Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bet that the state could balance its budgetnext year with revenue from bigger Indian casinos is unrealistic, a reportreleased Friday by the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst said.Schwarzenegger’s proposal to let tribes install some 22,500 new slotmachines and then collect more than $500 million in new fees and taxes fromthem is critical to […]
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The Pennsylvania Gambling Control Board has three words for Donald Trump onwhy he lost his bid to build a slots casino in Philadelphia: location,location, location. The board decided in December against licensing theproposed $350 million TrumpStreet Casino complex on the edge of NorthPhiladelphia. Instead, it approved projects on two riverfront parcels. OnThursday, the board disclosed […]
Manchester will be the home of the United Kingdom’s first super casino,ushering in new “hard forms” of gambling never before seen in the islandnations, including unlimited-prize jackpot machines. British MethodistChurch officials say the new Gambling Act has paved the way for theManchester super casino, announced on Jan. 30, and 17 smaller casinos aroundthe country, expected […]
THE world’s biggest gaming company could join the race to build Britain’sfirst supercasino in Manchester. Harrah’s Entertainment, the Nevada-basedfirm behind Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, said it was `looking forward’ tofinding out about the bidding process and claimed it would offer `the mostcomplete package for the UK’. Stanley Leisure, Britain’s biggest casinofirm, also confirmed its […]
CHINA has secretly harboured the eldest son of North Korean dictator KimJong-il in Macau for three years, despite the US-led crackdown on NorthKorea’s finances in the former Portuguese colony, local reports say. KimJong-nam, the North Korean leader’s eldest son and former heir apparent, hasbeen living with his family in Macau, dividing his time between five-starhotels […]
Unlike past public hearings on legislation to legalize racetrack games,which were split evenly, Thursday’s hearing on the latest version of thebill was a one-sided affair. Pro-table games speakers outnumberedanti-gambling advocates by a 52-16 margin at a two-hour, 40-minute hearingin the House of Delegates Thursday.For the first hour, the hearing alternated between supporters and opponentsof the […]
Israel has effectively banned online poker and casino websites from offeringservices to Israeli customers following a court case ruling against VictorChandler’s CEO Michael Carlton. The new ruling closes a legal uncertaintythat online gambling companies previously operated in. “A foreign companyoperating an online gambling site may not hide behind the fact that thecompany and its servers […]
As The Gazette launches its most important ever campaign – to saveBlackpool’s casino and regeneration dreams – SHELAGH PARKINSON and NICK HYDEspeak to those who believe it is vital we keep fighting That is message asthe dust settles on the resort’s supercasino snub. Amazement, anger,bewilderment – the list is endless when trying to describe the […]
The California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs released a study onthe prevalence of problem gambling “in the nation” this week, but did notidentify which company conducted the research, how big a sample it coveredor whether it was confined solely to land gambling. The department’s Officeof Problem Gambling (OPG) said that the study had revealed […]
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 makes unlawful thereceipt by a gambling business of proceeds or monies in connection withunlawful internet gambling. The Act, which represents the first piece ofFederal legislation to explicitly deal with online gambling, makes clear theUS government’s intention to stop the flow of funds from Americans to onlinegaming operators […]
Online gambling 24 hours a day. EuroMillions jackpots in the tens ofmillions of pounds, and now the UK’s first “super-casino” in Manchester.Never before have there been so many opportunities – and incentives – forpeople to become seriously addicted to gambling. According to the BritishMedical Association there are an estimated 300,000 ‘problem gamblers’ in theUK, and […]
Industry leaders teamed with local officials this week to tout casino-stylegambling as the doorway to more jobs and tourist bucks, while fighting offslot machine competition in cross-border Pennsylvania. Before they spoke,bipartisan bills surfaced in both the House of Delegates and Senate seekinglocal option referendums in the dog-and-horse track counties of Ohio,Jefferson, Kanawha and Hancock. And […]
MANCHESTER has beaten off the more fancied Blackpool and Greenwich in therace to host the UK’s first Las Vegas-style super casino. Scarborough andLeeds are to get smaller casinos too. Altogether, there will be 17 newgambling houses built across the country. But where does yesterday’sannouncement leave York’s chances of one day having its own casino? And […]
Heading into the second third of this legislative session, the casinogambling war officially is on, and opposition forces wasted no time Tuesdaywith words and threats. In the House, a longtime foe, Delegate KelliSobonya, R-Cabell, is preparing 40 amendments to the proposal that would letvoters in dog-and-horse track counties of Hancock, Jefferson, Ohio andKanawha vote on […]