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News Brief: Horsemen laid the groundwork yesterday for another push to gain slot-like gambling machines at Indiana racetracks, making a presentation designed to impress lawmakers with the industry's value to the state.

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

News Brief: Assemblywoman Loni Hancock says that she would introduce a constitutional amendment calling for greater legislative oversight and public consideration of Indian gaming compacts.

News Brief: The Manzanita Indian band's hopes of developing an off-reservation casino in Calexico are getting a big boost with the backing of a new business partner: the Viejas tribe.

News Brief: A platoon of attorneys armed with reams of paperwork appeared in Superior Court to argue Donald Trump's $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the Eastern Pequots.

Las Vegas Sands Inc. said it's opening a $1.01 billion credit line for the Venetian.

Metro Police has moved its Tourism Safety Unit to the Las Vegas Convention Center from downtown's City Hall to provide quicker response time to the tourism district, Metro officials said.

News Brief: Low wages and high insurance premiums leave many hospitality workers at four northwest Indiana riverboat casinos turning to state subsidies for family health care needs, a union-sponsored study shows.

News Brief: Developer C.J. Betters has filed a federal lawsuit against Gov. Ed Rendell and the Pennsylvania Legislature leaders charging that the state's new gambling law were written specifically to block his efforts to build a thoroughbred racetrack with a slot machine casino in Hays.

News Brief: Southeastern Indiana's riverboat casinos combined to collect nearly $70 million in July, the region's best-grossing month ever.

A truck owned by Marla Letizia's Mobile Billboards of Las Vegas rolls along the Strip adorned with an advertisement.

News Brief: Colorado casinos have rebounded from their first ever decline in fiscal 2003.

News Brief: The Greektown Casino has been open for four years and its two downtown Detroit competitors a year longer, but the debate over whether they're an economic benefit or social blight is as fierce as ever.

News Brief: Following the success of televised poker in cable, ‘The Ultimate Poker Challenge’ is ready to place its bets in syndication.

News Brief: Poker rookie, Wilma Glorioso, competed against nine other players at Harrah's North Kansas City Casino & Hotel, including the 2003 world champion of poker and walked away the winner.

News Brief: Ho-Chunk nation is pushing forward with plans to develop a casino and entertainment complex in south suburban Lynwood.

News Brief: The Seneca Allegany Casino will bring in between $133 million to $178 million in slot machine revenue in its first full year of operation, according to a casino impact study funded by the city of Salamanca.

The preliminary price for MGM Mirage to buy Mandalay Resort Group has edged up to $8.1 billion in the two months since the deal was announced in June, but Wall Street analysts on Friday said the merger still makes sense for investors and the combined company.

Refusing to settle for pie in the sky when they're promising to actually build there, a pair of Australian developers said late Thursday they'll soon erect Las Vegas' tallest habitable structure directly north of the Sahara.

News Brief: A mistake that resulted in $3 million in Indiana riverboat gambling revenue not being used as planned to lower school taxes has left Harrison County residents saddled with higher property taxes this year.