March 11, 2008

The Mississippi Band of Choctaws has proposed building a casino at Exit 57 of Interstate 10. Both Gov. Haley Barbour and the U.S. Department of the Interior would have to approve the casino. Barbour said he isn’t in favor of expanding casinos beyond the counties in which they are already located and the Interior Department hasn’t granted any applications for locating a tribal casino 200 miles from a reservation.

This permit was denied.

Source:  http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080311/NEWS01/80311013

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