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February 11, 2007
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Feb. 11--ONCE RIVALS, ALWAYS RIVALS: Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment and Tropicana owner Columbia Sussex Corp., which fought last year over control of Aztar Corp., have taken their feud to Baton Rouge, La.

Pinnacle wants to develop a $250 million riverboat casino project in East Baton Rouge, but Columbia Sussex, which operates one of two riverboat casinos in the state capital, doesn't want the competition. Pinnacle's plans still have to be approved by Louisiana gaming regulators and a vote of East Baton Rouge residents.

But a poll, commissioned recently by Columbia Sussex, shows that 66 percent of the citizens surveyed oppose the Pinnacle project. ...

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