2007 April 07 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

If money talks, here’s what it’s telling us about the 2008 presidential race: This will be the most expensive campaign in the history of politics, with strategists predicting that each major party’s eventual … via Salisbury Post

DES MOINES, Iowa The N-C-A-A is raising concerns about the University of Iowa’s advertising relationship with a casino and the state’s lottery.

As the Mashpee Wampanoags push Beacon Hill for a green light to open a Las Vegas-style casino, the tribe may hold the trump card: bingo slots. If the tribe is denied the right to open a traditional gambling…

PHOENIX - Chandler residents are organizing opposition to the Gila River Indian Community’s plans to build a casino south of the Phoenix suburb.

“Big Slick’, ‘Blackjack’, ‘Twenty’, even a ‘Pair’. The ‘Double Down”

A four-page campaign brochure candidate Terry Bruce mailed to Reno County voters in 2004 did not mention gambling or casinos.

DETROIT — Receipts from the city’s taxes, except those from casinos, aren’t growing to make up for smaller state and federal subsidies, according to a newspaper’s analysis published…

State Rep. Kasha Kelley (R-Arkansas City) would have voted against the recent bill to expand gambling in the state regardless of how it was packaged or processed.

The sports world is talking about the game-fixing point scandal at the University of Toledo. The FBI has charged Toledo Rockets running back Harvey “Scooter” McDougle Jr. with taking cash…