Smoking. Gambling. A sin tax for the arts. An increase in the minimum wage.These are among the contentious issues voters here will decide at the ballotbox November 7. Perhaps the most confusing for Ohio voters are statewideIssues 4 and 5. Both would limit smoking in public places, but to differentdegrees. Issue 4 is a constitutional […]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Rev. Frank Dei, who made the disclosure said the consumption of alcohol anddrugs was threatening not only the health and education of the youth, butalso their productivity. The Rev, Minister’s observations are borne out on aregular basis by reports of students and young people engaging in bingedrinking. Just last week, eighteen final-year pupils of Adankwame […]
Some lobbyists pushing to legalize electronic gambling machines are findinga more receptive audience in eastern Indiana where authorities raided morethan 20 taverns accused of violating the law. Indiana Licensed BeverageAssociation officials drew about 40 bar and restaurant owners to a meetingTuesday. It was one of a series of public meetings around the state topersuade lawmakers […]
As a co-sponsor of a bill that was signed into law two weeks ago byPresident Bush, Jon Kyl, the Republican Senator from Arizona, has workedhard over the years to abolish online gambling utilizing the “family values”front. The current law would look to severely cut off some forms of onlinegambling via credit card transactions, though the […]
PartyGaming Plc, the world’s largest online poker company, lost 75 percentof its revenue when the company shut down its U.S. sites to comply with anew law enforcing a ban on Internet gambling. That hasn’t dented ChiefExecutive Officer Mitch Garber’s optimism. “Chaos breeds opportunity and wewill seize that opportunity,” Garber said on a conference call Oct. […]
Gambling site Bodog has odds up for the Playstation 3 launch. While I’mintrigued, I think the person setting the odds and deciding on the betsneeds to do a little more homework. The site still has bets up on whetherthe price will be changed before launch and whether the console will getapproval by the FDA before […]
The Pennsylvania Legislature was unable to finalize a long-awaited gamblingreform bill Tuesday night after the House amended a number of provisions,including one it claims was the result of a Senate drafting error. Thegambling reform bill was the second piece of major legislation on the agendathat lawmakers may be unsuccessful in finishing up before the Novemberelection […]
The unanimous vote kept the bill from going to Gov. Ed Rendell. It alsocontinued a volley between chambers that has lasted for much of the pastyear over how to fix problems identified by critics of the state’s2-year-old gambling law, with one chamber often dropping pet provisionswritten by the other. House Majority Leader Sam Smith, R-Jefferson, […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internetgambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on tooverseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any […]
Lobbyists pushing to legalize electronic gambling machines are finding amore receptive audience in eastern Indiana after authorities raided morethan 20 taverns accused of violating the law. Indiana Licensed BeverageAssociation officials drew about 40 bar and restaurant owners to a meetingTuesday. It was one of a series of public meetings around the state topersuade lawmakers that […]
Rev. Frank Dei, who made the disclosure said the consumption of alcohol anddrugs was threatening not only the health and education of the youth, butalso their productivity. The Rev, Minister’s observations are borne out on aregular basis by reports of students and young people engaging in bingedrinking. Just last week, eighteen final-year pupils of Adankwame […]
The man said to be Shanghai’s “top gangster” has been sentenced to death fordrug trafficking and other crimes. The Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate Courtfound Li Bin, 40, guilty of leading a criminal organization, trafficking indrugs, organizing attacks and illegally possessing weapons, the ShanghaiDaily reported. It said that Li’s wife and 18 members of his gang […]
Alabama’s Supreme Court chief justice race is boiling, with incumbentDrayton Nabers Jr. accusing challenger Sue Bell Cobb of taking gamblingmoney, and Cobb claiming Nabers was forced to pull a false ad. The nation’smost expensive state Supreme Court race is getting more expensive. Bothsides in the tight race plan more TV ads for the final two […]
The unanimous vote kept the bill from going to Gov. Ed Rendell. It alsocontinued a volley between chambers that has lasted for much of the pastyear over how to fix problems identified by critics of the state’s2-year-old gambling law, with one chamber often dropping pet provisionswritten by the other. House Majority Leader Sam Smith, R-Jefferson, […]