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Artist's rendering of the proposed Cowlitz Casino Resort.
Washington newspaper still opposes Cowlitz Tribe casino project:
Despite a tentative new agreement that spells out details for a proposed Cowlitz tribal casino in Clark County, the justification for such a facility continues to ring hollow. The Cowlitz Tribe plans to take approximately 152 acres west of La Center into trust for the purpose of building the casino. Never mind that the tribal headquarters are in Longview in Cowlitz County, that a tribal housing center is farther north in Toledo in Lewis County, or that numerous historical documents describe tribal homelands as being north of Clark County. Tribal officials are eager to establish a gaming center as close to the Portland-Vancouver market as possible, regardless of what their own history tells them. Those aspects of the debate, which has been going on for more than a decade, remain in limbo while awaiting arguments in front of a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. A year ago, Judge Barbara J. Rothstein rightly tossed a monkey wrench into the tribe’s plans by throwing out a 2010 Record of Decision that recognized the tribe’s right to establish a reservation on the site near La Center.Get the Story:
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