As reported by the Midland-Reporter Telegram: “Ushering in casino gambling to help finance public schools will not be considered during the Texas Legislature’s current special session on education reform, but it will be debated when lawmakers convene for their regular biennial session next January, legislators say. “With the city of Stanton in particular wanting a […]
Tag Archives: casino
Diamond I, Inc., a developer of wireless gaming products, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Viking Productions, a Jamaica-based marketing and promotions firm, to bring Diamond I’s WifiCasino GS to venues within the Jamaican hotel and tourism industries. Viking Productions is best known for its representation of the Jamaican Bobsled […]
A group of North Las Vegas residents hopes that a casino proposed for a 16,000-home master-planned community will crap out. Opposition is mounting to the casino planned at the northwest corner of the Las Vegas Beltway and Losee Road as part of a 2,675-acre development by the Olympia Group. Organizers have submitted petitions to the […]
Initial discussion about the new partnership between Strip titan MGM Mirage and the tribe that owns and operates the world’s biggest casino has focused on the deal to build a $700 million MGM Grand-branded casino next to the tribe’s Foxwoods resort. While the plans to use an MGM Mirage brand on a casino owned by […]
As reported by the (Irish) Sunday Business Post: “Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has vowed to bring the country’s gambling clubs to their knees. For decades, Irish gambling clubs have operated in a legislative grey area because, unlike every other country in the EU, Ireland has no law specifically governing casinos. “Gambling is illegal in […]
As reported by Globes: “Recognition of tourism as a priority industry, a target of 11 million tourists in 2011, a casino in Eilat and later in Mizpe Ramon and at the Dead Sea, and more designated carriers, are among the recommendations of the national task force headed by Dan Hotels chairman Michael Federman that examined […]
As reported by the (British) Daily Express: “The family of a British tourist missing for more than a week in Australia are celebrating the news she had been found safe and well. “Frances Embleton, 24, walked into a police station in Sydney following an extensive appeal to trace her. “She disappeared just hours before she […]
A day after local labor leaders and casino executives said workers could do more for immigration reform by going to work, rumors were circulating that any workers staying away would be fired. Whether gaming and hospitality employees will stay away from their jobs to participate in the planned Day Without Immigrants protest was anyone’s guess. […]
The board of directors for the casino industry’s top lobbying group agreed unanimously this week to call for a one-year study of Internet gambling by a federal commission. The action Wednesday by the American Gaming Association in Las Vegas is likely to hinder efforts in Congress to ban Internet gambling. Association President Frank Fahrenkopf said […]
Nonunion Station Casinos isn’t encouraging its immigrant employees to come to work if they want to stay home and support Monday’s Day Without Immigrants protest. But there will be activities at all company casinos for workers who do decide to stay on the job. Station Casinos’ 14,000-person work force is about 35 percent immigrants, corporate […]
Las Vegas-based Harrah’s Entertainment said Thursday that with hotel-casinos that were once part of Caesars Entertainment now under its corporate banner, the company can turn its attention toward expanding its presence as a casino industry giant. Driven largely by contributions from the former Caesars properties and the integration of gamblers from those casinos into Harrah’s […]
Casino Data Imaging (CDI), the casino industry leader in data visualization and report writing slot analysis solutions, announced today that Casino Del Sol, Casino of the Sun, Paradise Casino Arizona, and Paradise CasinoCalifornia have licensed CDI’s CasinoCAD(C) v4 business intelligence program. Casino Del Sol and Casino of the Sun (owned and operated by the Pascua […]
As reported by the Morning Call: “The odds of a casino coming to the LehighValley, the Poconos or both got better this week as opposition to a proposed$650 million slots parlor, hotel and convention center in Limerick Townshipintensified. “Township supervisors voted unanimously Thursday night to tellthe Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board they oppose the slots parlor. […]
As reported by the UK Daily Telegraph: “A British tourist is missing afterapparently gambling away the money for her return flight to London at StarCity casino. “Frances Mary Embleton, 24, from London, was last seen at theThree Wise Monkeys bar, in Sydney’s CBD, last Saturday afternoon. “Policesaid she told a bar patron she had gambled […]