NorthJersey.com
NJ casinos may allow wagers on hand-held devicesNewsworks.orgBy Phil Gregory A New Jersey Senate committee has advanced legislation that would allow Atlantic City casinos to offer customers hand-held devices to place their bets. Supporters say the devices would be attractive to a generation of gamblers who have …Former Hilton renames itself the Atlantic Club Casino [...]
Wall Street Journal
Rivals Ready Onslaught to Sway Casino DebateNew York Times“It's the sound of money and jobs being sucked right out of our state, with New Yorkers going to Connecticut and Atlantic City for casino gaming.” The 60-second radio commercial is part of a $240000 ad campaign that is now running in western New York [...]
Initiative filed to raise tax on casinosLas Vegas SunBy David McGrath Schwartz (contact) Nevada's tax on its largest casinos would jump from 6.75 percent to 9 percent under an initiative filed Tuesday by a conservative businessman. The tax, which would apply to casinos that make $250000 or more a month, …Initiative filed to raise Nevada [...]
Bloomberg
Caesars Bonds Show Casino Company Taming Debt: Corporate FinanceSan Francisco Chronicle7 (Bloomberg) — Bonds of Caesars Entertainment Corp. are outperforming casino operators including Wynn Resorts Ltd. as investors become convinced the private-equity-owned company will refinance or pay down $10.6 billion of debt maturing in 2015 even …Caesars prices shares at $9; IPO set for Wed.CBS [...]
kjrh.com
Oklahoma Attorney General Sues Tribe Over CasinoWSLSBy: ROCHELLE HINES | AP OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahoma's attorney general filed paperwork Tuesday to stop an American Indian tribe from building a controversial casino in a Tulsa suburb. The lawsuit, submitted by Attorney General Scott Pruitt in US …Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt submits suit to stop casino [...]
Calif. casino tribes kick out some membersThe Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two casino-owning tribes in California have thinned their membership ranks over the last several months, cutting off scores of people from a share of casino profits and other benefits of tribal membership.
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Kansas City Star
KCTV 5Newest Kansas casino opens, bringing in 15000 people in first dayKCTV Kansas CityEntertainment News from AP By Laura McCallister, Multimedia Producer – email By Justin Schmidt, Multimedia Journalist – bio | email The doors at Hollywood Casino opened just before noon Friday and, by 10 pm, 15000 people had come in to [...]
FlaglerLive.com
Gambling war may be over, but skirmishes lingerMiamiHerald.comGaming interests bestowed some $2 million on Florida pols in the epic battle over casino legislation. (Beyond what they spent on lobbyists) Most of the money was spent trying to wangle support for those mythical “destination casinos” in South Florida.Florida's Casino Bill “Dead for This Year”FlaglerLive.comFlorida Mega-Casino Bill [...]
Better odds for Toronto casinoToronto SunScores of buses full of Toronto gamblers leave the city at all hours in search of a little casino action and somewhere to place their bets. If a growing number of boosters have their way, it may soon be a very short trip indeed. You can bet on it.Poll: 50 [...]
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Atlantic City Tropicana casino says contract negotiations are at impasse …Press of Atlantic CityATLANTIC CITY — Tropicana Casino and Resort has declared an impasse in contract talks with the gaming industry's largest labor union and vowed to implement its “last and final offer” with or without the union's approval.Tropicana, union hit impasseCherry [...]
