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Online Blackjack News - Wyandotte County To Build Casinos Despite Controversy
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The county’s Unified Government said Friday that it would still require developers to submit by 3 p.m. Monday their proposals to manage a state-owned casino. Otherwise, officials said, they would have a hard time meeting the Dec. 31 deadline for the county to send its endorsed proposals to the Kansas Lottery Commission. The Unified Government has said it expects to receive at least half a dozen proposals.
“At this time we’re planning to move forward with our process,” said Deputy County Administrator Doug Bach.
Wyandotte and four other counties eligible for a casino are waiting for the courts to decide whether the state’s new casino gambling law violates the Kansas Constitution. Attorney General Paul Morrison filed a “friendly” lawsuit to test the new law last month with the Supreme Court in hopes of expediting the process.
But on Thursday the Supreme Court justices sent the case to Shawnee County District Court in Topeka for trial. Unified Government chief counsel Hal Walker feared that the Supreme Court’s move could create a delay of 18 months to two years, although another official said the delay could be just three months.
At stake is a law, enacted in March, that allows state-owned casinos to be built in four areas — Wyandotte, Sumner and Ford counties and either Crawford or Cherokee county.
It also allows slot machines at The Woodlands racetrack in Wyandotte County and a pari-mutuel dog track in Frontenac in Crawford County.
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| Source:
Blackjack2002 News Staff
| Monday, 24 September 2007 |
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