House Democratic Leader H. William DeWeese and Democratic Whip Mike Veon announced plans on Tuesday to introduce legislation expanding gaming opportunities in Pennsylvania.
"The estimated $1 billion in school property tax reductions available through slot machines is just the tip of the iceberg for what we could be providing to taxpayers. The addition of poker tables and roulette wheels will create an even larger revenue source for the highly anticipated property tax cuts, DeWeese said.

Rochester developer David Flaum has been working to build a casino in the Catskills for more than a decade. Now he's rolling the dice on a new proposal to give the state $500 million in exchange for a Seneca Indian Nation casino there.
The Senecas would agree to build a casino in Buffalo — their third casino in western New York — in exchange for a state compact to build a casino in either Sullivan or Ulster County, Flaum said Tuesday.

While in Los Angeles over the Christmas holidays, I was traveling down the legendary Sunset Strip, when it hit me between the eyes.

There in the heart of trendy West Hollywood, was a huge billboard for the Morongo Casino Resort and Spa with the headline, 'The hottest nightclub in LA isn’t even in LA.' The graphic featured a big bouncer standing between two cacti.

LARAMIE -- The current controversies over barroom poker and electronic bingo are nothing new. Wyoming has had gambling and gambling legislation since before the state began.

You could say that Wyoming was settled on a gamble. Pioneers sold everything before coming to the unknown West, speculators laid out towns in sagebrush, miners dreamed of striking it rich, and farmers and ranchers won and lost fortunes due to drought or harsh winters.

Casino Fortune wants to buy the Charging Bull, but city officials may not accept the bid to put a gambling company’s logo beneath a statue closely linked with capitalism and the stock market. Famously, the State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has tried his best to make business hard for the online gambling industry.

The city and artist Arturo Di Modica will have to approve the buyer, who will have to donate the bull and keep it in its current home at Bowling Green.

American and Mexican scientists study the causes of the resistance of the pines of that country, analyzing the possibility of planting them in Mars. The professionals review the characteristics of the coniferous that grow in slopes of the highest mountain of Mexico, the Tip of Orizaba (5,647 meters of height), in as adverse conditions as the cold and the lack of oxygen, according to the informed thing by chain Cnn. The investigation within the framework began five years ago of the denominated project "Terraformación of the Mars planet", in which they participate expert in the NASA and the public universities National Independent of Mexico (UNAM) and Veracruzana, in Veracruz (Gulf of Mexico).

Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort has passed the test of its first full quarter of operation.

"We set out to create a 'wow' experience and we've achieved that. People are coming to visit, they're seeing the shows, they're having dinner, they're spending the night and most importantly, they're genuinely enjoying themselves," said Larry L. Lewin, President of Niagara Casinos.
Fallsview has achieved some remarkable successes in its short history:
- The two casinos combined paid out $30 million more in payroll and benefits and $5 million more for goods and services in the second quarter of 2004 than Casino Niagara did on its own in the same quarter in 2003.

A week after the election, some local gambling tribes say they might wait for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to leave Sacramento before they negotiate new deals to share their revenue with the state.

The Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino held its grand opening ceremonies this week for a new facility three times the size of the casino it replaced.

Online casino gambling has seen a recent surge in business in the past few years. It is one of if not the largest industry on the net and there are hundreds of online casinos to choose from.

Regulation boards and third party verification system have kept a lot of the online gambling on the net fairly clean but there will always be some casinos that try to burry certain charges without you knowing that you'll be charged for them. Therefore it is important to know what to look out for when trying out an online casino.