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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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Casino Cashflow Crap-out

By Dave Anderson:


The Pittsburgh slots casino is significantly underpeforming.  I think a good deal of the underperformance is the general state of the economy as people are out of work, afraid of being out of work, or have not seen a raise in a while.  Throw in the fact that I think the Pennsylvania casino market is approaching saturation with only half of the legally allowed machines already installed, and the Pittsburgh casino is an undifferentiated product, this all adds up to trouble. I just want to look at the size of the gap on the take per machine basis in the first month of operation.


Casino Revenue 9 11 09 Current data is at the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Revenue site, projections for both the state and the private owners have been reported in the Post-Gazette.   Right now there is a massive gap between what is actually happening and what the state expected to happen.  There is an even larger gap between reality and the casino owner's revenue projections.  This is a local political problem because the casino revenue has been promised to several major projects, most notably the Penguins arena, and I think there is a chance that more revenue has been committed than that which will be achieved. 


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