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New PG Post 08.18.05 Vol.73#33 The Pri nce Ge orge’s Pos t A C ommuniTy newsPAPer for PrinCe GeorGe ’s CounTy Since 1932 Vol. 81, No. 2 January 10 — January 16 2013 Prince George’s County, Maryland Newspaper of Record Phone: 301-627-0900 25 cents General Assembly Prepares For Legislative Session Casino Taxes, Death Penalty, Gun Control and Budget are Some of the Current Issues to be Discussed Revenue By JULIE BAUGHMAN cliff discussions in Washington threat - the most important issues in 2013 tion has been, generally speaking, will - Capital News Service ening to dramatically affect taxes and would be the proposed increase in gas ing to do that and vote for that. But it's the economy, plans for the 2013 session taxes to generate funding for transporta - more controversial in other areas of the Often Short ANNAPOLIS - An increase in gas in Maryland may be severely altered tion projects. state," Dumais said. "But I understand taxes, a repeal of the death penalty and depending on the outcome. "We have to somehow address trans - when you're in a rural area and you have a renewed discussion of liability for pit Maryland has a huge public sector portation funding," Dumais said. to drive farther just for groceries … it is of Promises bull owners are some of the issues cur - workforce, and is home to a multitude Dumais said that she, along with the sort of a different equation for a rural Pro-Gambling Groups rently on the table for Maryland's 2013 of government agencies and military rest of the Montgomery County delega - community than for a community like legislative session. operations. Any cutbacks in govern - tion, has supported raising taxes on gas, Rockville." Advertisements Pushed In addition, the recent shootings at ment spending or closure of govern - even if just by one penny, in order to Delegate Kathy Afzali, R-Frederick, Allowing Slot Machines Sandy Hook Elementary School in ment agencies would dramatically hurt generate desperately needed revenue. represents a county with many rural Newtown, Conn., have prompted Gov. the state. However, she thinks a bill proposing a communities like those Dumais By AISHA AZHAR Martin O'Malley and others to promise Delegate Kathleen Dumais, D- statewide raise would face challenges described, and is adamantly against any Capital News Service gun control legislation in the upcoming Montgomery, the vice chair of the because of the disparity between rural session. House Judiciary Committee, said that and urban areas. COLLEGE PARK -- When However, with the ongoing fiscal See ASSEMBLY, Page A 3 should the fiscal cliff be avoided, one of The "Montgomery County delega - Florida’s pro-gambling groups launched a series of advertise - ments pushing voters to allow slot Table Games machines in 2004, they claimed gambling would rake in $500 mil - Bring More lion for state schools annually. In reality, those slot machines have generated roughly $600 mil - Jobs Than Slots lion in total for the state over six years -- only 20 percent of what By KELSI LOOS was promised. Capital News Service Casinos have expanded across the country over the last two WASHINGTON - The imple - decades, as cash-strapped states mentation of table games and 24- have looked for new sources of hour gaming in Maryland will cre - revenue to plug their budget holes. ate employment opportunities, but Before 1989, only two states competition from Horseshoe allowed casinos in the modern era Casino in Baltimore and the pro - -- New Jersey and Nevada. posed casino at the National Since then, lawmakers in 20 Harbor will likely affect the labor other states have approved casinos, market geographically, according betting on the promise of high to experts. returns to fund public programs Maryland voters approved a like education or to cut taxes. But referendum last November in many of those states, the actual expanding gaming in Maryland. It payoff has been lower than what allowed for a new casino in Prince supporters initially promised, a George's County, the operation of CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE PHOTO BY DANA AMIHERE Capital News Service review of Morales, 39, and Costello, 30, aren’t unique. About 29,000 same-sex couples in the U.S. include a foreign partner, table games in Maryland, and 24- nationwide casino expansion according to UCLA researchers Gary Gates and Craig Konnoth’s 2011 analysis of census data. hour gambling. found. “Tables create jobs, they create “The fact is that revenue projec - a whole heck of a lot more jobs tions and benefits to the state are than slot machines,” said Frank Binational Same-Sex Couples widely exaggerated as a PR mech - Fantini of Fantini Research, a anism,” said Prof. John Kindt, a gaming industry e-daily. researcher at University of Illinois. Each 24-hour table will employ Maryland voters approved about