Travel Agent Dir. City considers selling rights to its name to an offshore Internet betting firm.
Critics fear legal and ethical problems, and hometown gambling concerns object.
The question now is whether other City Council members will take up the cause. Although they have expressed legal and ethical concerns, they are intrigued enough by the proposal that it is being studied seriously at City Hall. Online gambling was launched by largely unknown, offshore entrepreneurs in the mid-1990s. But other countries around the world are hosts to such enterprises. It may not be a fiscally sound prospect.