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Tulalip training system offers growth for the community - 2004-02-12
Cynthia Jones has been employed since she was 16, serving fast food, landscaping, working the Bremerton Naval Shipyard and dealing black jack at the Tulalip Casino, but never remaining in one career.

The single mother of four also barely made more than $7 an hour and never made over $14.

Now Jones, 38, is attempting to end the cycle of low-wage jobs by tapping the next reservoir of chance on the Tulalip Reservation: construction.
Read the full story at Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA

Panel Rules To Maintain Video Gambling - 2004-02-12
An effort to repeal video gambling was thrown out Wednesday by a South Dakota House committee.
The State Affairs Committee ruled 9-4 to throw out the bill after those against it noted that voters statewide have three times refused to omit the video lottery.

The state and video lottery companies divide the money players lose in the machines, which include poker, blackjack, keno and bingo games. Player losses totaled $212.2 million in the budget year ending last June, so the state and businesses each reaped $106.1 million.
Read the full story at Press and Dakotan