âWeâre. on the front lines every dayâ: Restaurant workers frustrated by not being included for vaccine âWeâre. on the front lines every dayâ: Restaurant workers frustrated by not being included for vaccine By C.J. LeMaster | March 12, 2021 at 10:44 PM CST - Updated March 13 at 10:45 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - More than 120,000 Mississippians work in the restaurant and food service industry, but they and those who work in many other professions arenât eligible to get the coronavirus vaccine.
âYou either come to work every day, be at risk, or say, Iâm not gonna do it. And now thereâs an unemployment question. Iâve seen that happen on several occasions,â said Lance Gammill, general manager at Capitol Grill.
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Regular session will host big bets
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The fate of one of the state’s 15 casino licenses and the structure of sports betting in Louisiana will both be on the proverbial agenda for the regular session that convenes April 12. And while gaming advocates, lobbyists and attorneys are working overtime to carve out compromises now, the two issues could become among the hottest debated by lawmakers this year.
The matter of what to do with the license of the Bossier-based Diamond Jacks Casino was last discussed by the Legislature in 2018, when a plan to relocate the operation to Tangipahoa failed to gain traction. Now parent company Peninsula Pacific Entertainment is putting its force behind another effort to move the license to eastern St. Tammany Parish, in the Slidell area.
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