December 2008
19 Dec 08
My opposition to gambling isn't based on a religious belief. I think gambling is just a poor, destructive industry for a city, county or state to depend on. There may not be particulates spewed into the air from a smokestack or poisonous waste chemicals dumped into a river or stream, but gambling…
18 Dec 08
State lawmakers form a committee to renegotiate a gaming compact with the Seminole Indian tribe, which runs several casinos in Florida.
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A pact the tribe signed with the governor was ruled invalid earlier this year by the Florida Supreme Court. It called for $100 million annual payments by the…
17 Dec 08
A co-founder of an Internet gambling company who ranks among the world's richest people pleaded guilty on Tuesday to violating the federal wire act and agreed to forfeit $300-million as part of a cooperation deal.
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A smiling Anurag Dikshit, of the British colony of Gibraltar, entered the plea in…
16 Dec 08
Down in the Delta, Rep. JOHN MAYO, D-Clarksdale, works for a district that has 10 casinos in it and for nearly 9 years now he has been for a statewide smoking ban. While it is documented in other states with legal gambling that such a ban has helped cause declining revenues, Mayo says he "not…
15 Dec 08
It's ka-ching for gamblers who like to smoke while playing slot machines.
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The state's seven casinos are soon expected to get the state's go-ahead to enlarge the amount of their floor space occupied by slot machines played by smokers.
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When the state's new law banning smoking in most public…
13 Dec 08
Members of the United Auburn Indian Community used to live in poverty in Northern California, sleeping in cars or hunkering down in rundown houses with plastic sheeting for windows.
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Yet since the 2003 opening of their Thunder Valley casino near Lincoln, Calif., the 275-member tribe has left the…
12 Dec 08
Does a Kentucky gambling case threaten your freedom and the freedom of everyone else in the United States?
That's what online gaming companies say is at stake, and it's now up to the state Court of Appeals to decide.
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It all began when Gov. Steve Beshear went after the domain names of 141 online…
11 Dec 08
Nevada gaming revenues tumbled 22.3 percent in October, the single largest monthly drop in state history and the 10th straight month gaming revenues have fallen in the Silver State. For the year, gaming revenues are down 8.3 percent statewide.
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Casinos statewide won just under $905 million during…
10 Dec 08
The suspended gambling compact between the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Gov. Charlie Crist will undergo an intense review from a special legislative committee before lawmakers put their stamp on the deal, House Speaker Ray Sansom said Tuesday.
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Sansom, a Destin Republican and gambling opponent,…
09 Dec 08
With no sign of an economic recovery on the horizon, Station Casinos and Harrah's Entertainment are bargaining with lenders to help resolve their cash flow problems.
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It's a high stakes poker game: Both companies — loaded up with debt from leveraged buyouts set in motion before the downturn â…
08 Dec 08
Consumers may be cutting back on buying new clothes or going out to eat, but they haven't scaled back their gambling appetite in Pennsylvania.
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Despite economists' conclusion last week that the United States has been in a recession since December 2007, six of seven casinos in Pennsylvania had…
06 Dec 08
Blaming a punishing economy, the Sycuan band of El Cajon on Thursday walked away from a multibillion-dollar gambling agreement that it had pursued for years and spent $6 million to defend.
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The deal authorized an expansion from 2,000 slots the tribe now operates to as many as 5,000 machines plus…
05 Dec 08
The struggling economy has dealt a bad hand to the nation's usually robust gambling business, a downturn made even worse in Illinois, where the state's nearly year-old smoking ban has proved unhealthy to casinos.
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Among those paying the steepest prices are local governments, charities and their…
04 Dec 08
The idea of taxing gambling in Alabama is being sent up as a trial balloon as state government looks down a double-barrel of a lingering recession and retreating tax receipts.
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With state revenue declining or at a standstill, Paul Hubbert, executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association…
03 Dec 08
Leaving Atlantic City's biggest and most profitable casino for Australia wasn't an easy decision for its top executive.
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But Larry Mullin said a visit last summer to Sydney convinced him that he could help transform that gaming market in much the same way that the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa…
02 Dec 08
Study shows gambling differences between Pacific Island ethnicities and gender.
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AUT University researchers have found significant gambling differences between ethnicity and gender when studying Pacific Island parents in 2006/07, in a project funded by the Ministry of Health.
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The findings will…
01 Dec 08
There is an old adage that says seeing is believing. That's what the Atlantic Lottery Corporation in partnership with the Responsible Gambling Council is attempting to do with a Youth Awareness Drama Program to be performed at several New Brunswick high schools this week.
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House of Cards is a…
01 Dec 08
A number of large cities in New Zealand are going to be reviewing their gambling policies over the next few months.
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Dunedin, and possibly Auckland way review them well before they are legally obligated to.
Have they been conned by the pokie machine industry to review them early?
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The pokie…
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