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    :: Friday, January 23, 2004 ::

    Tribe revives casino plan By Scott Morris
    The tribe pressed on, using $5 million of a loan that was to eventually total $36 million to raze its 30-home village and purchase new homes elsewhere for tribal families.

    But the source of that money, a Detroit carpenters union, became a sticking point for the state Gambling Commission. The union's trustees balked at state regulators' insistence on criminal background checks.
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