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RVA 5x5 - October 28, 2023

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This week check out our five stories on:

• A preview of what could be coming to Richmond as we look inside the grand casino resorts run by casino developer Churchill Downs in Vicksburg, Sioux City, Waterloo, NY, and Erie, PA.

• The casino advocates have touted union jobs at the casino. Did you know Churchill Downs sued one of the unions at one of their gaming facilities in Kentucky less than a year after they signed a five-year collective bargaining agreement that took almost four years to resolve?

• The Times-Dispatch offered equal time to the casino opponents this week and offered them a chance to rebut the visit from casino advocates last week.

• Good news from the East End in that Bon Secours has been making the long-promised improvements to Community Hospital in the wake of last year’s stories about using a federal drug program to fund other improvements outside of the neighborhood that needs them the most…