The layoffs are the most recent sign that the Tulalips' glitzy, $78 million casino is not doing as well as expected when it opened to much fanfare in June.
The elimination of 240 jobs — mostly card dealers and food-service employees — leaves the total casino work force at just over 1,400. Read the full story at Seattle Times
2 profs: Casino deal bad - 2004-01-31 The deals made between the Ho-Chunk Nation and Madison and Dane County are not good business practices, according to two business professors from the University of Wisconsin who independently looked at two economic studies, one in favor of and the other condemning the proposed gambling expansion at the DeJope casino.
Kerry Vandell and Donald Hausch of the UW School of Business reviewed studies done by David Ward of Northstar Economics supporting the casino and a study done by William Thompson of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas against a casino. Read the full story at Wisconsin State Journal
