It's the season when people are outside the post office or the grocery store with their petitions and promises. There are two proposals in particular you need to know about.

Both promise to deliver more state funding for things we care about. But the petition circulators don't tell you the whole story:

• Together these two proposals call for 15 new casinos
• Both proposals take away the right of local communities to vote on whether to allow a casino to be built.
• Both proposals are loaded with loopholes. It's the Lottery flim-flam all over again.
• And both proposals give a tiny number of people constitutionally-guaranteed casino licenses.

If someone asks you to sign one of these petitions, you should steer clear. Don't sign away your right to vote -- and don't write so many loopholes into the constitution.