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...Vegas. I'm in Connecticut--heading toward Uncasville, home of the Mohegan Tribal Nation, to be exact. The pale halo I see is the reflection of my own headlights in the enveloping fog. It is 12:45 a.m. on Sunday morning. I have been driving since 10:30 p.m. Saturday. I turn off of I-95, onto Route 2A, southeastern Connecticut's very own boulevard of broken dreams, and then onto Mohegan Sun Boulevard, pipeline to the gaming phenomenon known as Mohegan Sun. After three tries driving up and down the strip, I finally find where I should...
...Away from the tables for once, I take an opportunity to check out the complex's other attractions. Among other things, Mohegan Sun offers three full-service restaurants, two performance venues, an arcade and play-place for children and an elderly woman trying to get some sleep on a bench near the Summer Entrance. The restaurants are overpriced and close by 2 a.m. The performance venues are similarly dead at this time of night. It is nice of the casino to provide entertainment for children while their parents piss away the their college funds. The elderly woman looks very uncomfortable...
...retrace my steps to the car, and then retrace my path to Route 2A. The road between Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods is both treacherous and well-traveled at 3:40 am. Fog masks the curves in the road, which I can only presume are quite sharp in places. Those who haven't left the casinos by this time of morning have only one reason to be on the road: to get to the other casino. Trying not to tempt the road rage of the either drunk or disgruntled drivers behind me on the two-lane road, I keep the speedo...
...that good. Sitting by himself on a set of steps behind a red velvet cordon, he shouldn't be where he is. For the moment, though, no one's making any effort to move him. Things all around me are getting decidedly ugly. It's time to return to Mohegan...
...flat for the first time in three decades, and expansion was a nonstarter in several state ballot boxes last November. Even the gambling mecca itself, Las Vegas, is trying to remake itself as a "family" destination. One area where analysts are still bullish: Indian casinos. The success of the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Casinos in Connecticut has Merrill Lynch calling the state "the hottest gambling market in the country." But attempts by the federal government to regulate gambling on Indian lands are likely to result in fierce opposition. In fact...