All about the local impacts of the casinos. The guy who runs this website obviously hates the Pequots.

Foxwoods Casino: Gambling Facts Statistics and Social Impacts

] The House Armed Service Committee has approved a $400.5
] billion defense bill that would authorize the Navy
] secretary to sign a contract for up to seven
] Virginia-class submarines from Electric Boat over the
] next several years.

*dance*

Bill OK'd By House Panel Authorizes Navy To Buy 7 Boats From Electric Boat

] JACKSON -- More than 70 headstones were either damaged or
] destroyed inside a Russian Orthodox cemetery on Route 571
] in one of the costliest acts of vandalism in the
] township's history, authorities said yesterday.

People are just sick and unbelievbable.. WHY would people do this???!!!???

Vandals' work: 73 graves desecrated in Jackson

] New London - The White House has confirmed that
] President Bush will be the speaker at the 122nd
] commencement exercises for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
] on May 21.

Interesting.

Bush To Speak At Coast Guard Academy Commencement

] A deployment tradition is the two dozen pink flamingos
] that occasionally show up on the lawn of a USS Providence
] family. Once the family pays $3 to a local morale fund,
] the flamingos "migrate" to another lawn.

Cute :)

‘When Our Time Comes': Wives Await Providence

] Groton -- Electric Boat is ready to begin recruiting
] hundreds of its shipyard workers for some "road
] jobs" in Virginia and Washington that could last up
] to three years, and it is offering some special
] incentives for anyone willing to travel.

Well, who the hell's going to build the subs here?!

EB To Recruit For Out-of-state Jobs

] MANALAPAN -- A township man was charged with aggravated
] manslaughter yesterday, almost two weeks after he ran
] down his wife's boyfriend with a pickup truck in a
] mismatched "game of chicken," and two days after the
] boyfriend died from his injuries, authorities said.

I never would have expected trailer-park antics in Manalapan.

Charge of manslaughter filed in love-triangle case

] The Navy's current plan is to purchase one submarine per
] year through 2006, then two per year after that. EB and
] Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding each produce half of each
] submarine, and then alternate the final assembly. Some
] top defense officials, including Navy acquisition chief
] John Young, have said the Pentagon might have to look at
] restoring competition to submarine contracts, or giving
] all the submarine work to one yard, to bring down the
] cost.

That's not good. Labor is cheaper at NNS.

Navy Watches Cost Hikes In Sub Program

] LACEY -- Two civilian security guards at the Oyster Creek
] nuclear power plant have been placed on administrative
] leave after one drew his weapon on the other for "one or
] two" seconds during a "verbal joust," company officials
] said.
]
] The guard admitted to company officials that he used poor
] judgment when he removed the gun from his holster after
] joking around at 11 p.m. Tuesday, said Hugh McNally,
] manager of nuclear security for Exelon, which operates
] the plant.
]
] The incident occurred less than a week after two other
] guards at the plant were fired after falling asleep at a
] security checkpoint at its parking lot.

More reasons to move away from Oyster Creek...

] Hernandez used his victims' telephones to make costly
] calls to 900 numbers to request "services," Gasser said.
] He would not elaborate on what the type of services.

Beware of perverts who break in to use your phone.

Indictment: Burglar phone bills $4,400