A Roseburg man who sat on a panel that debated two measures on the November ballot said he found compelling arguments to allow Oregon’s first private casino to open at the old Multnomah Kennel Club complex east of Portland. Larry Hassett, 69, a retired civil engineer technician with the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, was in the minority. The Citizens’ Initiatives Review Commission, a panel of 24 Oregonians selected at random from voter registration lists, spent five days at a Portland hotel studying Measures 82 and 83. They listened and questioned supporters and opponents of the …




