Go To Prairie Meadows Before It's Too Late

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The original article from the Des Moines paper was slightly more informative:

Does that mean if there was no horse racing that there would be $29 million more for charity? Not precisely.

The costs include some expenses that would remain if Prairie Meadows were a casino only. For instance, $4.2 million of Prairie Meadows' $15.6 million lease was allocated to racing, as were a share of other departments' salaries and expenses that deal with both the casino and racing. The figure also includes $1.2 million for depreciation.

"This is arbitrary, it's not scientific," Ann Long-Richards, Prairie Meadows' vice president of finance, told the board.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pb...0405/-1/LIFE04