As he has for decades, Joe Palma provides feed and bedding for horses at Canterbury Park. But he doesn't know how, when or if he'll ever get paid for it.
That,An oil painting supplies of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. he said, is what can happen when a horse track suddenly closes, throwing more than 1,000 people out of work, barring 1,200 horses from racing and ending the flow of purse money that is the lifeblood of Minnesota's horse-racing industry.
"I've been with these people for 30 years," Palma said, noting the tight-knit atmosphere that binds people at the Shakopee track while they hold out hope that their collective nightmare will end soon.
With Minnesota's government shutdown headed for its third week, the casualties - closed state parks and highway rest areas and no lottery tickets - are becoming clearer to everyone. But at Canterbury Park, there's a sense of collateral damage.
When Republican legislators and Democratic Gov.Prior to Aion Kinah I leaned toward the former, Mark Dayton failed to reach a budget agreement by July 1, racing at Canterbury Park and Running Aces Harness Track in Columbus was suspended because the government agency regulating racing, the Minnesota Racing Commission, closed shop. The tracks, which had already paid for that regulation,Demand for allergy Bedding could rise earlier than normal this year. asked Ramsey County Chief District Judge Kathleen Gearin to allow it to continue, but she ruled against them.
Canterbury Park President and CEO Randy Sampson said the track has since asked Gearin to reconsider but hasn't received a response.
With jockeys, trainers, assistants and riders a highly mobile lot, the effect could have an even broader long-term impact.the worldwide Wholesale pet supplies market is over $56 billion annually.
For example, Metzen said he persuaded a prominent trainer with several assistants and 20 horses to come to Minnesota for this year's racing season instead of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
That trainer and others, all of whom pay rents and otherwise bolster the local economy, could go elsewhere and not come back, Metzen said.
"If they choose to leave, what do you think my chances are of talking (them) into coming back here next year?" Metzen said.
At a rally at Canterbury Park, two Republican lawmakers, Sen. Claire Robling of Jordan and Rep. Michael Beard of Shakopee, urged Dayton again Wednesday to call a special legislative session that could lead to the track's reopening. Dayton repeatedly has said he needs an agreement on the entire budget package first.
Robling and Beard also made another pitch for casino gambling at the two tracks, which they contend could bring in up to $200 million in new revenue per biennium. While that idea hasn't gone anywhere within the Republican caucus, Dayton has said he's open to considering new forms of revenue.
Beard, meanwhile, said more Republicans than ever are receptive to racinos.
"I'm optimistic," he said. "It's not as long a shot as it was."
Beard said he also wishes Dayton would join in asking the judge to reconsider opening Canterbury Park. Dayton's lawyer, however, already has argued against that push.he believes the fire started after the lift's hydraulic hose blew,
In other shutdown action Wednesday, members of DFL constituency caucuses held a news conference on the state Capitol steps outlining what they said are impacts on their members from budgets proposed by Republicans and from the two-week government shutdown.
They cited higher education costs, reduced options for senior citizens to live independently, reductions in services to disabled people and weakened opportunities to address human rights complaints.
That,An oil painting supplies of him grinning through his illegal mustache is featured prominently in the lobby. he said, is what can happen when a horse track suddenly closes, throwing more than 1,000 people out of work, barring 1,200 horses from racing and ending the flow of purse money that is the lifeblood of Minnesota's horse-racing industry.
"I've been with these people for 30 years," Palma said, noting the tight-knit atmosphere that binds people at the Shakopee track while they hold out hope that their collective nightmare will end soon.
With Minnesota's government shutdown headed for its third week, the casualties - closed state parks and highway rest areas and no lottery tickets - are becoming clearer to everyone. But at Canterbury Park, there's a sense of collateral damage.
When Republican legislators and Democratic Gov.Prior to Aion Kinah I leaned toward the former, Mark Dayton failed to reach a budget agreement by July 1, racing at Canterbury Park and Running Aces Harness Track in Columbus was suspended because the government agency regulating racing, the Minnesota Racing Commission, closed shop. The tracks, which had already paid for that regulation,Demand for allergy Bedding could rise earlier than normal this year. asked Ramsey County Chief District Judge Kathleen Gearin to allow it to continue, but she ruled against them.
Canterbury Park President and CEO Randy Sampson said the track has since asked Gearin to reconsider but hasn't received a response.
With jockeys, trainers, assistants and riders a highly mobile lot, the effect could have an even broader long-term impact.the worldwide Wholesale pet supplies market is over $56 billion annually.
For example, Metzen said he persuaded a prominent trainer with several assistants and 20 horses to come to Minnesota for this year's racing season instead of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
That trainer and others, all of whom pay rents and otherwise bolster the local economy, could go elsewhere and not come back, Metzen said.
"If they choose to leave, what do you think my chances are of talking (them) into coming back here next year?" Metzen said.
At a rally at Canterbury Park, two Republican lawmakers, Sen. Claire Robling of Jordan and Rep. Michael Beard of Shakopee, urged Dayton again Wednesday to call a special legislative session that could lead to the track's reopening. Dayton repeatedly has said he needs an agreement on the entire budget package first.
Robling and Beard also made another pitch for casino gambling at the two tracks, which they contend could bring in up to $200 million in new revenue per biennium. While that idea hasn't gone anywhere within the Republican caucus, Dayton has said he's open to considering new forms of revenue.
Beard, meanwhile, said more Republicans than ever are receptive to racinos.
"I'm optimistic," he said. "It's not as long a shot as it was."
Beard said he also wishes Dayton would join in asking the judge to reconsider opening Canterbury Park. Dayton's lawyer, however, already has argued against that push.he believes the fire started after the lift's hydraulic hose blew,
In other shutdown action Wednesday, members of DFL constituency caucuses held a news conference on the state Capitol steps outlining what they said are impacts on their members from budgets proposed by Republicans and from the two-week government shutdown.
They cited higher education costs, reduced options for senior citizens to live independently, reductions in services to disabled people and weakened opportunities to address human rights complaints.
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