Clark Co mulls gambling expansion
NEW ALBANY, Ind. Clark County officials hoping to land a riverboat casino are worried that campaign talk among Kentucky’s gubernatorial candidates about expanding gambling in that state could harm the southeastern Indiana county’s casino dreams.
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- Analysis of gambling market key to Clark casino
- Clark County’s bid for casino in jeopardy
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Do you know that:
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
- Legal gambling operations in Washington reported $1.7 billion in net receipts in 2005: 61 percent was reported by tribal casinos, 10 percent came from the state lottery. 2 percent of responders in a February state survey said they placed bets online.
- French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.
- In 1978, New Jersey became the second state to legalize casino gambling in an attempt to revitalize the rundown resort area of Atlantic City. The legalization was restricted only to Atlantic City.
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