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

New Jersey Sets March as Problem Gambling Awareness Month

New Jersey’s Casino Control Commission along with the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey have recognized March as Problem Gambling Awareness Month.

Published March 24, 2014

Will New York Put VLTs at JFK?

New York senators have backed a resolution that would allow video lottery terminals at JFK and LaGuardia airports in New York City. The nonbinding resolution doesn’t have much traction,...

Published March 24, 2014

Atlantic City Seeks Nonprofit Convention Sales Arm

The New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority is looking to create a nonprofit organization to attract conventions to Atlantic City. The move is designed to make the city...

Published March 24, 2014

Clark County Again Looks at Dotty’s Model

Clark County, Nevada lawmakers may do battle again with the operators of so-called slot taverns. According to regulations, the taverns must make most of their money from food and...

Published March 24, 2014

HOB Fires Staffers Caught in Sting

The Foundation Room at the House of Blues in Las Vegas has fired 10 employees implicated in a sting operation that uncovered drug activity and prostitution. MGM Resorts, the...

Published March 24, 2014

New Hampshire Kills Casino Bill Again

Members of the House in New Hampshire reaffirmed their longstanding opposition to casino gaming last week. They voted 173-144 to kill a bill that would have authorized a single...

Published March 17, 2014

Caesars Takes $1.9 in Write-Downs

Las Vegas-based casino operator Caesars Entertainment is reporting a $1.9 billion asset impairment charge related to sinking revenues in Atlantic City (Bally’s AC at left); its abrupt exit from...

Published March 17, 2014

Kentucky Pro-Casino Groups Divided

The main pro-casino advocacy groups in Kentucky are divided over which of the three gaming expansion bills before the legislature they will support. House Speaker Larry Clark (l.) wants...

Published March 17, 2014

First Casino in Massachusetts Breaks Ground on Slots Parlor

Penn National Gaming Inc. wasted no time after being awarded the first casino license by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, and scheduled its groundbreaking for a week later in Plainville...

Published March 17, 2014

New York Casinos: Yes and No

Sullivan and Ulster counties are in favor of casinos. So are Albany and Rensselaer counties. Saratoga County said yes at the polls, but the city of Saratoga Springs says...

Published March 17, 2014

Initiatives May Expand Colorado Gambling

Colorado voters may have a chance to approve initiatives that would allow slots, table games and video lottery machines at Arapahoe Park Racetrack (l.) in Aurora, and at two...

Published March 17, 2014

Ohio’s Casinos Have Wrought Great Changes

It’s been a year since the last casino resort the Horseshoe Casino (l.), opened in Ohio in Cincinnati, and they have brought about great changes in the communities they...

Published March 17, 2014

Riviera, Trop, TI Reach Contracts with Culinary

It’s three down, 12 to go as Las Vegas’s Culinary and Bartenders unions continue to negotiate new contracts with the city’s stand-alone resorts. All the casinos owned by MGM...

Published March 17, 2014

Boom Time at Boomtown

With a $20 million upgrade, the 50-year-old hotel-casino in the Reno-Sparks region has come back to life. M1 Gaming bought the historic property last year from Pinnacle Entertainment. With...

Published March 17, 2014

Aqueduct in Jeopardy?

The New York Racing Association is questioning whether Aqueduct in Queens, New York, can or should continue as a horseracing venue. In addition to declines across the industry, the...

Published March 17, 2014

MGM to Pay Half-Mil for Drug Activities at HOB

MGM Resorts International has agreed to pay $500,000 plus costs to settle a five-county complaint regarding drug sales and prostitution at the House of Blues’ Foundation Room (l.) at...

Published March 17, 2014

Lower Casino Attendance Sounds Alarm in Missouri

Funding for veterans' homes and education have taken a hit in Missouri as visitors and tax revenue have declined. Officials blame the especially harsh winter, the economic downturn and...

Published March 17, 2014