Forrest, state law requires this Nonprofit Partnership . Casinos in iowa have to have that nonprofit partner. Itll not only hand out a cut of the gaming revenue, but hold the gambling license. Wild rose has joined forces with the newlyformed sevenmember board, cedar River Alliance for gaming or crag. Members say, a green light from the state, will mean millions for the county. Plans are still in the works, but if this becomes a least 4 of annual gaming revenue. Thats more than the state minimum of three. It could add up to a lot of money for charitable needs in the county. Wild rose is averaging about 1. 5 million per casino. Given that ours is probably that were the second largest city in the state wed be north of that. The boutique would be smaller than the last proposal by Cedar Rapids Development group. This time, fewer games, no restaurants. The total cost is a fraction of rose thinks the size reduction will decrease the amount of revenue loss felt by nearby casinos a Sticking Poi
Any major travel impacts. Saturday remains dry with low pressure heading back into the state on sunday bringing a shower chance. Have a great night and a happy thanksgiving. Tonight cloudy. Wind nw 515. Low 32 tomorrow cloudy and cool. Wind w 510 high 40 nearly a year ago a hit and run accident in ames killed eastern iowa. Now the city has fired the bus driver who hit the woman and didnt report it. Benjamin clague had been on paid administrative leave since than 28 thousand dollars during that time. Clague also served 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to failure to report an accident. He was driving a cyride bus that struck emmalee jacobs in the morning of december 14th last year. She later died from her injuries. Jacobs was 18 and from urbana. Ames says cyride drivers are city employees. The city says it kept clague on the payroll during the period of time when he had a right to appeal. Athletic administrator has filed a federal lawsuit in an effort to get reinstated. Jane meyer a
Tonight when they opened the doors, were there many shoppers . No it wasnt too bad actually there were lines only at a few stores right when the mall opened at 6. The National Retail federation predicts 1. 6 million more people will hit the stores this year over the thanksgiving weekend compared to the same time last year. And many of the shoppers i spoke with at the lindale mall said it was their First Time Ever participating. Eager shoppers tonight despite some malls like mall of america opting to stay closed on thanksgiving. 19 15 14;00 our Corporate Office decided the best opportunity for lindale was to be open tonight to provide shoppers with another opportunity to get the best sales, deals and doorbusters. I think it lessens the craziness that we see on black friday so it just starts a little earlier on thanksgiving night. Some stores like francescas and some Jewelry Stores chose not to open, which surprised some shoppers. 19 21 04;25 we were going to go to we went to rue 21. One
Heading out and about for some black friday shopping roads should be just fine across eastern iowa. Any precipitation that will fall will be extremely light if any. Temperatures this morning will be in the low to middle 30s. Expect highs to climb into the low 40s today with gradual clearing to arrive later this afternoon. High pressure will sit to our south and east late tonight and into tomorrow. This will giving us a southerly wind and on top of that well get more sunshine. This will allow for our temperatures to warm into the low 50s for some, others into the upper 40s. Sunday will bring some sun to start, but and continue into monday. Today a flurry possible early, otherwise mostly cloudy. Wind w 515. High 41 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 42 38 to 44 tonight skies clearing. Wind w 510 low 29 alo 28 dbq 29 iow 29 26 to 32 thanks britley. After enjoying the thanksgiving turkey, Many Americans hit the stores for thanksgiving evening deals. As abcs janai norman reports, hundreds more are waiting o
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