The total net takings from gambling in the year 2004-2005 were $15.5billion, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This was up from$13.8 billion four years earlier. The preferred form of gambling is inpokies, with takings now reaching $8.7 billion, or $1 billion more than in2000-2001. Other major sources were off-course TAB takings ($2.1 billion),casino […]
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The Las Vegas Sun looks at a former gambler who is coming after theindustry. The morality of gambling is not really an open topic in Las Vegas.If you are really uncomfortable being around it and are opposed to it, don’tlive here. You will hear the sound of slot machines in every grocery storeand corner store. […]
The campaign behind a proposal to expand gambling in Ohio submitted enoughvalid signatures in its second attempt to get the initiative on the Novemberballot, state elections officials said Tuesday. The group, which ispromoting a plan to put slot machines at Ohio’s seven horse racetracks andtwo freestanding sites in downtown Cleveland, failed in its initial attemptlast […]
CHAU MA had returned from a morning walk with the dog when a man whoappeared to be a courier banged on the front door of her home in Concordwith a package for her husband, Dominic Li. When she summoned him to thedoor he was “violently and brutally” attacked and doused in hydrochloricacid as part of […]
Indiana House Minority Leader B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, has a curioustake on the current video-gambling controversy. It’s all the fault ofRepublican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ administration, which has “pushed the issue”to the point where the legislature may have to decide soon whether to makethe machines legal or not. By cracking down on the American Legion […]
A WELL-KNOWN television commentator and senior employee in the Ministry ofEnvironment and Tourism, Sackey Namugongo, is behind bars after he wasarrested on fraud-related charges. Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)officials and the Namibian Police swooped on Namugongo at WindhoekInternational Airport yesterday morning as he returned from a trip toJohannesburg, South Africa. Namugongo faces charges related to theproduction and […]
Many people who play video poker might want more than amusement for theirquarters, but they don’t expect to become rich, any more than many peoplewho play the lottery. One form of gambling has the player matching witsagainst a machine. The other lets players daydream about what it would belike to be rich. The former is […]
North Dakota Republican will not be lining up to support Frist onlinegambling ban attempt. Not all Republicans are lining up to support U.S.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s call to ban Internet gambling. NorthDakota State Rep. Jim Kasper says: “My fellow Republicans just don’t get it”when it comes to Internet gambling, reports Internet News.com. In July, […]
Backers of a proposal that would permit slot machines in Ohio might ante upmillions of dollars for the city of Cincinnati to coax that city’s leadersto look favorably on the plan. Charles Ruma, who owns Beulah Park racetrackand who is the chairman of the Ohio Learn and Earn Committee, said yesterdaythat a charitable foundation could […]
Louisiana has pinned high hopes on its casinos to play a major role in thestate’s economic recovery in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Yet this stream of revenue could well run dry if maverick Texangubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman has his way. Kinky has pledged that,if elected Governor on November 7, one of his first […]
As reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune: “The Sycuan Indian band mightsomeday build a second large casino in East County. “Under a provision thatthe tribe negotiated into its amended, 5,000-slot compact with Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Sycuan could open a second casino on 1,600 acres of adjacentland – including the golf course – that the tribe has […]
As reported by the Press of Atlantic City: “Casinos rebounded from athree-day shutdown in July to post their second-highest monthly win in cityhistory. “The city’s dozen casinos reported combined gaming revenue of$494.4 million in August, according to figures released by the state CasinoControl Commission. That’s a 4.5 percent increase from the same period lastyear, a […]
Like a terrier herding small livestock, Barbara Hewitt is consumed withdeveloping and implementing the training programs essential to a company thesize of MGM Mirage and for the growth it has planned. The company, which isalready at 70,000 employees, will grow by 28,000 workers in the next fiveyears just to keep up with announced expansion plans. […]
I wanted to share a few thoughts from my visit to Macau. Last year the Sunsent our tourism reporter Richard N. Velotta to Macau (and Beijing andSingapore) and Richard wrote a top-notch series of stories that helped Sunreaders understand the power of the Chinese economy and its tourism impacton Las Vegas, the vibrancy of Macau […]