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That seems to contradict a 2018 constitutional amendment, approved by nearly 72% of the voters, requiring a public referendum on any expansion of gambling in Florida. Simply put, if this ain’t gambling expansion, grits ain’t groceries.
But as we’ve seen with other constitutional mandates put on the ballot by petition campaigns like restoring felons’ voting rights, ending partisan gerrymandering of political districts, acquiring environmentally sensitive lands and even legalization of medicinal marijuana our legislators treat popular mandates like speed bumps.
If they can’t be swerved around, they can be run over.
And with this kind of money in the pot, legislators aren’t going to let a little thing like the Constitution slow them down. DeSantis and other proponents of the compact know it will wind up in court where, as usual, the taxpayers will pay some very high hourly rates for lawyers fighting to thwart the will of the citizens.
By Mike Cummings
April 20, 2021
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Yale’s campus is always evolving to serve the university’s mission. Buildings go up, come down, and transform even during the pandemic. Yale soon will introduce several impressive new spaces for thinking, studying, relaxing, and finding inspiration.
Four major construction projects have wrapped up in the past year, despite a two-month pause at the pandemic’s onset, and a fifth project, a new field house at the university’s athletic complex in New Haven’s Westville neighborhood, is slated for completion in May. Other projects are now in progress.