{"id":4033,"date":"2011-04-07T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T10:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2011-04-07T15:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T19:59:31","slug":"morning-read-mohawk-community-considers-75-million-gambling-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/07\/morning-read-mohawk-community-considers-75-million-gambling-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Mohawk community considers $75 million gambling upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x10258329\/Mohawks-consider-gaming-merger\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a> is reporting that the Bingo Palace and the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino could merge in a project that might also include a new, seven-story hotel complex.<\/p>\n<p>[I]n an announcement of the referendum on its website, the Tribal  Council states that &#8220;in order to maximize profitability at the tribe&#8217;s  gaming enterprises, it is necessary to both expand the Akwesasne Mohawk  Casino to include a hotel and to relocate the Mohawk Bingo Palace to the  Akwesasne Mohawk Casino.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement concludes by saying the Tribal Council &#8220;believes this  expansion is necessary and is in the best interest of the tribal  membership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x10258329\/Mohawks-consider-gaming-merger\">Denise Raymo&#8217;s article<\/a>, construction could begin as early as next month, if the project is approved in an April 30th referendum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that the Bingo Palace and the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4825],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}