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This segment was made available on Thursday, October 28th, 2004.

Props. 68 & 70: Gambling Explainers

Produced by Blair Fell / Edited by Omega Hsu

BOTH REJECTED

Two initiatives on the ballot, 68 and 70, deal with gambling. But have you ever wondered why horse racing and the lottery are legal, but casinos are only legal on Indian land? Did you know that the first Indian casinos in California came about as a result of a 1987 Supreme Court case? We explain the history of California’s gaming industry, poised to overtake Nevada as the “go-to” gambling state.

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