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Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislators momentarily suspended their understanding of plain, simple English last spring to approve a new gambling compact with the Seminole Tribe. Maybe they were dazzled by the prospect of about $6 billion in casino revenue.

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The suit filed against the Department of the Interior in federal court in Washington, D.C. claims the agreement illegally expands gambling in Florida.

Las Vegas Sands wants more casinos in North Florida The gambling giant is backing ballot initiatives that would ask voters to approve as many as three new casinos in the Sunshine State.     The Las Vegas Sands casino sits behind the Fisherman’s Wharf in Macau, which had $45 billion in casino earnings in 2013. Macau earned $38 billion with 35 casinos in 2012, passing the United States, where 12,000 casinos took in $37.3 billion in ’12. Published 1 hour ago TALLAHASSEE — A politica...

MIAMI — Count Doral among the latest Miami-Dade cities to erect defenses against casino politics as the prospect of gambling — and a Trump-branded casino — creeps closer. The Doral city council on Wednesday voted 4-0 to ban gambling and casinos from the city unless approved by residents in a referendum, weeks after Gov. Ron DeSantis negotiated a $500 million gaming deal with the Seminole Tribe ...

American Opinion: While America is getting lost in political dysfunction, Bush is offering us clarity in a better narrative. He’s inviting us back to our identity as members of a family, growing up together.

Dallas Morning News/Tribune News Service In the 2009 engaging memoir "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by author Donald Miller, there is a story about a concerned dad whose teenage daughter is going off the rails. She’s hanging out with the wrong crowd, experimenting with drugs, dating a loser. The dad comes to Miller for advice, and Miller suggests that the girl is stuck in a bad story. In the absence of challenge and risk, she is choosing a story that offers some level of meaning, some ...

George W. Bush’s new book invites America to imagine a better story Dallas Morning News/Tribune News Service © Tom Fox/TNS Former President George W. Bush, center, visits with Rangers co-owner Ray Davis on April 5 as he sits in a field level suite with wife Laura Bush and daughter Barbara Bush during Opening Day at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. In the 2009 engaging memoir "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by author Donald Miller, there is a story about a concern...

The common theme of Bushs books diverse stories is gratitude.