News - Page 1178

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

A group opposed to gaming plans to appeal a court decision letting an American Indian tribe proceed with plans to build a casino in west Michigan.

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News Brief: Vickburg's first casino college has opened with goals of easing local shortages of casino employees.

News Brief: Backers of the latest attempt to bring a casino to Ohio are trying a new marketing approach.

News Brief: Hurricane Katrina gave the Beau Rivage and some other Coast casinos the opportunity to go digital and become more advanced than casino surveillance in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

News Brief: The results of a recent survey conducted by the Center for Policy Analysis at UMass Dartmouth that found wide support for at least two destination resort casinos in Massachusetts.

News Brief: Some of the state's most powerful organizations continued this week to line up behind Gov. Martin O'Malley's slots proposal, which could bring up to 15,000 slot machines to Maryland and 4,750 into Anne Arundel County.

News Brief: Gambling-industry observers estimate that 25 percent of tribal casino managers are female.

News Brief: Lawsuits, zoning fights, angry residents and battling politicians have kept any work from beginning on the $986 million Foxwoods casino and the $550 million SugarHouse casino.

News Brief: A proposed hotel development near Turning Stone Resort and Casino might be dead because the state won't let developers tap into a waterline across the road.

News Brief: Desperate for revenue, New York state has put plans to develop a racino at Aqueduct on the fast track.

Big business is taking steps to fend off an expected flood of unionizing drives if Congress approves legislation making it easier for workers to organize.

Property officials at the M Resort, Spa and Casino, an all-new $1 billion resort to be completed in the spring of 2009 on South Las Vegas Boulevard, released new details about its luxury meeting and conference facilities today.

A joint project has been announced that will re-energize the recycling program at the historic racetrack in time for the Kentucky Oaks and Derby races.

News Brief: Revel's construction cranes are trespassing over her home, claims an Atlantic City resident, who wants something done to ensure her safety in the house she has lived in since 1994.

News Brief: Sam DiGiralomo insists that he's not the mysterious gambler known publicly only by the initials 'S.D.' but he says no one believes him.

News Brief: Michigan horse racing interests filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the governor and state attorney general, alleging state lotteries and casinos are killing their industry

News Brief: The Rhode Island General Assembly attempted to make the prospect of 24-hour gambling more attractive to the host communities of Lincoln and Newport with amendments that allocate additional revenues from casinos into the coffers of the municipalities.

News Brief: New figures Wednesday from the Arizona Department of Gaming show that the revenue the tribes share with the state from their casinos was about $24.4 million for the first three months of 2008.