James Rutherford, Author at GGB News

Author: James Rutherford

James Rutherford is a journalist based in Atlantic City. Prior to joining GGB News, he worked in Macau as an editor and writer with the English-language monthly Inside Asian Gaming. He is co-author of “Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump: His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall” (Crossroad Press, 2015).

Casino Losses Pegged at $40 Billion Worldwide

With the worst pandemic in a century in its seventh month, the scale of its devastation on the casino industry is only now becoming clear. Gaming revenue this year...

Published July 27, 2020

New York’s Oneida Nation: Setting A High Bar for Safety

The Oneida Indian Nation takes Covid-19 seriously, and insists their guests do likewise. The nation’s New York casinos (including Turning Stone, l., in Verona) were among the first in...

Published July 13, 2020

Selling Sin City—Safely

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and ad agency R&R Partners are back doing what they do best, marketing the gambling mecca’s nonstop allure. But there’s a vital...

Published June 22, 2020

Faith, Hope & Clarity: Taking Stock of the Recovery

While no one expects gaming stocks to sink back to the frightening lows seen earlier this year, there’s not much for investors to rely on beyond the belief that...

Published June 15, 2020

On the Strip, The Beginning Has Begun

Throughout fabulous Las Vegas, the largest gaming market in the U.S., casino doors are opening again. It’s not the Strip it was. It won’t be, either, not for a...

Published June 8, 2020

Another Sign of the New Normal Free Parking on the Strip

When MGM reopens its Las Vegas Strip properties, it will do so without the parking fees it’s charged for years. Caesars has started to do the same. Observers see...

Published June 1, 2020

From Casino Pioneer, A Pioneering Idea for Player Protection

The El Cortez in Downtown Las Vegas and a local graphic design firm have created a device to help protect players and dealers when the industry reopens. El Cortez...

Published May 18, 2020

NY Casinos Could Be Closed through June

New York has been the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S., and the state’s casinos may be among the last in the nation to reopen. “We’re hanging...

Published May 11, 2020

Defying the Pandemic, Gaming Shares Rally

The casino industry has been shut down for weeks, but you wouldn’t know it from a look at recent stock prices. After hitting bottom in mid-March, they came roaring...

Published May 04, 2020

As Vegas Moves to Reopen, Operators Look to Macau

The stringent health and safety measures on the gaming floors of Macau appear to be keeping the Covid-19 contagion at bay. In Las Vegas and across the U.S., the...

Published April 27, 2020

GGB NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Mississippi’s Gregory Says ‘This Crisis Will Come to an End’

Mississippi’s 26 commercial casinos were on the upswing until the Covid-19 shutdown. Larry Gregory (l.), executive director of the Mississippi Gaming & Hospitality Association, says the industry that came...

Published April 13, 2020

WEEKLY FEATURE: Gaming Gets a Piece of $2.2 Trillion Aid Bill

The federal rescue package approved by the U.S. government last week will give gaming operators and suppliers critical loans to help them stay afloat. The plan is “an important...

Published March 30, 2020

Covid-19 in Nevada: It’s ‘War’

For the first time in history, Nevada’s casinos are closed, along with most gaming halls throughout the U.S. Operators are having to manage without a playbook, and analysts liken...

Published March 16, 2020