anrew cuomo closes the curch if nassau otb on the bishop's holy day and not.....
infidels others and muslims can go to hell but not to nassau itb
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.
Long Island Bishop John Barres seeks answers to alleged abuse cover-up by pope
Leader of the nation's 8th largest diocese says Catholic church must investigate whether Pope Francis held back knowledge of sex abuse accusations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Bishop John Barres at the Diocese of Rockville Centre headquarters on Jan. 31. Photo Credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas
The leader of Long Island's 1.5 million Catholics said Tuesday he wants the Vatican to provide “decisive answers” to allegations that Pope Francis knew about accusations of sexual abuse by a former American cardinal but failed to act.
Bishop John Barres of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, the nation’s eighth-largest, also called for an overhaul of the American Catholic church’s system of reporting abuse and misconduct by bishops.
Barres’ push for change falls in line with a plan detailed by Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. On Monday, DiNardo requested an investigation into accusations that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick for years sexually abused boys and had sexual misconduct with adult seminarians.
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