2007 March 13 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 6

From Stardust to just dust. The Las Vegas Strip’s first mass-market casino-hotel was imploded early Tuesday in a hail of fireworks to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp.’s $4.4 billion megaresort Echelon.

In another sign that he is seriously considering casino gambling as a ready source of cash for state government, Gov. Deval Patrick met separately yesterday with groups of state legislators on both sides of the issue.

Mar 13, 2007 FAWN GROVE - The Citizens Volunteer Fire Company, 171 S. Market St., Fawn Grove, will host basket bingo April 13 at the fire house.

New arena to be funded in part by state money from slot machine parlors The Pittsburgh Penguins reached a financing deal for a new arena that will keep the NHL team in the city where it has played since 1967.

Sally Army up in ArmsAds for online and traditional gambling will hit the UK’s airwaves from September, the government has confirmed.

An arms race of sorts has broken out among Eastern Iowa casinos, with the 6-month-old Riverside casino, which bills itself the first destination resort in the state, providing the spark.

“Star light, star bright, if I bust you I receive five grand tonight.” That modified nursery rhyme basically sums up the theme of the WPT’s Bay 101 Shooting Star championship: bust one of the tournament’s fifty …
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TOPEKA - Even before its bill is out of committee, a coalition of gambling supporters is pushing to change the legislation to focus more on casinos than slot machines at pari-mutuel racetracks.

Jeb Bush says the darnedest things. It’s hard to say which was funnier last week: the governor’s Clintonesque parsing about what a slot machine is, or his repeated pronouncements that “I’m against gambling in all forms.”