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City hall to put squeeze on casinos

Guadalajara city hall wants to double the license fee for casinos to operate in the municipality but judging from the much heavier charges applied in some other parts of the country, local gambling impresarios won’t be overly concerned.

Guadalajara city councilors will vote to increase the cost of permits for the 11 casinos in the municipality from 420,000 to one million pesos in 2014.

3,000 new potholes appear every day in GDL

As this week’s heavy rains tore great chunks out of the city streets, National Action Party (PAN) councilor Mario Salazar Madera accused Guadalajara’s municipal government of not spending a penny of the 38 million pesos it has budgeted for road repairs in 2013.