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Thank you Norman Braman, Katy Sorenson, Dan Gelber and others for your hard work and advocacy to do the right thing on this important casino issue.

As people came to more fully understand the issue, they became more skeptical about the dubious economic benefits of casinos in the face of the horrendous social costs and the huge and inappropriate scale of the Genting project.

In my view, the community now needs to shift the public effort and find ways to address the larger issues of jobs in the Miami area in a concerted public-private effort. We should consider and plan alternative visions to rebuild the downtown area as a city center everyone can point to with great pride.

It’s not impossible.

Gregory W. Bush, Miami

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