Nebraska: Lincoln casino opening will have to wait after commission hearing is postponed

Nebraska: Lincoln casino opening will have to wait after commission hearing is postponed

Article brief provided by Lincoln Journal Star
  • Matt Olberding, Lincoln Journal Star
September 13, 2022 10:35 PM
  • Matt Olberding, Lincoln Journal Star

The first pulls of a slot machine at Nebraska’s first horse track casino will have to wait a few more days. The Nebraska Racing and Gaming Commission on Monday canceled a meeting that had been scheduled for Tuesday over Zoom.

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The main item on the agenda was consideration of a permanent license for the WarHorse Casino proposed for the Lincoln Race Course near U.S. 77 and West Denton Road.

WarHorse was prepared to open a temporary casino with 433 slot machines in the race course’s simulcast building on Sept. 19 if it had received a license Tuesday.

Commission Chairman Dennis Lee said a couple of members of the commission, who he did not name, expressed concerns about making the decision to grant the state’s first permanent casino license over a Zoom meeting.