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Issue analysis - 2004-02-17
American Indian casinos employ roughly 14,000 people in Minnesota. Approximately 75 percent are non-Indian employees.

Politics: Some lawmakers believe American Indians shouldn't be permitted to hold a monopoly on casino gambling and say the state should find ways to generate more gambling revenue of its own. Others say the gambling compacts, negotiated under Gov. Rudy Perpich, were meant to be forever and backtracking on the compacts is unfair. Gov. Tim Pawlenty has opposed expanding gambling but has also said the compacts should be re-examined.
Read the full story at Duluth News Tribune

Sands gets presidential with 5th leader in 25 months - 2004-02-17
Call it Unpresidents Day for Tom Davis at Sands Casino Hotel.

Davis left his job on Monday as Sands president after one year, replaced on an interim basis by George Toth, the casino's vice president of hotel operations and security.

Toth becomes Sands' fifth president in the past 25 months and ninth since 1998.

Richard Brown, Sands' Las Vegas-based chief executive, said Davis resigned but refused to say whether Davis was pressured to do so.
Read the full story at Press of Atlantic City