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...Barenaked Ladies released their newest album Sept. 12 and will begin their official U.S. concert tour at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut on Oct. 21. But they've already started promoting the album on the road—singing before a crowd of 100,000 at a stock-car racing event in Virginia...
...things sell out, but we would like to be able to get as many people that want to be there, there,” he said. He will urge future senior classes to look into increasing event capacity in future years. Chestnut also spoke of a trip to the Mohegan Sun casino, which drew about 220 attendees, but was forced to be scaled-back from earlier plans. “We tried to do a new variation on Casino Night,” said Chestnut. Efforts to have a mock casino set up on campus were eventually rebuffed by local...
DIED. GLADYS TANTAQUIDGEON, 106, medicine woman and oldest living Mohegan; in Uncasville, Conn. An expert on ancient-culture preservation, she collected tribal correspondence as well as old birth and marriage records that documented the tribe's history long after its reservation had disbanded. Her efforts helped boost the dwindling Mohegans into a federally recognized, 1,700-member tribe that now runs the successful Connecticut casino Mohegan...
...local communities overburdened by booming casinos and help defray the increased costs of local government services. California officials estimate that the tribes will pay about $100 million a year into the fund. By contrast, Connecticut collected $332 million last year from its two Indian casinos, Foxwoods and the Mohegan Sun. If California tribes were paying at the same rate--25% of slot revenue--the state would collect up to $1 billion...
...BILLIONAIRE. The biggest winner to date in Indian gaming is surely Lim Goh Tong, the 85-year-old Chinese-Malaysian businessman who bankrolled Foxwoods in northeastern Connecticut. Foxwoods, the country's largest gaming venue, is actually a constellation of five casinos about 10 miles down the road from the Mohegan Sun. On an average day, 40,000 people pass through what was a quiet, mostly rural patch of New England...