Chinese businessman Cao Yanglin let his lunch of slow-cooked beef rib withtruffle puree and lemon cream sauce go cold as he talked about his gamblingspree the night before at the baccarat tables in Macau – the world's newepicenter for gambling. The 58-year-old property developer said he won$3,840 at the Las Vegas-style Wynn Macau casino hotel, […]
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Calgary Catholic schools are back where they started. Those Catholic schoolscurrently raising cash through gambling still don't have a date to stopsucking up casino and bingo bucks after a school board task force couldn'tcome to a decision. But Catholic school board chair Cathie Williams says theboard will now huddle and decide on a date later […]
ACalifornia Senate committee recently learned that while many of us love togamble, quite a few suffer from addiction as casinos empty their pockets.The state's legal gambling operations make $13 billion a year – and rising –yet such operations put no money into assisting those with gamblingproblems, including addiction. The committee also learned some disturbingfacts – […]
In a vast, dimly lit room with a low ceiling and frosted glass chandeliers –but without the scent or sight of a smoky haze – video lottery terminals arearrayed in ranks like soldiers. "I used to go to Atlantic City and I hatedit when people would sit next to me smoking a cigarette," said RosaRodriguez […]
The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) is announcing the NationalProblem Gambling Awareness Week which is set to run from March 5 – 11. Theinformation displayed during the week will help people decipher warningsigns of problem gambling and make people aware of places they can call ifthey discover a problem. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board […]
State gambling regulators have agreed to delay until next year a debate onwhether to issue new licenses allowing additional casinos in the state. TheIowa Racing and Gaming Commission decided unanimously Thursday that moretime is needed to assess the financial performance of four new casinos thatwere granted licenses in 2005 before deciding if the state can […]
As parents we worry. We worry about whether our kids are too fat or toothin, how to get them into good schools and whether they'll fall off theirbikes or be abducted. Then they get a bit older and we anguish over whetherthey're smoking pot, having sex or hanging out with the wrong crowd. Then,no sooner […]
Legal gambling operations make $13 billion a year from California's boominggaming industry but do little to aid the hundreds of thousands whose livesit ruins or ease damage to society, lawmakers said Tuesday. A Senatecommittee, which intends to swiftly tackle the problem, was surprised atsome findings during a nearly four-hour informational hearing: A governmentWeb site for […]
A decision on whether Catholic schools should get funding from the proceedsof gambling is hanging in limbo. Catholic school board spokesman Lori Nagysaid yesterday that debate on the issue was halted when Edmonton ArchbishopTom Collins was reassigned to another diocese. "We did have a discussionwith (Archbishop Collins) initially about it," Nagy said. "Right after that,he […]
For pioneering mobile gambling operator Slotland.com, news at the recent3GSM mobile conference in Barcelona was all good. Developing technologiesare making it easier, cheaper and more fun to play casino games like slotmachines on mobile phones and that puts a smile on the face of JohnLancelet, Mobile Games Director at Slotland.com. There was a lot to […]
Seeing licensed gambling establishments popping up in the St. Paul Diocese,Bishop Luc Bouchard decided to speak out. "If the bishop doesn't do it, whowill?" Bouchard told the WCR. On Ash Wednesday, Bouchard issued a 2,800-wordpastoral letter on legalized gambling, tracing its rather innocentbeginnings in Alberta to its development as a billion-dollar boon forprovincial coffers – […]
After a lot of questions, Sedgwick County agrees to be a part of a coalitionto include south central Kansas in expanded gambling discussions. Fivecounties are considering this coalition: Sedgwick, Harvey, Sumner, Cowleyand Kingman. On Wednesday, Sedgwick County Commissioners questioned what itmeans to be a part of the group, which will be known as the South […]
Nevada gaming regulators said Tuesday that MGM Mirage's 50-50 partnershipwith Chinese businesswoman Pansy Ho in an under-construction hotel-casino inMacau was suitable under the state's regulations covering investmentsoutside the Silver State. After a hearing that lasted more than five hours,the Gaming Control Board unanimously approved the arrangement in which MGMMirage will own 50 percent of a […]
Vices are as American as apple pie – tobacco, alcohol, gambling, pornographyand many others absolutely saturate today's society. Just as prevalent aregovernment policies to control them. Laws crafted to regulate the salaciousappetite of the public are among the most controversial public policies –take the American alcohol prohibition failure as a prime example. Onlinegamblers today find […]