by David Lillard
It’s a stunning autumn morning on the interstate. Blazing strands of orange cotton stretch across the skies above the Allegheny Front, moving eastward as the car blazes west toward Wheeling and a maiden voyage to Wheeling Island Casino.
License plates on big pickups zoom past my slowpoke four cylinders in a parade of the states. Maybe because I’m on my way to a racetrack, the plates and the dreaminess of a road trip drift me back some 30 years. One Delaware plate, Maryland, Maryland, Jersey . . . I’m …

Two years ago in these pages we expressed skepticism over a proposal to allow table gaming at Charles Town Racing & Slots. Our concern had little to do with the morality of gaming itself. We acknowledge the passionate positions on both sides, but gaming already exists in the county; that boat has now sailed.
There have been other issues raised by opponents of table games. One of these is traffic. For their parts, table-games boosters can’t credibly on one hand tout the tens of thousands of new tourists who will spend …

Charles Town Races and Slots released its first table gaming television advert over the weekend.
Said Al Brittan, General Manager for the racetrack “The ad is an important part of our ongoing conversation with Jefferson County residents about the importance of protecting the current 1,200 direct jobs we provide, while adding more than 500 new local jobs with good benefits to the local economy.  Charles Town Races & Slots intends to hire hundreds of local residents and current employees to fill the many new jobs that will be created as a result …