Atlantic City Casino ‘Warehousing’ Bill Moves in New Jersey Senate

A bill in the New Jersey State Senate to prevent casino operators from closing a casino and then reopening it with lower wages for workers has passed a committee...

Published October 3, 2016

Rhode Island Casino Campaign Heats up

The proponents of a casino in Tiverton, Rhode Island casino have opened a headquarters in the town in advance of the November election. Voters are being asked to allow...

Published October 3, 2016

MGM Improving National Harbor Roads

In preparation for the future opening of the $1.3 billion MGM National Harbor casino, hotel and entertainment complex in Oxon, Maryland, MGM Resorts International is spending $10 million on...

Published October 3, 2016

Atlantic City Tries to Save Its MUA and Itself

In an unusual move, Atlantic City has proposed selling one of its biggest assets to its semi-independent Municipal Utilities Authority to create about $100 million in needed cash. If...

Published October 3, 2016

Pro-Casino Expansion Campaign Shuts Down in New Jersey

A Rutgers Eagleton Poll shows 50 percent of New Jersey voters are against expanding casinos in the state outside of Atlantic City. The poll found only 40 percent of...

Published September 26, 2016

The End is Near for Caesars

Junior creditors have signed on to a deal that would end the two-year Caesars bankruptcy. But will the senior creditors go along with the deal? And what will the...

Published September 26, 2016

Massachusetts ‘Sits Tight’ on Southeastern Casino

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is so far not answering calls that it reopen the licensing process for the southeastern gaming zone of the state now that First Light (l.)...

Published September 26, 2016

Suits and Countersuits Over Arkansas Casino Drive

An anti-casino group recently filed a lawsuit in the Arkansas Supreme Court to keep a constitutional amendment allowing casinos in Boone, Miller and Washington county off the November ballot....

Published September 26, 2016

R.I. to Vote on Tiverton Slots

An election in which Rhode Island voters and the town of Tiverton will decide whether to allow a rather innocuously designed slots casino to be located along the Massachusetts...

Published September 26, 2016

Missouri Town Promotes Casino

In 2004, Missouri voters rejected a constitutional amendment allowing a casino in Rockaway Beach, near Branson. Now Mayor Don Smith said he's rebooting an effort to bring a casino...

Published September 26, 2016

Delaware’s Casinos Petition for Tax Relief

For the third year in a row, the state’s struggling casinos are asking for tax relief to help them cope in a crowded Northeast gaming market. Their proposals include...

Published September 26, 2016

First Down for Sands on Stadium Plan

The panel appointed to vet major tourism projects for southern Nevada has given its OK to a plan backed by Las Vegas Sands to build a $1.9 billion stadium...

Published September 26, 2016

Cedar Rapids Boutique Casino Proposed in Iowa

A $40 million "boutique" casino has been proposed by Wild Rose Casinos & Resorts, which operates a casino in Jefferson (l.), for downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with a 25,000...

Published September 26, 2016

Gambling Growing In Rust Belt Cities

Following the industrial decline of the 1970s, many Rustbelt cities turned to casinos as a source of revenue. A prime example is the Sands Casino Bethlehem (l.) in Pennsylvania,...

Published September 26, 2016

Is U.S. Ready for Chinese Tourism?

A new study from Boyd Group International indicates the United States is unprepared to take advantage of an expected travel boom that could bring millions of free-spending Chinese tourists...

Published September 26, 2016

AGA: Betting Ban Costing NFL, TV Plenty

A Nielsen Sports survey of football bettors commissioned by the American Gaming Association concludes that the NFL and the TV networks showing its games and their advertisers are losing...

Published September 26, 2016

New Jersey Bill Would Prevent ‘Warehousing’ of Casino Licenses

In response to concerns that the closing Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City could ‘warehouse’ its license, and then re-open later with lower wages for workers, New Jersey’s...

Published September 26, 2016

Puerto Rico Plans Airport Slots

Puerto Rico’s ailing economy has the government of the U.S. commonwealth in dire need of tax revenue. Can 200 slot machines at the island’s Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport...

Published September 26, 2016

DOJ Calls for AML Vigilance

Federal financial officials focused on prevention of money laundering during a conference at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas covering the Bank Secrecy Act.

Published September 26, 2016

MGM Makes Millennials Play With Mobile Slots

Everybody knows that the millennial generation links to the world through mobile phones. Now they are able to link to slots play at MGM casinos through the same medium.

Published September 26, 2016