#Oregon Constitution

An opinion released by the Oregon Attorney General's office on Friday finds that setting up gaming machines at The Flying Lark -a proposed destination resort by Travis Boersma, co-founder of the Dutch Bros. Coffee franchise- in Grants Pass, Josephine County, would constitute an illegal casino. "The planned concentration of 225 electronic gaming…

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Department of Justice has released an opinion that the planned gambling machines in an entertainment center next to the Grants Pass Downs horse racing track amount to a casino that would violate the Oregon Constitution. The Justice Department ruled Friday that the machines are games of chance and "do not afford…

The Oregon Constitution won't allow the billionaire co-founder of a drive-thru coffee chain to add a casino-like resort to a Grants Pass horse track he owns, the state Justice Department said in a legal opinion released Friday. The 9-page opinion by Renee Stineman, chief counsel in the department's General Counsel Division, responded to an inquiry…

Travis Boersma seemed on the home stretch to revive horse racing in Oregon. But it appears he could finish out of the money. The Oregon Department of Justice on Friday released its opinion that the gambling machines the Dutch Bros co-founder intends to put in an entertainment center adjacent to the Grants Pass Downs track amount to a casino that…

SALEM, Ore. - The odds that The Flying Lark in Grants Pass will have to shut down or move ahead without its proposed gaming machines just got much worse. An opinion released by the Oregon Attorney General's office on Friday makes clear that the state's top attorney considers the venture to be an unlawful casino. While not in itself an automatic…

SALEM, Ore. - Dutch Bros co-founder Travis Boersma's horse racing and gambling venture in Grants Pass is already facing headwinds, and two bills just introduced in the Oregon legislature seem tailor-made to blow it down. The Flying Lark, Boersma's brainchild, is an entertainment and dining complex now nearly completed next to Grants Pass Downs.…