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November 18, 2010

Casino Under Consideration For Depressed Catskills Region By Governor Paterson

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/politics&id=7793307

AP

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. David Paterson confirms he is working to reach a possible agreement to approve the construction of an Indian-owned casino the Catskills.

 

The potential deal would allow a casino to be built in Sullivan County as part of a land claim with the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans. The tribe now based in Wisconsin has long considered the Catskills their ancestral land.

A casino would infuse the economically depressed area with jobs and bring hundreds of millions of dollars a year to the cash-strapped state.

The idea, however, faces significant federal and legal hurdles and has eluded agreement for more than a decade.

 

 

 

 


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