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Scott Van Voorhis of the Boston Herald’s business and market blog has talked to Clyde Barrow of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth’s Center for Policy Analysis, who says he has talked to William Murphy, Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, who has apparently said that a brand-new, full scale casino in Rhode…
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visited Rhode Island last evening to discuss his state’s triple-casino proposal, but Roland Benjamin thinks there are better ways for Rhode Island to compete with Massachusetts than by expanding gambling here… Quite a stir regarding the “not quite dead yet” Casino discussion. The debate reopens in response to rumblings from Massachusetts…
According to the Warwick Beacon‘s Russell J. Moore, the Rhode Island legislature is planning to revisit the gambling issue in the 2008 legislative session. The decision is unsurprising, in light of the State of Massachusetts’ apparent plans to allow casinos to be built there…Larry Berman, a spokesperson for Rhode Island House Speaker William Murphy, said…
The pressure that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s three-casino proposal puts on Rhode Island raises in the imagination a map of the United States with a cluster of red dots representing six casinos squeezed into the tiny area covered by Southern New England. Is that the reality to which we all wish to awake when the…
According to Katherine Gregg in today’s Projo, Rhode Island lottery officials aren’t planning to let little things like the voters or the meaning of the law get in the way of their quest to expand gambling in Rhode Island… With the threat of casino gambling looming in Massachusetts, there is a move to bring “virtual…
David Mittell: Like marijuana and hanging, casino gambling is against the law in Massachusetts. Yet by the power they invested in themselves, the 2,387 obliged the town and its officials to bear witness in favor of the $1 billion casino; and within moments selectmen signed a 21-page agreement binding themselves to do so. I know…
The Norwich Bulletin provides a quick guide to the current casino environment here in the northeastern U.S…Visitors to Foxwoods Resort Casino played $169 million less in its slot machines during the last 12 months than they did the previous year. Gamblers pumped $9.2 billion into slot machines at Foxwoods during the 2006-07 fiscal year, which…
According to the Projo’s 7-to-7 blog, Superior Court Justice Joseph Rodgers has ordered the Narragansett Smoke Shop Trial moved from South County to Providence citing better use of “juduical resources”. In Saturday’s Projo, Katie Mulvaney described the complete argument made by the Narragansetts for changing venue…While arguments may focus of practical issues, the defense’s petition…
Congressman Patrick Kennedy will seek to use Federal law to reverse the people of Rhode Island’s rejection of an Indian casino. But don’t worry. According to John E. Mulligan and Katherine Gregg, reporting in today’s Projo, Congressman Kennedy does not support the expansion of gambling in Rhode Island. He just favors allowing gambling to be…
According to ProJo’s 7to7 Blog: The Narragansett Indian tribe is pursuing plans to build a slot parlor on its lands in Charlestown and has approached Rhode Island’s Congressional leaders about reversing a federal law that would block their efforts. “We don’t want table games. We don’t want roulette. We want what the state has,” Chief…