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Licenses For NY's New Casinos Still Expected This Year

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas
Published September 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM EDT
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A top state gambling official says New York remains on track to award up to three long-awaited casino licenses before the end of the year.

Three casino proposals were endorsed last year by a state casino location board. But the formal awarding of the casino licenses had to wait for the state Gaming Commission to complete regulatory tasks, including background checks on the projects' developers.

With most of that work now complete, Commission Executive Director Robert Williams told the commissioners Thursday that a final vote to formally award the licenses could come before the end of the year.

The projects are located in the Catskills, Schenectady and the Finger Lakes. Work on the Finger Lakes casino was halted this summer by a legal fight with local opponents.

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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.
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