five dealers and additional Still Seek Immigration Equality Question 7 in November, which staff such as supervisors and allowed casinos to stay open for 24 money handlers, Fantini said. By DANA AMIHERE tion. Morales’ mother is in the natural - only recognizes heterosexual mar - hours and added table games. It Gov. Martin O’Malley released Capital News Service ization process herself, her brother riages, bars same-sex couples for all also authorized the construction of a statement estimating that an can’t sponsor her by law, she doesn’t federal purposes, including filing a Maryland’s sixth casino in Prince additional 2,300 jobs would result POTOMAC - Maryland’s same-sex have any children and there’s a backlog joint tax return, Social Security sur - George’s county. from the gaming expansion. couples may have won the right to for nurses in immigration. vivors’ benefits and obtaining a green Supporters of casino expansion Pennsylvania introduced 624 marry on Election Day, but binational “As thrilled as we are and see it in a card. in Maryland billed it as a much- table games in July 2010 which couples like Kelly Costello and Fabiola positive light that we’re moving on the Morales, 39, and Costello, 30, aren’t needed boost for the state’s educa - led to 3,649 new hires the first Morales continue to fight to have their right path,” Costello said, “I think it’s unique. About 29,000 same-sex couples tion sector. Some advertisements year. By June 2012, 5,480 people unions recognized. important for people to realize that the in the U.S. include a foreign partner, claimed it would add around $200 had been hired to administer the Immigration law permits one’s par - state can’t give us that critical benefit of according to UCLA researchers Gary million annually to the education games, said Richard McGarvey ent, spouse or child to petition for a being able to sponsor a spouse (for nat - Gates and Craig Konnoth’s 2011 analy - fund. spokesman for the Pennsylvania move to the United States. uralization as a U.S. citizen). DOMA Gaming Control Board. However, a sponsor has to be a per - blocks that.” Maryland Live!, the state’s manent U.S. resident to make the peti - The Defense of Marriage Act, which See COUPLES, Page A 7 See PROMISES , Page A 5 largest casino, employs 1,500 and plans to hire 1,200 more people with the implementation of table games and 24-hour gaming, DC, Virginia Continue to Spurn Gaming, As Casino Numbers Explode according to a company press release. By CHRIS LEYDEN from the nation's capital and the Old considers himself one of the more pro- gaming in Maryland, West Virginia and The casino will add 150 table Capital News Service Dominion state. gaming members of the council. Delaware affect the District. Although games including blackjack, craps While both Virginia and D.C. have D.C. Councilman Jack Evans agreed Evans said the bill will likely expire at and roulette and plans to be open WASHINGTON – With casino legalized some forms of gambling in the with Brown, and noted that not only the end of the year and not be reintro - 24-hours starting on Dec. 26. approvals expanding down the East past (both have lotteries and the District would the City Council have to pass leg - duced, he could see a benefit to a casino Fantini confirmed that 1,200 Coast into the Mid-Atlantic, two juris - recently legalized online gaming before islation, but it would need approval from across the Potomac River in National new jobs would be a reasonable dictions remain resistant to their finan - repealing the law) neither has, nor is the U.S. Congress. Harbor. estimate for a casino installing cial allure – D.C. and Virginia – and expected to have, an actual casino. "Generally there is a lot of opposition "I think actually a National Harbor 150 table games. that's not likely to change anytime soon. "There's always been an attitude that in Congress to gambling in the nation's casino would be helpful to the city. You Hollywood Casino in Maryland's sixth casino, expected to the nation's capital should not have a capital, and among the residents, as well, know it brings people to the region that Perryville is also implementing 15 be built in National Harbor, would only bricks-and-mortar casino," said D.C. in the District," said Evans. might not come otherwise," said Evans. be about a mile from the borders of both Councilman Michael A. Brown. Brown, Evans, along with D.C. Councilman Virginia and the District of Columbia. who visits casinos himself and intro - Marion Barry, introduced a bill in See JOBS, Page A 3 It's expected to draw many customers duced the online gaming legislation, September that was meant to study how See EXPLODE, Page A 7 INSIDE Super Storm Recovery Help The National Urban League Climate Change Construction Movie Review “Les Misérables ” Earth Talk Senators Barbara A.
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