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Cash-Starved Iowa Looking to License Four More Casinos

Another state in need of money is asking to expand the number of licensed casinos within its borders.
Always happens. Legislators against gambling, but who need money to balance their budgets, turn to…what else? Gambling.
That’s what is happening in Iowa.
Iowa now has 17 state licensed casinos, but the governor, Chet Culver, is saying that more are [...]

Dodge City (Kansas) Madness: State Run Casino a Smashing Success

Remember when you were a kid and all those TV shows took place in Dodge City, which was kind of the edge of the western frontier, where crooks and the law met?
Remember Matt Dillon and Chester and Miss Kitty.
And the gambling. Miss Kitty ran a casino, you know?
Now the state is running a casino in [...]

This Kinda Pisses Me Off: Colorado Casino Regulators Look to Lower Blackjack Payouts (And Increase Revenues for Government)

I don’t know about you, but don’t you think Government should keep their budgets in order and not screw people who gamble in sanctioned casinos.
Well, seems like jurisdictions that are running at deficits will do anything to find money.
Colorado casinos want regulators to lower the minimum payout on blackjacks.
Under a proposal that is currently [...]

Sports Books at New Jersey Racetracks? It Just Might Happen

It just blows my mind to see how state legislators, once adamantly anti gambling, are now embracing it in order to bring in much needed revenues.
Latest trend is in hard-strapped New Jersey, where a state Senate committee approved a proposed constitutional amendment to allow sports betting in Atlantic City casinos and at New Jersey racetracks, [...]

A Casino in Hawaii? Could Happen As Legislators Consider Legalizing Gambling

The Aloha state, which has always made it’s living on the tourism industry, is now considering legalizing gambling.
Say what?
It’s all about the state’s budget deficit. Naturally.
Did you ever think it was about anything else but money?
Ain’t it funny how state legislatures after state legislatures around the country have all of sudden adopted gambling as a [...]

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