Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Simple answers to being broke...

By Dave Anderson


Will the Casino save Pittsburgh?


The early answer says NO.


The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that opening week revenue has not been too impressive:



Meanwhile, the casino's first eight days of operations produced one big haul, generating $6.5 million in gross terminal revenue on $73.7 million in wagering....


That would put the North Shore venue behind The Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Washington County, Sands Bethlehem, and Harrah's Chester Downs for first-week revenues.


Recent projections have the casino taking in a net of $360 to $400 million. Right now the casino is taking in revenue at a rate of a tad less than $300 million dollars per year. Yes, this is the first week of operation, and it is August where the summer crowds are not hanging out in Pittsburgh, but this is an early warning flare for anyone counting on the casino to generate sufficient excess tax/cash flow to bail out the numerous local institutions that are in a vise for the next two fiscal years.



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