Cincinnati and Columbus are on opposite sides when it comes to a ballotinitiative that would permit gambling in Ohio. Elected officials andbusiness leaders in Cincinnati said Monday they support a ballot initiativeto permit gambling in Ohio, a sharp contrast to the Columbus Chamber andColumbus Partnership’s opposition of Issue 3. If voters approve theamendment, it would […]
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Two online gambling firms have announced that they are suspending theiroperations in the US ahead of the imminent implementation of new lawsrestricting internet gaming. In separate statements released this morning,Fairground Gaming and Fireone said that they would immediately cease tradingin the US once the unlawful internet gambling enforcement act had beenratified. The legislation, due to […]
San Jose City Councilman and mayoral candidate Chuck Reed Monday called onopponent Vice Mayor Cindy Chavez to refuse $55,000 in campaign donationsfrom Indian gambling interests. Flanked by former Mayor Tom McEnery andDeputy District Attorney David Pandori, Reed said he was “sounding the alarmto warn of a threat to San Jose’s quality of life. Gambling money […]
It’s an election year and already one of the biggest issues that has manyvoters’ attention isn’t the scandal of Mark Foley and the congressional pagewho he instant messaged for a year and a half, but it is a bill in which thegovernment is prepared to crack down on online gambling. But is this billgoing to […]
The US Congress has passed tough new federal restrictions on onlinegambling, including measures that prohibit US gamblers from using creditcards, cheques and electronic fund transfers to settle online wagers. Themove came just hours after Peter Dicks, former chairman of Sportingbet, theBritish internet bookmaker, was freed by a New York court, signalling defeatfor Louisiana’s attempt to […]
Ministers want to make Britain the world centre of internet gambling,documents released by Whitehall showed today. The records showed thatministers and officials have met internet gambling tycoons and theirrepresentatives no less than 26 times over the past two years. The detailssuggest that the Government is engaged in a campaign of cosying up to onlinegambling concerns […]
The dice are rolling hot on the tables of what was once a sleepy Portuguesecolony. With millions of mainland Chinese high rollers arriving every year,developers in Macau are racing to turn the former enclave into Asia’sglittering gambling capital. The stakes are high. At the baccarat table ofone casino, a middle-aged Chinese woman shrugs off the […]
The world’s largest computer facilities for online gaming are located inCanada and are nicknamed MIT. This doesn’t stand for the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology: It stands for the Mohawk Institute of Technology.That is because this gigantic “server park” — which drives many of theonline gambling sites — is inside the Mohawk First Nations Reserve, alsoknown as […]
The 1-800 hotline established to help Ontario’s addicted gamblers is beinginundated with thousands of calls from people looking for winning lotterynumbers, prompting the government to rethink the way it advertises thetelephone number. Figures obtained by the Citizen show that the number of“misdirected” phone calls to Ontario’s Problem Gambling Helpline hasskyrocketed since its inception in 1997, […]
If the law that is planned to be signed by United States President, GeorgeW. Bush, on Friday is actually signed and enforced, it would be a directspitting in the face of the United States to the World Trade Organization.The WTO claims that the exemptions in the US Internet Gambling ProhibitionBill for horse racing and state […]
This November in Ohio, voters will be asked whether or not to legalizecasino gambling and use percentages of the tax revenue from “games ofchance” to assist students with college tuition. If approved, the plan wouldlegalize casino gambling at 7 racetracks across Ohio as well as 2 casinos inCleveland. Very similar to the legislation voted on […]
Nova Scotia is taking on a leadership role that may help stop problemgambling before it starts. The province has helped develop software thatprevents children from surfing their way on to gaming websites. As many as500 families across Nova Scotia will be able to try out the product forfree. “It’s Internet-blocking software that’s specially designed to […]
WPT Enterprises, Inc. the company that helped launch the current globalpoker boom, issued a statement today encouraging the U.S. poker community tofocus on the bright future ahead in the wake of Congressional passage of the“Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.” “The JusticeDepartment has been very clear that it believes online gaming to be illegalin […]
The rate of problem gambling in Surrey and Langley rose in 2005 after thearrival of casino gaming here. That’s among the first-year findings of amulti-year study conducted for the provincial government into thesocio-economic impacts of casinos in the Lower Mainland. It’s tracing theeffects on residents of the spring 2005 opening of Langley Cascades casinoand slot […]