A new study indicates students in the eighth and 11th grades who gamble aremore likely to be involved in risky behaviors such as drinking, carryingweapons, sexual activity or fighting. "The data are startling," said JeffMarotta, problem gambling services manager in the Oregon Department of HumanServices. He said the information has bolstered a plan to make […]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Come one, come all. Find a bar, convenience store or truck stop in Decatur.Look in the back room, behind the closed doors, and you'll find one or moregambling machines. Come play and enjoy yourself. You (probably) won't get introuble because law enforcement seems to be looking the other way. I don'tgamble (except the lottery), but […]
Young adults are being called on to help friends who may have a gamblingproblems. Through friends4friends, an awareness campaign launched in 2005 bythe Responsible Gambling Council (RGC), young people are made aware of thehazards of uncontrolled gambling. The campaign provides strategies forpeople to recognize and help friends with gambling problems. The RGCrecently released a gambling […]
Deb Anderson didn't begin her 27-year banking career as a thief. She startedas a teller at Pioneer Bank, the lender in her hometown of 3,300 on theoutskirts of Sioux City. She won promotions, despite a lack of college orany formal training in banking or accounting. By 1991 she was namedcashier – a respected and powerful […]
Indianapolis Metro Police officers cited Indiana State Trooper Kyle Freemanduring a gambling raid Tuesday. They also arrested three men, including thepoker club's promoter, Ryan Row. "I have been informed that I am notsupposed to speak with you," said Row to Eyewitness News. The raid happenedTuesday night in the Pendleton Trade Center. Officers confiscated severalboxes of […]
United Future leader Peter Dunne has launched a scathing attack on what hedescribes as big government and politically correct bureaucrats. Dunne hasslammed bureaucrats for promoting "woolly" solutions to problem gambling anddrinking, rather than effective answers. He says there was, and remains, aproblem with young people drinking to excess in private homes, so raisingthe drinking age […]
A Miami executive and his wife pleaded guilty to participating in a $3.3billion illegal Internet sports gambling operation in New York on Friday,the Queens District Attorney's office said. Daniel Clarin, 32, and his wifeMelissa Clarin, 31, pleaded guilty in court to enterprise corruption andconspiracy charges for taking part in the operation that ran over a […]
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial ServicesCommittee, said on Thursday that he plans to provide more details in comingweeks on possible legislation that would overturn the U.S. Internet gamblingban, Reuters reported. "I'm not ready to give you more details, but I willbe by next week or so.There's no urgency on it," Frank […]
Investigators are looking into whether officers with the IndianapolisMetropolitan Police Department frequented a Northeastside poker club shutdown earlier this week. Meanwhile, the department on Thursday raided aNorthside carwash, arresting three people on preliminary charges ofpromoting gambling and seizing five handguns, gambling paraphernalia and$1,800 in cash. It was the third such raid since the beginning of […]
We at the Echo assume most of you are watching the NCAA men's basketballtournament with some pecuniary interest. We've arranged our brackets,entered our pools, made our speculations. Many offices similar to ours haveeven have bet some small amount of cash, since without something riding onthe outcome, few would be able to muster much appetite for […]
The 2007 NCAA men's basketball tournament is now underway, and people acrossthe nation are frantically checking scores and updating the status of theirtournament brackets. Central Michigan University faculty member Tim Otteman,a leading authority on sports-related gambling, has a few initial thoughtson sports gambling trends, particularly as they relate to so-called "MarchMadness." "Sports gambling has truly […]
Companies are unaware of the potential risks and dangers to their workplacefrom pathological gambling, addiction specialists have warned. While thegovernment recently announced the go-ahead of the first super-casino to bebuilt in Manchester, spanning 5,000sqm and housing up to 1,250unlimited-jackpot slot machines, Capio Nightingale, a private psychiatriccare hospital based in London, launched a dedicated gambling addictionservice […]
The Salvation Army has said it is "deeply concerned" by the possible effectsof new gambling advertising regulations on society. Captain Matt Spencer,from The Salvation Army's Public Affairs Unit, said: "Despite somesafeguards that appear to be incorporated into the new guidelines, TheSalvation Army remains deeply concerned about the introduction of newgambling advertising and the potential effect […]
Gambling is not an addiction that is usually associated with young people.But it is a social problem, according to the National Council on ProblemGambling, especially if left unchecked. That is why it has produced a shortfilm, hoping to address the issue before it is too late. The main characterin the 15-minute film "'RISK" develops an […]