Presently, 58 percent of 4 percent of Evangeline Downs' profits goes to the parish council.
"They were the governing authority at that time. Now we are the governing authority," said Mayor Anna Simmons, referring to Opelousas' annexation of Evangeline Downs. Read the full story at Sarasota Herald-Tribune
In Atlantic City, a Time to See and Raise Them - 2004-02-07 The setting sun is mocking the tough few taking in the Boardwalk on one of the coldest days of a cold winter. The sky to the southwest is lined with a fiery orange, but everything else is gray, a bleak midwinter's landscape. Young men dressed as if they are headed for the Russian front wipe their noses as they stand on the Boardwalk by their pushcarts, waiting for customers to emerge from the warmth of one casino looking to be wheeled to another. The men will not make much money today.
On the corner of Pacific and Iowa Avenues, steel barricades direct traffic around a disaster site. Read the full story at New York Times
