July 13 2010 by Scott.

This is an awsome read from Nick at lettherebelighthouse.blogspot.com on the TOH gutting of the Lighthouse.

http://www.lettherebelighthouse.com/2010/07/kate-murray-slits-long-islands-throat.html

Newsday quoted many people who say that their project is no longer viable because of the reductions.  But the brilliant supervisor of the TOH continues to push the scale back saying it would preserve our suburban quality of life.

What I want to know is what suburban quality of life?  The sumps?  We have parks and a couple beaches!!  But what else??  Not much quality of life that would be “destroyed” by the Lighthouse now would it.  What a joke this town is!!!  Yet certain people in this town who don’t give a crap about the issues continue to vote these morons back into office.  People wonder why people are leaving at rapid paces, and why we may end up having a casino at the site instead of the Lighthouse.  Its because 98% of the government around here doesn’t do anything to make life better and all they do is raise taxes and collect pay checks.

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July 13 2010 by Scott.

Well this morning the TOH unveiled their plan for the Lighthouse and saying its underwhelming is quite an understatement.  The size of the original Lighthouse proposal was between 10 and 13.5 million square feet and the TOH reduced proposal is 5.4 million feet.  Two million of which is reserved for parking according to Chris Botta.  Here is the press release issued by Kate herself as well as councilwomen Dorthy Goosby who is responsible for the district the Lighthouse would be in. 

http://www.lettherebelighthouse.com/2010/07/kate-murrays-lighthouse-scale-down.html

Reaction to that press release deserves an entry in that of itself and I will try to get that up as soon as possible.

According to Chris Botta Wang and County Executive Ed Mangano are talking about doing a proposal with the Shinnecock nation troop in which a Mohegan Sun type Casino would be built along with a Coliseum for the islanders among other things.  Check out pointblank for more on this.

I don’t like or support the idea of putting a Casino a couple hundred feet of local Colleges.  But this is what happens when you have brainwashed people who vote for candidates based off party line and not the issues.  Hopefully we reach an amicable resolution but I am not holding my breath.

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