The two sides vying for access to sport betting made their cases Tuesday to state lawmakers who say they are closing in on legislation reworking gambling in Connecticut.
Local tribe s leadership was favorably impressed with Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, one of the first two Native Americans elected to Congress in 2018.
Best of 2020: The night COVID-19 silenced the slots at Foxwoods
This story was originally published on March 18, 2020.
Mashantucket The only man at the last bar open at Foxwoods Resort Casino sipped bottled water and played Keno on a video screen embedded in the bar top. His name was George Duggan, and he came to witness a moment.
After 28 years and one month of non-stop gambling, defying blizzards and hurricanes, through bull and bear markets, the shock of Sept. 11, 2001 and the election of four presidents, Foxwoods was about to pause.
The tiniest and strongest of disrupters, the COVID-19 coronavirus, had done the impossible. It breached the bubble that keeps a casino a world unto itself, a place without clocks or windows, where the music never stops and the lights never dim.
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