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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The sun is setting fast and early over Yarbeshe, a hillside neighborhood ofcrumbling brick houses, dark alleys and a creaky wooden drawbridge thatsways uneasily over a stream in this fabled gateway city that links farwestern China to the recesses of central Asia. Winter is arriving. You wouldknow it instantly by looking at the director Marc […]
The hypocrisy of government institutions that support general forms ofgambling, but ban Internet gambling on moral grounds has at last beenexamined by the international magazine Newsweek in it’s upcoming January 8issue. And the story has been picked up and distributed widely by otheronline and offline media.Titled “Morality vs. Money – nations say they attack Internet […]
The number of video gambling machines in Montana declined slightly between2004 and June 30, 2006, but gamblers were putting more money in the machinesthat remained. Statistics compiled by the Gambling Control Division of theDepartment of Justice show that the total number of establishments withvideo gambling statewide increased by just one between ’04 and the end […]
A recovery in the online gaming economy act is gaining traction, accordingto several reports. The passage of the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act by the US left a swath of economic misery in its wake, butefforts by the major players in the industry to refocus their energies onEurope and Asia are starting to pay dividends. Both […]
Arthur James Welmas, who served as chairman of the Cabazon Band of MissionIndians when the small tribe won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in1987 that laid the foundation for the Indian gambling movement, has died. Hewas 77. Mr. Welmas, who led the Riverside County tribe for a decade, died ofkidney failure and complications […]
Those looking for skilled gambling establishments in the village will haveto keep waiting as Village Council on Wednesday extended a temporary ban onthe machines. Mayor Don R. Bethel said the temporary ban will give counciltime to pass regulations for the gambling machines. Bethel said regulationsare needed because many out-of-town individuals have inquired aboutoperating machines in […]
Phase one implementation includes 40 multi-player electronic gamblingmachines. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed for competitive reasons.Located at Jai Alai Building, Avenida de Amizade, Macau, in Communist China,Jai Alai Casino Macau has 67,075 square feet of gambling with about 250 slotmachines, 61 table games and 4 VIP rooms, and is open 24 hours a […]
Brian and Terry Leblanc were once a couple of average guys, spending theirdays washing windows and their nights drinking beer and watching sports ontelevision. In the late 1980s, the brothers won about $90,000 at Toronto’sWoodbine race track and decided to put that money toward more sportsbetting. Within a few years, the Leblancs were managing a […]
A sophisticated Long Island gambling ring that took in $8.6 million a yearwas broken up with the arrest of 14 people, the Suffolk County districtattorney said on Wednesday. The district attorney, Thomas J. Spota, saidthat the 14-month investigation also uncovered lucrative marijuana andfireworks smuggling rackets that were run by the chief bookmaker, SalvatoreGerrato, 45, of […]