Sentences with phrase «casino gambling last»

Japan legalized casino gambling last year but is still working on the details of where and how many to authorize.

The single largest recipient of casino companies» donations was the New York Jobs Now Committee, a casino - backed PAC which lobbied in support of the passage of the statewide ballot referendum that legalized casino gambling last fall.

State lawmakers approved the expansion of casino gambling last week with enabling legislation that provides and the second passage of a constitutional amendment that now goes to voters in a referendum.

Almost 60 percent of Ulster voters approved the amendment to allow casino gambling last year.

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In it, there is a scene in which Albert Brooks discovers Julie Hagerty gambling away the last of their nest egg in a Las Vegas casino: She: We're still down!

When it comings to casino gambling, New Yorkers remain evenly divided at 46 - 46, down from 49 - 42 last month, on whether to allow the expansion of non-Indian run gaming facilities across the state.

Resorts casino is a microcosm of everything that has happened to Atlantic City's gambling market over the last 40 years: the rapid rise to fabulous riches, the slowdown and struggle as more competitors entered the...

Opponents of casino gambling rallied supporters in Springfield, Massachusetts last night where a citywide referendum on MGM Resorts» $ 800 million casino development is less than three weeks away.

Resorts casino is a microcosm of everything that has happened to Atlantic City's gambling market over the last 40 years: the rapid rise to fabulous riches, the slowdown and struggle as more competitors entered...

His proposals on education, casino gambling and the construction of the country's largest convention center in Queens are a bold departure from the uninspired and timid governance that has been stifling New York for the last decade.

The governor is optimistic Oneida and Madison Counties will go along with the deal he struck last week with the Oneida Indian Nation over casino gambling.

Picente says Oneida County has worked very closely with the state to try to improve its local economy, including reaching last year's settlement with the Oneida Indian Nation which brings casino gambling revenue to the county.

A Washington County man is challenging the enabling legislation for casino gambling in court, and points to the last - minute changes to the legislation.

Things are looking up for most of the nation's commercial casinos, as gambling revenue increased by nearly 5 percent last year and jobs held roughly steady.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli told me last night that he isn't opposed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to expand casino gambling, but adds more information is needed before the state should proceed.

Cuomo said in his State of the State address last week that he wants to expand casino gambling in New York, both as a revenue raiser and a job - creation vehicle.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, the main supporter of last year's successful effort to pass an amendment to expand casino gambling, said it'll be up to the private market to decide the growth of gambling.

A new report shows the opening of three new casinos in Upstate New York last year has sharply increased the state's gaming revenue, but it hasn't necessarily meant great things for the already existing businesses in the gambling industry.

In New York, five Indian - run casinos are now operating, all of them upstate, and limited electronic gambling is permitted at so - called racinos at nine racetracks, including one at Aqueduct that Genting opened last year.

After an all - night session last week that produced agreements on redistricting, pensions, and casino gambling, the New York Times reported «Cuomo has faced grumbling from government watchdogs and some lawmakers for condoning — and, by some accounts, demanding — a rushed process.»

When New Yorkers approved a ballot measure to open the state to Las Vegas - style gambling last year, the idea was that the benefits of seven new casinos would flow to...

Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal casino will close at the end of the Labor Day weekend amid labor strife stirred by the last in a series of bankruptcies for the former gambling empire of the presidential candidate, who hasn't been involved in the management of the casino for years, though his name remains on the façade.

And there is no reason for the gambling industry to change their tactics because the provision which would have banned campaign contributions by casino operators was quietly dropped from Proposition One at the last minute.

The success of Proposition 1, the ballot amendment to expand casino gambling, and the failure of the last amendment, to allow judges to serve until age 80, are both wins for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Voters last year agreed to allow casino gambling in New York as part of an upstate economic development strategy.

ALBANY >> Dealing the final blow to those hoping for gambling at the former Nevele hotel in Wawarsing, the state's Gambling Facility Location Board has said it will consider only Southern Tier applicants for New York's last available casino gambling at the former Nevele hotel in Wawarsing, the state's Gambling Facility Location Board has said it will consider only Southern Tier applicants for New York's last available casino Gambling Facility Location Board has said it will consider only Southern Tier applicants for New York's last available casino license.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo defended on Sunday his ties to a private lobbying group that received $ 2 million from the gambling industry last December as he was developing a plan to expand casino gambling in New York State.

The Times reported last week that Genting, a Malaysian gambling company that had worked with Mr. Cuomo on a plan to build a convention center and casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, gave $ 400,000 to the group in 2011, and that the New York Gaming Association, a trade group founded by Genting and other companies, donated the $ 2 million in December.

Last fall, New York became the 23rd state to allow commercial casino gambling, after the state passed a constitutional amendment, through a referendum, to legalize Las Vegas - style casinos.

Three commercial casinos have opened since late last year, adding to a market that already includes racetrack - based casinos, Native American casinos operated by three tribes and a host of other gambling options.

When you are binging on gambling related movies recently, I came across a film 2004 Canadian television film called «The Last Casino», which focuses on card counting.

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New Jersey legislators last year passed a bill that would have disqualified individuals who closed a casino since January 2016 from continuing to hold a gambling license for five years.