According to a lifestyle study conducted by the Maltese organisationAgenzija Sedqa in collaboration with the National Focal Point for Drugs andDrug Addiction and the national commission on the abuse of drugs, alcoholand other dependencies, online gambling usage is relatively low. Just under60 percent of respondents aged between 18 and 24 admitted to having playedthe lottery, […]
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Two weeks ago, if someone wanted to read the casino-and-slots bill thatwould pass the Legislature and make perhaps the biggest social and politicalchange in Kansas in the past 20 years, its sponsors didn't have a copy toshare. Even some supporters didn't see the text of the 98-page gamblingproposal until the House began debating it March […]
Clark County officials hoping to land a riverboat casino are worriedcampaign talk among Kentucky's gubernatorial candidates about expandinggambling in that state could harm the southeastern Indiana county's casinodreams. With Kentucky's governor's race unfolding, gambling has emerged asone of the top issues. Although all three candidates in Kentucky's May 22Republican gubernatorial primary oppose expanding gambling, most […]
Early Thursday, thanks to a bizarre series of procedural moves and missteps,arm twisting and 12 hours of filibustering, the long odds finally paid off.The bill passed 21-19 and is on its way to the governor, who said Thursdayshe will sign it. In a strange twist, it was actually attempts to kill thebill by anti-gambling lawmakers […]
Online gamblers with an interest in the Eastern European nation of Polandhad reason to celebrate this week with news that the government of Poland ispreparing to license and regulate online gambling. A recent European Courtof Justice ruling in favor of British bookmakers who had been banned fromoperating in Italy without a license is expected to […]
When Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA),which forced online gambling companies to adhere to Federal and Stategambling laws, it wouldn't have been out of the ordinary to assume that thereason for the crackdown was the attempt to protect compulsive gamblers fromdescending into a morass of debt via their home computers. But, like […]
PLANS to build Britain's first supercasino in Manchester were THROWN OUT bythe House of Lords yesterday. In a disaster for Prime Minister Tony Blairand Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, peers blocked the Government's GamblingOrder by 123 votes to 120. The shock result leaves the vision of LasVegas-style casinos in Britain in tatters. And plans for 16 […]
After a 13-hour filibuster, gambling proponents found the Senate votes theyneeded early today to expand casino gaming across the state. Followingspeeches that dragged late into Wednesday night, the Senate voted 21-19 –the minimum needed for passage – just after midnight to allow casinos inSedgwick and three other counties and as many as 2,800 slot machines […]
The Kansas House of Representatives passed a bill this week allowing casinosand slot machines. Lawmakers are betting that gaming will be a cash cow forthe state. If you listen to supporters, "destination" casinos will attractpeople from around the region, and their money will boost the state andlocal economies. That's enough to sway many legislators. What […]
In advance of Wednesday's votes in Parliament on the geographicaldistribution of casino premises licences, The Salvation Army and theMethodist Church have re-stated their general concerns relating to increasedgambling opportunities, particularly the potentially devastating effects onthe vulnerable. 'Evidence suggests that the new casinos, the increasingpopularity of online gambling and the general drift towards the"normalisation" of gambling […]
Three of four West Virginia racetracks aim to have voters decide June 9whether to allow table games in their slots-only casinos, but executives saythe timing of votes in Hancock, Ohio and Kanawha counties is more abouturgency than strategy. "I don't think it was really organized. It's just thefirst available day we could get,'' Bob Marshall, […]
An odd combination of gambling opponents and supporters stalled legislationearly today that would repeal Missouri's unique gamblers' loss limit in anattempt to generate tax revenues for college scholarships. Missouri lawcurrently prohibits casino patrons from buying more than $500 inslot-machine tokens or table-game chips every two hours – the nation's onlysuch betting cap. Senate legislation would […]
Citing a proliferation of illegal video gambling machines, members of a keySenate committee are considering a crackdown on bars, truck stops, clubs andother retailers caught with the devices. The plan developed by SenateRepublican leaders would be the legislature's first significant step towardrooting out the tens of thousands of machines that operate under names likeCherry Master […]
The Kansas House has approved a measure that would allow casinos and slotmachines at dog and horse tracks. The 64-58 vote this mornign givessupporters of expanded gambling the hope that they could end 15 years oflegislative failures. The measure now heads to the Senate. Backers of themeasure say the state eventually could realize 200 million […]