a great benefit to California. It has a long history of fostering productive successful societies. Very good for families too. Brings out the best in people also. NOT
I am wondering, does anyone out there know history or are you all content on repeating it?
In so many ways California and many of the people in it have become the poster child for all that is wrong with America.
Can’t complain the tribe I’m from, building another 255 room add on 3RD-Tower ,2000sf. FOOT SUITES,5 more high classed gourmet restaurants,a bigger shopping center, and a 6000 seat theater for Hank Williams,Boston,some the other biggies in the music world,plus top rated medical health care, send the warriors to best universities IN THE STOLEN HOME LAND.
Who ever said what goes around doesn’t comes around must been drinking moon shine.Wall street seen them being such good tenants with vision they offered them 495 millions at 4.1 % to keep it growing bigger,can’t understand why this town so deep in it’s HOLE?
The next Big Giant step is a sporting gambling owned my Red Bloods not Europeans investors.THE PLACE FEEDS THE ENTIRE SENIOR COMMUNITY AT NO CHARGE AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE NATIVE AMERICAN TO SHARE THE SUCESS.
Cheers, this The 12 and a Half Minute Martini FOR GOOD KARMA.
Hang Ups From Way Back, here you go again. If you are of Native American Blood, what Tribe, what percentage?
And why are you afraid of usuing your real name here. Its a shame Kae doesnt call out all you hiding bloggers. Just my opinion.
What ever you say Mike.
lol
snee’-wah-teh Shi’-gah!
That’s you Mike.
Now must be on my way.
Your whys are the bloggers anti virus to facebook,bet you probaly got one those crony accounts too!
Anyone with real sense doesn’t touch that leaking privacy CRAP.
“Anyone with real sense doesn’t touch that leaking privacy CRAP”
Internet privacy is an oxymoron! Whether it be FB, LTN.Net, etc, etc, etc.
And I would assume ESPECIALLY online gaming!
HUFWB you continue to show your stupidity on this site, your just another local wannabe who has NO life except making dumb comments here on LTN.
lmfao at xclub cracker.
Need a tip $
Better get out here on the water soon as the wind suppose to come up,but it nice right now,people are showing up at the empty beaches BOX MAN!Same dice please!
If any one knows the down side of gaming it should be the people who live at the lake.