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News 2003
 

02/22/03 - Casinos Cash In with Child Care for Players - As the number of casinos expands across America, so has a little-known amenity for parents who gamble — onsite child-care centers that are as dazzling for kids as the casino floor — just yards away — is for adults.

With computer games, basketball court, children's cafe, movies and cribs for infants as young as 6 weeks, children can stay as late as 2 a.m. on weekends and 11 p.m. on school nights while their parents play. While providing a fun and safe environment for children, Kids Quest centers, which are located in 20 casinos nationwide, are in fact bottom-line enterprises, intended to attract high-rolling parents, increase casino profits — and create the next generation of gamblers.


12/12/03 - Testing State's Ban on Casinos - Albany Democrat-Herald
12/12/03 - Problem Gambling
12/10/03 - Why all Oregonians should heed Florence's casino battle
11/26/03 - High court rejects petition
11/23/03 - Governor Kulongoski abdicates responsibility over casino
10/06/03 - Florence, Oregon Task Force on Casino Impacts
08/22/03 - Tribe Gets Second Try at Coastal Property
08/19/03 - Indian Casinos Earn Rebuke from Tax Hawks - Fox News
08/12/03 - Estimated cost of problem gambling in Florence
08/09/03 - NY cities learn hard way - "silver handcuffs"
08/04/03 - Florence left out of reparations debate
07/27/03 - Casino Plans in California Bring Backlash
07/05/03 - Co-conspirators in Tragedy - Oregonian Editorial
07/04/03 - PACT "NO CASINO" sign on Hwy 101
07/01/03 - Casino talks with county get ugly start
07/07/03 - Some learn Indian justice the hard way
07/05/03 - Co-conspirators in tragedy
06/13/03 - Casino would be all bad news for Florence
06/03/03 - Off-reservation casino presents tribe with hurdles
06/10/03 - Letter to DOI from U.S. House of Representatives
05/02/03 - Oregon's lawsuit against DOI - Hearing May 6
04/06/03 - On their land, tribes' law is the last word
04/04/03 - Gambling will mean big losses for everybody - Tom Grey
04/03/03 - Law firm sues tribe over unpaid legal fees for Florence site
03/30/03 - Laws give Native Americans an unfair advantage in business

02/22/03 - Casinos cash In with child care for players

12/00/02 - Tribes of Gamblers, William Saffire
09/18/02 - Gambling Exacts High Cost on Kids
01/12/02 - Casino Economics - special report
01/04/02 - Economic Impact of Legalizing Gambling - Glenn O. Thompson

10/03/01 - Casinos Lead to Losses, Not Economic Development - Scientific American

10/23/97 - Getting High on Gambling - It's often called an "invisible addiction," but for a rising number of students, gambling is proving as addictive and destructive as crack cocaine.

10/05/96 - When Gambling Calls the Shots, Theodore R. Kulongoski
04/18/96 - Florence is Better Off, Register Guard Editorial

TAKE A LOOK BACK: In 1996, the Register Guard Newspaper in Eugene, Oregon had a lot to say about the prospect of a casino in Florence: "The City Council and Florence residents should be applauded for standing up against a project that would have changed the character of the community, mostly for the worse." (Florence is Better Off," 4/18/96)

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