Indian Gaming

Nancy Smith of Sunshine State News explores the Florida Gaming Congress:

1. Sweetness-and-light congeniality among sworn enemies, even with millions and even billions at stake.

2. Internet gambling is so not on the near horizon.

3. Pari-mutuels shouldn't be subjected to the free-market argument. They operate with a difference.

4. A South Florida destination casino makes enormous sense in Sunrise, closer to the Everglades than the beach.

5. The real gamblers, the Wall Street boys, confidently predicted that by 2020, Florida will have between three and six destination casinos throughout the state, not just in South Florida -- without ever putting the constitutional amendment against gambling to a vote of the people.

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Nancy Smith: Five Things That Surprised the Heck Out of Me at the Florida Gaming Congress (Sunshine State News 2/27)

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