LETTERS: Letter writers share views on the casino issue - 2004-01-13
Letters recently received by the editor, which try to create the illusion that opening a casino in Hesperia would lead to the destruction of civilization as we know it, are both amusing and misguided. We have been through “crisis de jour” number one: the Timbisha Shoshone trive doesn’t belong here — to crisis number two: crime of the worst sort will be running rampant throughout the city — to crisis number three: thousands will become hopelessly addicted to gambling, leaving the town a wasteland of jobless, homeless and helpless.

What’s next? The alien invaders will steal our water, our land, and our souls! You will have to excuse me if I’m a bit skeptical of the “sky is falling” mentality at work here by the “Armchair Anthropoligists,” “Hearsay Historians” and “Internet Intellectuals.”
Read the full story at Hesperia Star

SJTA restarts plans for A.C. garage - 2004-01-13
A state agency is reviving plans for a $20 million parking lot that was set aside after the catastrophic collapse of the Tropicana Casino and Resort parking
lot.

The South Jersey Transportation Authority postponed its project right after the Tropicana collapse on Oct. 30 to give contractors more time to study the accident, which killed four workers in an avalanche of concrete rubble.

Investigators still haven't determined the official cause of the collapse, but the transportation authority is restarting plans for its 1,600-space garage anyway.
Read the full story at Press of Atlantic City