David Ross, Author at GGB News

Author: David Ross

David D. Ross edits the Escondido Times-Advocate and Valley Roadrunner newspapers. A freelance journalist for over 40 years, Ross is knowledgeable about San Diego's backcountry and has written on tourism in Julian, Palomar Mountain, San Diego Safari Park—and the area’s casinos. He has a master’s degree in military history from Norwich University.

NCAA Balks at Bill That Would Let Student Athletes Cash In

A law proposed in the California legislature that would give college athletes the same rights to profit from their names, likenesses and images that professional athletes enjoy has sent...

Published September 16, 2019

Tribal & Lottery: Two Paths to Oregon Sports Betting

For a time, there will only be one place on the West Coast of Oregon where bettors can place a sports wager: Chinook Winds Casino Resort (l.) in Lincoln...

Published September 1, 2019

First N.H. Town Could Vote on Sports Betting

The town of Laconia, New Hampshire, could vote to be one of the first cities in the Granite State to ask its voters to embrace sports betting this week....

Published August 26, 2019

Wyoming Moves Toward a Gaming Commission

You can’t get more Spirit of the West and Spirit of Freedom than Wyoming, a land of wide-open spaces, 98,000 square miles and only 578,000 people. It’s taken years...

Published August 5, 2019