if cuomo does not know of the teo churches then he should be sent back to school
those that pray at nassau otb have no use for lawyers like cuomo
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Cuomo creating statewide anti-hate crime force
Governor Cuomo on Sunday announced a new statewide anti-hate crime force as the city’s top cop suggested the increase in the crimes was caused in part by the rhetoric surrounding the presidential campaign.
“New York is, and will always be, a place of acceptance, inclusion and a bastion of hope for all people,” Cuomo said in a statement.
“We will never allow fear and intolerance to tear at the fabric of who we are.”
The governor has directed New York State police to create a new Hate Crimes Unit to investigate and help local to law enforcement agencies to investigate potential hate crimes.
Cuomo said that some of the investigators have already been involved in cases of swastikas appearing in places around the state.
Meanwhile, NYPD Commissioner O’Neill called the 31.5 percent increase in hate crimes so far this year a “disturbing trend” while appearing on “The Cats Roundtable” radio show on AM 970
“The trends are a bit disturbing,” O’Neill said. “There’s been a lot of rhetoric over the last months.”
The commissioner said that the increase has been “specifically against the Muslim population” and crimes against Jewish people were up as well.
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