{"id":264,"date":"2022-10-08T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2022-10-08T22:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T17:30:56","slug":"and-so-went-happy-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/08\/and-so-went-happy-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"And so went Happy Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College Township&#8217;s Council just voted to fsck over Happy Valley in a permeant like way.<\/p>\n<p>Forever remember these fine fscks who brought the casinos to Happy Valley.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-265\" src=\"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/council-of-evil-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegetownship.org\/224\/Council\">Council | College Township, PA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Casino opponents urged council\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statecollege.com\/college-township-council-mulls-next-step-in-response-to-casino-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\">in September<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to send a letter to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board noting opposition in the community to the proposed casino before a public hearing is held to decide on licensing approval, which could come as early as November.<\/p><p>No council members expressed support for such a letter but asked township solicitor Louis Glantz to weigh in with an opinion on the ramifications of doing so. On Thursday night, after more than 90 minutes of discussion and public comment, council declined to send the letter or to forward correspondence received by the township since the state\u2019s public comment period for the casino license\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statecollege.com\/gaming-control-board-sets-closing-date-for-public-comment-on-proposed-nittany-mall-casino\/\" target=\"_blank\">closed in June<\/a><\/strong>, which is available in its entirety on the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collegetownship.org\/324\/Proposed-Casino-Information\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>township web site<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><p>College Township\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statecollege.com\/citing-nittany-mall-potential-college-township-wont-opt-out-of-casino-consideration\/\" target=\"_blank\">chose not to opt out<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0as a casino host site when given the opportunity to do so in late 2017 and council\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statecollege.com\/college-township-council-approves-casino-development-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">conditionally approved a land development plan<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for the casino at the former Macy\u2019s property at the mall in 2021. Neither of those decisions can now be rescinded and SC Gaming OpCo \u2014 the entity led by Ira Lubert that is developing the $123 million category 4 \u201cmini casino\u201d in\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statecollege.com\/ballys-partnering-with-ira-lubert-on-planned-mini-casino-near-the-nittany-mall\/\" target=\"_blank\">partnership with Bally\u2019s<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 has already spent about $20 million predicated on the approvals, Glantz wrote.<\/p><cite>https:\/\/www.statecollege.com\/citing-potential-for-a-costly-lawsuit-college-township-council-declines-to-interfere-with-nittany-mall-casino-licensing\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>and just to further add, FSCK the goddamn lawyers who allow statements like &#8220;spent about $20 million predicated on the approvals&#8221; to enter into the records.  How about some facts you hack?!  Another one in the pocket of BiG cASSino.  Fuck this god forsaken pit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Township&#8217;s Council just voted to fsck over Happy Valley in a permeant like way.<\/p>\n<p>Forever remember these fine fscks who brought the casinos to Happy Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Council | College Township, PA<\/p>\n<p>Casino opponents urged council in September to send a letter to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board noting opposition in the community to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mymouth","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}