2005 December 05 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 8

TALLAHASSEE Lawmakers return this week to address health care, slot machines and possibly a handful of other topics including new judges for Southwest Florida as they meet in special session over the next four days.

Though online casinos lack the atmosphere of real ones, they are becoming popular globally. Some 400-500 Internet gambling sites have drawn over 90 million visitors.

Vegas morphs quicker than a South Beach hotspot. One minute it was a gambling mecca, the next a family hangout, then a theme park for grown-ups and a culinary center.

On Wall Street, short interest refers to the volume of betting that a stock will fall. Conventional wisdom says you should buy stocks with huge amounts of short interest. But, you’re often better off avoiding stocks with lots of short interest.

Hulks of more than a thousand video slot machines still reeking of cigarettes and dashed hopes have found an unlikely resting place as a result of the county’s almost five-year-old crackdown on video gaming.

LAKE WORTH · Someday, the historic Casino building that has sat on a ridge overlooking the ocean since the 1940s will be torn down. That’s the one certainty as Lake Worth officials move forward on a long-delayed plan to remake the city’s aging waterfront.

When you talk about creative marketing, the first name that comes to mind is the Golden Palace Online Casino. I didn´t think it was possible for a rival online casinos company to outshine the popular online gambling site, but this week I was proven otherwise.

Three giant blades spin slowly, even laboriously, over the marshland known as City Island behind the Borgata and Harrah’s casinos. The game was a summation of the season, and both of them ended the same way for the Cherokee High School football team — in championship glory.

The Seahawks know they have to beat the defending NFC champs to be the champs as they travel to Philadelphia for this meeting between teacher and pupil. Eagles head coach Andy Reid served as an assistant coach under Seattle’s Mike…