Tue, Nov 25, 2008
The edifice of Kansas’s the regional casinos envisioned by the Expanded Lottery Act is cracking, with yet another developer, Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. announcing that it is pulling out from building a $535 million regional gaming resort that it had been chosen to create in Mulvane, in the south central part of the state.
Fri, Nov 28, 2008
Last year, Kansas’s lawmakers authorized four regional casinos as a sure way to address the state’s budgetary problems, which some fear could be as much as $1 billion in two years. Projections for the first year’s gross revenues were set at as much as $200 million, with the state’s take estimated at over $40 million from the state-owned casinos. Today the operators chosen to build and operate two of the four casinos have walked away, taking their $25 million deposits with them. The tax bonanza is starting to wilt like a slowly leaking party balloon.
Fri, Feb 20, 2009
The battle for casino gaming in Massachusetts has begun. It began last week with the removal, by Speaker Robert DeLeo (l.), of Rep. Daniel E. Bosley as chairman of the House committee responsible for gambling.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009
A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in a Rhode Island case—Carcieri v. Salazar—in one fell swoop alters the landscape for Indian casinos, and may call into question dozens of existing agreements held by tribes, including the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Minnesota, owners of the Mystic Lake Casino (l.).
Fri, Oct 09, 2009
Despite efforts by California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to postpone a court order until he can appeal it in February, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week ordered the California Gambling Control Commission to begin issuing over 10,000 slot machine licenses that the state had maintained it didn’t have to issue. Fantasy Springs in Indio (l.) was one of the first to apply.
Fri, Dec 10, 2010
Maine is in the midst of a recount of an election that if verified will allow Black Bear Entertainment to build a casino resort in Oxford County (rendering at l.).
Sun, Aug 21, 2011
While he continued to refuse to state whether he would sign or veto the bill that would massively expand the number of slot machines in the state, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn engaged in some verbal sparring with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (l.) over the issue. Emanuel wants to include gaming revenues in the city budget.
Sat, Aug 27, 2011
Proponents of online gaming in California will have to wait until next year to see the legislature take up a bill that would legalize online poker in the Golden State, after Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (l.) put it to rest. Tribes still have disagreements and the extra time could give them time to reach a middle ground.
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