"Last week the Mdewakanton Sioux tribe, which owns Mystic Lake casino, and the Canterbury Park horse-racing track announced the tribe would contribute $75 million duirng the next decade to the track’s prize purses.

In exchange, Canterbury agreed to abandon its push for video slot machines — a proposal popularly referred to as “racino” — and to oppose further attempts to expand casino gambling in the state.

The agreement, quietly brokered by the GOP House speaker and the DFL governor, appears to end the long-simmering dispute over the tribal monopoly on casino gambling in Minnesota. Canterbury and Mystic Lake are now pulling on the same end of the rope, and saving Canterbury and the state’s horse-racing industry is no longer a selling point for racino."

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Our View: Putting an end to racino (The Mankato Free Press 6/12)

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