  People are wising up on local gambling  March 9, 2013 The
Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register  Eight years ago, I wrote
to the paper saying don't vote for table games because once
Pennsylvania and Ohio get theirs, Wheeling would be back to
square one.  I don't want to hear that they're losing money -
that's the business that they chose: you win or lose.  Wheeling
Island "Delaware North Corporation" took millions and millions
of dollars from the Tri-State Area in eight years of table games
and poker machines.  Now that they lost money for the first
time, are we supposed to get desperate and cut back, and help
those money grabbers?  They ruined their own business. They gave
customers free play, free buffets, pizza parties, birthday
parties, etc. - now they don't. People go where the free stuff
is; that's what keeps them coming back.  Is Mr. Jim Simms
leaving Wheeling for a better Ohio casino job? Or deserting a
sinking ship like a rat?  Wheeling Island casino is doomed - 500
jobs down to 107 in gaming is a