Before last week, I did not even know that the two Indian casinos here (Mohegansun and Foxwood) are the largest tax payers in the state. But now it seems that the state of Connecticut doesn't want any more casinos.I quite agree with them. But I was surprised (since when have the politicians started disliking incoming revenue?) until I was talking about it with a long time resident of Connecticut. She said that unlike the existent reservations, the new proposals for Indian reservations will displace a lot of people living in the land claimed by the native Indians. Votes!

We checked out Mohegunsun over the weekend. It is an impressive place by a beautiful river. It is run very well and like any Las Vegas based Casino has good restuarants, ongoing shows etc. But we make terrible gamblers! So we moved around for a while, eventually got tired of the smoke (people smoke a lot around here!) and came back before midnight. But we had to drag the turbanned one back.