Fund request kills casino talkAsheville Citizen-Times - CHEROKEE A bitter exchange between Gov. Mike Easley and Principal Chief Michell Hicks of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians on Wednesday followed the abrupt end to negotiations on allowing Las Vegas-style card games at Harrah s Cherokee
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Bill To Ban Restaurant Smoking Statewide KSLA-TV, LA - 11 hours ago you can light-up. Last year, Shreveport banned smoking inside all restaurants without liquor or video poker licenses. But, a bill
Grand jury gets visitors News & Observer, NC - Apr 21, 2006 The firm represented the video poker industry, which Black […]

Smoking ban heads to SenateShreveport Times - BATON ROUGE — Smoking should be prohibited in most public areas so non-smokers won’t be plagued with second-hand smoke, a Senate committee said Wednesday. The proposed smoking ban in legislation authored by Sen. Rob Marionneaux, D-Livonia, would
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Showing his cards Times Community - Ask Bret Oliverio, of Fairfax, and he will tell you he is just living the unattached, twenty-something dream. Hey, I’m young. I’m only 24. I have no kids. If an opportunity like Costa Rica comes up, I’m taking it, he said. And take it he […]

Liar’s Poker - John Hathaway Safe Haven - Gold has topped $600/oz. for the first time in 25 years. Unfortunately, for real contrarians, it is making front page news. However, financial media commentary remains fairly ignorant on the subject. The preferred explanations for gold’s rise are
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Smoking ban heads to Senate  The Times - 1 hour, 48 minutes ago BATON ROUGE — Smoking should be prohibited in most public areas so non-smokers won’t be plagued with second-hand smoke, a Senate committee said Wednesday.Save to My Web
Campaign calls for cap on N.C. gas tax  News 14 Charlotte - Apr 25 4:12 PM A campaign aims […]

Station Casinos Debuts Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa in Las Vegas; New Billion-Dollar Off-Strip Luxury Resort Opens   FinanzNachrichten - Apr 19 7:26 AM Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa from Station Casinos, ( Nachrichten ) Inc. (NYSE:STN), the first billion-dollar resort to be built off the Las Vegas Strip, opened last night in the […]

Stronger on reform News & Observer, NC - 2 hours ago If after all the reports of Black’s money-raising talents and his favors for big contributors like his fellow optometrists and video poker operators, reform is
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Towns use variety of methods to get mechanical device taxPittsburgh Post-Gazette - Officials call them mechanical devices, a tax-categorizing term which covers such entertainments as jukeboxes, pool tables, video poker machines and, in the case of one western suburb, a mechanical bull that brings to mind John Travolta and “Urban
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O Reilly USMTS drivers going all-in at Blackbird Bend SpeedwayWho Won - ONAWA, Iowa — This Friday and Saturday, April 14-15, the stars and cars of the O Reilly Auto Parts United States Modified Touring Series will invade the Blackbird Bend Speedway in Onawa, Iowa, for the inaugural CasinOmaha […]