Hollywood Casino Toledo doesn’t just feed customers at its legendary Final Cut Steak and Seafood restaurant, or make sure that people hoping for good luck at the slot machines have snacks to sustain them. The casino has also donated more than 70,000 pounds of food to those in need since initiating a food reclamation program […]
MAYBE IT’S because I retired, but I apparently missed the meeting — the one in which it was decided that liberals should oppose casinos. While I do not enjoy gambling personally — putting my name on the ballot 20 times in 40 years used up my lifetime appetite for risk — I have never understood why […]
Casino opponents are forecasting a doomsday for the Massachusetts State Lottery if casinos are allowed to open in the state, but their predictions are not supported by the results in other large states that have introduced casinos into mature lottery markets, according to specialists and a Globe analysis. Citing a study written by a Massachusetts lawmaker in […]
Casinos in South Mississippi are joining businesses across the Coast raising awareness and money for breast cancer research in October. Harrah’s Gulf Coast created a “Pink Zone,” where blackjack table felts have been switched from green to pink. Exterior lighting also glows a pale pink during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “All month long, our bar […]
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio’s eleven casinos and racinos have not yet led to an increase in problem gambling, officials say. They credit strong prevention and education efforts that began years before the first casino, Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, opened in May, 2012. “There is nothing going on that is alerting us or alarming us,” said Scott […]
Recent casino failures in Atlantic City may influence Massachusetts residents when they vote this fall on whether to repeal a law allowing casinos in their state. But if they look beyond New Jersey, they will find casinos thriving in almost every other area of the country. In fact, it’s the burgeoning growth of “regional” casinos […]
Ken and Diane Glozer visit a casino about once a month, gassing up the car for the two-hour drive, eating a couple of meals out and staying overnight in a hotel. Carl King of Mt. Pleasant, who turned 90 on Oct. 11, recalls frequent trips to Meadows Casino in Washington County with his brother, now […]
Las Vegas, NV– For the first time ever, a new study conducted by Oxford Economics examines the broad economic impact the gaming industry as a whole has on the U.S. economy. The American Gaming Association released the first-of-its-kind study, which measures the economic impact of every facet of the casino gaming industry–commercial casinos and manufacturers and […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — U.S. casinos and the makers of the games found inside had a $240 billion economic impact and employed 1.7 million people in 2013, a study shows. That includes $38 billion in local, state and federal taxes the industry said it paid last year in gambling fees, property taxes, income taxes and […]
The U.S. commercial and tribal gaming industries generated more than $240 billion in economic impact and employed some 1.7 million people in 2013, according to a new report from the American Gaming Association. The sum includes the $38 billion that the gaming sector said it paid last year in local, state and federal taxes, the Associated Press […]