An organization that lobbies for expanded casino gambling in Kansas releaseda poll this week showing 46 percent of Kansans support the creation of morenontribal casinos in the state. Thirty-nine percent of the 500 respondents,all registered voters, opposed the idea, and 15 percent were undecided. Thesurvey was commissioned by Kansans for Economic Growth and was conductedNov. […]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Hundreds of slot machines were rolling last week in Broward County, wherecrowds thronged a new “racino” at the former Hollywood Greyhound Track,newly dubbed the Mardi Gras Racetrack and Gaming Center. At nearbyGulfstream Park, slots were introduced in mid-November and more than $77million has already flowed through its machines. Two more tracks plan toopen rooms for […]
An increase in gaming revenues resulted in more money for the WashingtonCounty Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association, the Washington County GamingCommission announced. In a press release Wednesday, Washington County publicinformation officer Norman Bassett said the gaming association distributed$664,790.05 to the fire and rescue association. The money represents half ofthe gaming fund revenues from July 1 […]
Dozens of Costa Rican employees have been laid off by one of the onlinegambling industry’s larger companies, BetUS.com, according to a report fromsportsbook portal Gambling911 this week, which suggests that the company isthe latest group to significantly downsize its Costa Rica operations.Bodog.com announced similar plans last month. Costa Rica’s economy, in whichthe offshore gambling sector […]
Four men, including an Arvada postal worker, have been indicted in analleged sports gambling operation that took in as much as $85,000 in betsevery week for a year. The alleged ring was broken after undercover Arvadaand Lakewood police officers were introduced to Mark J. Evans, 38, ofArvada, who investigators say recruited bettors and collected and […]
Dozens of Costa Rican employees have been laid off by one of the onlinegambling industry’s larger companies, BetUS.com, according to a report fromsportsbook portal Gambling911 this week, which suggests that the company isthe latest group to significantly downsize its Costa Rica operations.Bodog.com announced similar plans last month. Costa Rica’s economy, in whichthe offshore gambling sector […]
Professor Alastair Gillespie, chairman of the Scottish Mathematical Council,believes that by introducing simple gambling games into Maths lessons,children will become more engaged and will likely to improve theirmathematical skills. Gillespie claims that young children have problems withmathematical problems such as probability, a concept at the heart ofgambling. “Things like tossing coins and cutting cards are […]
An increase in gaming revenues resulted in more money for the WashingtonCounty Volunteer Fire & Rescue Association, the Washington County GamingCommission announced. In a press release Wednesday, Washington County publicinformation officer Norman Bassett said the gaming association distributed$664,790.05 to the fire and rescue association. The money represents half ofthe gaming fund revenues from July 1 […]
Along California’s rugged northwest coast, a freshly paved highway exitmarked “Bald Hills Road” is for most nothing more than the entrance to LadyBird Johnson Grove and Redwood National Park. For the Yurok, the state’slargest and perhaps poorest American Indian tribe, it’s where the road home,and the Yuroks’ struggles, begin. Past the park, Bald Hills quickly […]
Re “This time, let’s get state pension reform done right,” commentary byGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dec.. 28: The reason state pension and healthbenefits are better than the private sector’s is that state salaries arebelow the private sector, significantly so at upper levels. For decades,legislators and governors of both parties have saved money in yearly budgetsby not […]
Customers at the Island Resort Casino now have access to a larger gamblingarea with more slot machines and a new gambling pit. The renovations arepart of a $43 million expansion for the Harris casino, located in the UpperPeninsula. It includes a 211-room hotel tower, 1,300 seat showroom,restaurant and bar, lounge and 18-hole golf course. Eventually, […]
We may not admit it but we are all, no matter how pious we maybe, once in awhile fascinated by riches and the rich. Given a choice most of us wouldrather be another billionaire Bill Gates than another the late MotherTheresa of Calcutta. While we easily express anger when for instancecertain sections of our nation […]
For the second time in less than a year, state lawmakers have let the clockrun out on simulcasting rights for the state’s four racetracks. At least oneof the tracks – Suffolk Downs – planned to close today because the off-trackbetting rights expired at the end of the day yesterday, and other tracks maygo dark as […]
Police have crushed the biggest gambling syndicate of 2006 in Penang, whichraked in more than RM1 million in bets a month, and detained six people,four of them women. The six were detained in a raid at the syndicate’s baselocated at a flat in Taman Seri Hijau in Jalan Perak here at about 6 pm onDec […]