Excerpt: Jobs. Thousands of jobs for southeastern Wisconsin, That’s what those marks above symbolize. They’re real jobs — an estimated 3,356 casino jobs and another 1,400 temporary construction jobs that would come to our corner of the state if Gov. Scott Walker approves the plans by the Menominee tribe to build an $808 million Kenosha casino.
"We Can Always Build More Casinos, Right?" by Nate Silver
Esquire, 9/21/2009
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And then there's Mother Nature to contend with.
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