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What cost of casinos? - 2004-02-14
California's 54 Indian casinos generate somewhere between $4 billion and $6 billion annually. Casinos have turned impoverished Indian tribes into economic powerhouses. It's barely shocking that tribes without casinos want to tap into the state's lucrative gambling market.

As is constantly the case, local response to the prospect of a Plymouth casino is mixed. Many locals fear that a casino will introduce traffic and crime and ruin their peaceful rural quality of life.
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Legislators mixed on casino project - 2004-02-14
Some resident officials stated Friday they will fight efforts to alter the state constitution to permit non-Indians to run casinos around the state.
But Assemblyman Roy McDonald, R-Wilton, stated that the expansion of legalized gambling may be hard to stop -- and he isn't going to be one of those trying.

The proposal would authorize for casinos in the Buffalo region and the Catskills. Any change to the state constitution would need the vote of both houses in two separately-elected state legislatures, then authorization in a statewide referendum.
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