Like many 21-year-olds, Paco Horta divides his time between studying for college classes, hanging out with friends and playing an occasional game of soccer.


INSIDE GAMING: Gambling hardly a perfect fiscal fix
Gaming critic Tom Grey, executive director of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, was pushing an interesting point in the Illinois Legislature last week. If gaming was such an easy fix for fiscal crises, Nevada should have the biggest state budget surplus in the nation. Instead, it ranks fourth nationwide in terms of budget deficit per capita.

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NEW JERSEY CASINOS: Mixed message
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-- When New Jersey voters approved gambling in hopes of saving a dying Atlantic City, it was a roll of the dice: They were betting on a mob-tainted business that had never before been used to revitalize a city.

NEVADAN AT WORK: FRANCISCO "PACO" HORTA, Vice President, Silver Lands
Like many 21-year-olds, Paco Horta divides his time between studying for college classes, hanging out with friends and playing an occasional game of soccer.

INSIDE GAMING: Gambling hardly a perfect fiscal fix
Gaming critic Tom Grey, executive director of the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling, was pushing an interesting point in the Illinois Legislature last week.

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