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Independent.co.uk
Independent.co.uk
One by one, residents of the Texas city of Irving stood up to voice their opposition to controversial plans for a new casino complex to open in their own backyard. “We do not live in Las Vegas because we do not want to live in Las Vegas,” one man who described himself as a local educator said at the city’s planning and zoning commission meeting last Monday. “This deal is a bad deal for Irving and what happens in Vegas has to stay in Vegas,” said another resident, during the six-hour-long meeting that rolled into the early hours Tuesday. At a separate heated town hall event the week before, oth…