THE GAMBLING NOTEPAD

Information is readily available concerning the revenues and jobs provided by the coming of casinos to a state.  This information is provided by the casino promoters.  The benefits are fully covered.  What is not so readily available is information about the problems caused by casinos and other gambling venues such as slot machines at racetracks, lotteries and charitable gambling venues.  This website is intended to provide a ready source of information about all aspects of casinos, but especially the issues of addiction, bankruptcy and foreclosure, crime connected with casinos, corruption of the political process, negative impacts on local communities, and additional social problems.  In other words the intention is to provide the other half of the gambling story that the promoters do not tell.  The site will be as thorough and scholarly as is possible, yet seek to clearly expose the devastation that gambling causes to individuals, families, communities and the nation.

Ivan Zabilka is a retired educator and historian.  He was a teacher and administrator at both the secondary and collegiate levels for forty-four years.  He has two theological degrees (M.Div. and Th.M.) from Asbury Theological Seminary and two degrees in U. S. History (M.A. and Ph.D.) from the University of Kentucky, with a specialty in the history of science.  He has been an active opponent of gambling expansion since 1992 when he personally saw in his classroom the damage caused by gambling.  He has three published books and numerous published articles in both history and about gambling.  He is currently president of Citizens Against Gambling Expansion (KY), a board member of The Kentucky League on Alcohol and Gambling Problems, a founding member of Citizens Against Gambling Expansion (CAGE), and a research consultant with The Family Foundation of Kentucky.  He is listed in Who's Who in American Education and in Who's Who in America.

Documents on this website have been written by Ivan Zabilka.  They are copyrighted, but may be copied and distributed as long as the author is credited.

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