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    Texas tribes fight to revive gambling

    By Kelley Shannon
    Livingston, Texas (AP)

    Preschoolers on the Alabama-Coushatta reservation play beneath a leaky roof and beside aging emergency exits. Tribal members who seek treatment for diabetes and cancer at the nearby health clinic share the facetious warning, “Don’t get sick after June” – money may run out for the year.

    A tourist train once lured visitors and their dollars to the reservation but today sits idle in its tunnel, weeds choking the tracks. A once-grand outdoor amphitheater is falling apart.

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