Church groups made a major pitch to Kanawha County voters Sunday, urging them to deny casino table games for Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming in the Aug. 11 special election.
The Associated Press has a story, as does both The Charleston Gazette and Charleston Daily Mail.
The Wheeling News-Register, meanwhile, throws out some revenue figures to question whether the state's Northern Panhandle tracks are losing customers to the new slot machine casinos in neighboring Pennsylvania.
The threat of such competition helped fuel the drive for casino table games by the West Virginia tracks. But whether Keystone State casinos will remain open has become an issue amid a stalemate over that state's new budget.
As AP reports, the failure to break the deadlock forced the furlough of more than 24,000 public workers and the shutdown of non-essential state offices.
"At least gamblers and employees of the state's five slot-machine parlors got a reprieve when a judge late Sunday granted a request by the casino owners to remain open, at least until a Tuesday hearing," the AP story said.
09 July 2007
Table Games: Kanawha County
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