MGM Opposes Nevada Education Tax

MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren says the gaming company with 56,000 employees in Nevada will work to defeat a 2 percent margins tax that would fund education in...

Published March 31, 2014

Atlantic City Alliance Takes New Approach

Atlantic City Alliance, the nonprofit group led by Liza Cartmell (l.) and formed to market Atlantic City to tourists plans to augment communications efforts by focusing on specific events...

Published March 31, 2014

Florida Panel Holds First Gambling Hearing

At a recent meeting of the Florida House Select Committee on Gaming, Speaker Will Weatherford (l.) said no expanded gambling legislation will pass without a constitutional amendment letting voters...

Published March 24, 2014

Texans Support Expanded Gambling

With new leadership about to take control in the Texas legislature in more than a decade, pro-gaming supporters hope to stem the loss of more than $4 billion Texans...

Published March 24, 2014

Massachusetts Tribal Casino in Doubt

The entry by Foxwoods into the gaming license process for a casino at the New Harbor Mall (l.) in Fall River gives the southeastern gaming zone a new face....

Published March 24, 2014

Kentucky Expansion Hanging by Thread

Greg Stumbo (l.), the speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, declared bills to create a constitutional amendment expanding gambling dead unless the Senate passes it first.

Published March 24, 2014

Casino Issue Not Buried in New Hampshire

Despite what some would call a conclusive defeat of gaming expansion in the New Hampshire House, Senator Lou D’Allesandro (l.) and some diehard casino supporters of the Rockingham Park...

Published March 24, 2014

Resistance in Delaware

In the wake of a new projection showing lower revenues for the fiscal year, members of the Delaware General Assembly are objecting to a proposed tax and fee break...

Published March 24, 2014

More Casino Bidders in New York

The Stockbridge Munsee tribe may be getting in on the action, and other would-be bidders are coming out with details about their New York casino plans, including Empire Resorts’...

Published March 24, 2014

Warner Gaming Joins Biloxi Boardwalk

William Warner’s Warner Hospitality has signed on to develop and manage Chris Ferrara’s Biloxi Boardwalk Resort and Casino in East Biloxi, Mississippi (l.). The property will feature a casino,...

Published March 24, 2014

Illinois May Expand Gaming

Illinois could add a mega-casino in Chicago and several smaller casinos in the suburbs if a lawmaker has his way. Legislation being considered could empower a Windy City casino...

Published March 24, 2014

Is Boyd Gaming REIT-Ready?

The hedge fund Elliott Associates has acquired a 5 percent stake in Las Vegas-based Boy Gaming. That’s led analysts to speculate Boyd will attempt to form a real estate...

Published March 24, 2014

Tropicana Atlantic City Announces Major Renovations

Tropicana Atlantic City has announced plans for a $35 million renovation, which would create a massive light show at the casino, refurbish Tropicana’s north tower and add new retail...

Published March 24, 2014

Iowa Casinos Like Competition, Says Expert

Learn to stop worrying and love competition is the message that a veteran of Iowa gaming, and a proponent of the proposed Cedar Crossing Casino, in Cedar Rapids, has...

Published March 24, 2014

New Jersey Lawmakers Decry Lack of Sports Betting

With the NCAA basketball tournament under way, several New Jersey lawmakers held a press conference in Atlantic City pointing out that while Las Vegas casinos are packed with bettors,...

Published March 24, 2014

LVH, Stratosphere OK Union Deals

The Culinary and Bartenders unions in Las Vegas have reached tentative agreements with the Stratosphere and LVH for new five-year employee contracts. Hundreds of employees at the new Quad...

Published March 24, 2014

Horizon to Become Park Tahoe Casino

Under ownership of the Park family and NevaOne LLC, the historic Horizon Casino Resort in Lake Tahoe will become the Park Tahoe.

Published March 24, 2014

Best-Ever March in Vegas?

A combination of big sporting events and big conventions could break last year’s record-setting tourism numbers for the month of March. Last year, 3.5 million visitors came to town....

Published March 24, 2014

Revel Atlantic City Workers Explore Unionizing

A group of Revel casino workers recently presented the Atlantic City casino’s management with a petition asking that they be allowed to explore unionizing the casino. The Revel Union...

Published March 24, 2014

McCarran Plans Bond Issue

With airport revenues on the rise, officials at McCarran International outside Las Vegas plans to sell $316 million in bonds. County officials are confident the second-largest U.S. airport will...

Published March 24, 2014