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Less money brought into the community - 2004-02-10
What happens here, could stay here.

But unfortunately for lots of local businesses, it appears to be an increasing number of visitors' dollars didn't even make the trip this last year.

Some industry consultants feel the addition of new gaming options around the nation will appeal to gamblers' appetites to see Las Vegas, but only 23 percent of those surveyed revealed the addition of casinos outside Nevada has stimulated their desire to visit Las Vegas; in 2002, that figure was 45 percent.
Read the full story at Las Vegas Review Journal

Lynch offers a fresh face to gaming control board - 2004-02-10
With gambling developing into an ever-increasing industry in Rhode Island, and with the prospect of a Foxwoods-style resort casino on the horizon, Attorney General Patrick Lynch wants to tighten up the methods in which the state regulates the gaming industry.

Lynch revealed a legislation on Monday that would design a five-member state Gaming Control Commission to license, regulate and implement the laws and regulations over casino gambling.
Read the full story at Woonsocket Call