{"id":19406,"date":"2017-04-12T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19406"},"modified":"2017-04-12T07:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T11:24:03","slug":"looming-casino-revenue-loss-could-hit-niagara-falls-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/12\/looming-casino-revenue-loss-could-hit-niagara-falls-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Looming casino revenue loss could hit Niagara Falls hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/wivb.com\/2017\/04\/07\/looming-casino-revenue-loss-could-hit-niagara-falls-hard\/\">WIVB Channel 4<\/a> in Buffalo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf we spend it now and it\u2019s not there and this thing lasts for quite some time it can cause a lot of problems,\u201d said Andrew Touma, Niagara Falls City Councilman.<\/p>\n<p>Touma is calling for a 90-day moratorium on casino revenue spending following the Seneca Nation\u2019s announcement to discontinue payments to the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe collect about $16 million a year and of that money around $11 or $12 million per year is used in the general budget. Just to cover expenses in the general budget and then we use other monies for capital projects,\u201d said Touma.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: \u201cIf we spend it now and it\u2019s not there and this thing lasts for quite some time it can cause a lot of problems,\u201d said Andrew Touma, Niagara Falls City Councilman. Touma is calling for a 90-day moratorium on casino revenue spending following the Seneca Nation\u2019s announcement to discontinue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,54,2],"tags":[12189,547,450,354,2713,12190,653,41,11045,12188,7681,5789,418,1514],"class_list":["post-19406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-casinos-and-gaming","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-andrew-touma","tag-budget","tag-buffalo","tag-casino","tag-channel-4","tag-city-councilman","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-payment","tag-revenu","tag-seneca-nation","tag-state","tag-tourism","tag-wivb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19407,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19406\/revisions\/19407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}