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Mississippi Official Wants Land Option Dropped

BILOXI, Mississippi – As reported by the Associated Press: "Secretary of State Eric Clark has asked a group he organized to drop discussions of inland casinos as a means of protecting the coast's gambling industry.

"However, members of the committee said Wednesday that moving casinos ashore will remain an option to be recommended to the Legislature.

"Clark argued moving casinos on land would prevent the state from collecting tidelands leases that generate about $6 million a year for environmental protection, parks, piers and educational programs.

"…The committee plans by mid-November to adopt a list of options that may include moving casinos ashore at their present sites, putting them on pilings, constructing dry docks around them or filling in earth underneath the gambling barges.

"…Clark organized the committee in June because of questions raised by a casino project on Back Bay Boulevard in Biloxi…"

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