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Maryland gambling commission relaxes limits on lending, ATMs
Maryland's casinos will be allowed to open 24 hours a day under new regulations approved Thursday by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission that also relaxed limits on ATMs and lending to gamblers in the facilities. With the advent of full-...Tags: Prince George's County, Cordish Cos., Lifestyle and Leisure, Politics, Elections
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Play only for fun
Many people buy Powerball tickets when the jackpot gets into the hundreds of millions, but they must remember to play responsibly. With Wednesday's Powerball having an estimated worth of $425 million for the annuity or $278.3 million for the cash payoff,...Tags: Powerball Lottery, Lotteries, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Many look to cash in on expanding Maryland casinos
Dorsey Nicola was shaking the dice and staring down the green felt, where chips were stacked like miniature skyscrapers and multiplying. The craps table was hot last week as a half-dozen students lined the perimeter and Nicola kept throwing sixes. The...
Tags: Electronics, Annapolis, Students, Native American Gaming Management, Colleges and Universities
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Winners and losers: Chicago-area casinos 20 years later
TribLocal - Schaumburg ยป NewsThe first suburban Chicago casino opened 20 years ago this month, bringing with it hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in taxes, but also …... -
Some concerned about problem gambling funding
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA possible change in allocations of state owned casino revenue raises concerns in Dodge City. Right now, state law requires two percent of gambling revenue to be go into a problem gambling fund. The fund helps raise awareness, provides treatment and...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Lifestyle and Leisure, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Preckwinkle tweaks budget to win votes
Tribune reporterCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is making compromises on new taxes she’s proposed as she tries to lock up the votes needed to pass next year’s budget. On Tuesday, Preckwinkle announced a tweak to her initial proposal to charge an...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Cook County Government, Illinois Governor, Dining and Drinking, Cook County Board of Commissioners
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Md. better off with table games
Voting "Yes" on Question 7 to legalize table games such as poker in a few well-chosen casinos will be doing a favor for all residents of Maryland. Gov. Martin O'Malley has promised publicly on television that tax proceeds from such games will be spent...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Martin O'Malley, Gambling
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Expanded gambling: pathway to jobs or wrong-way street?
Second of three articles about state ballot questions Ambrose "Bo" Vogt, a union construction worker from Pasadena, believes the effort to expand gambling in Maryland would create jobs in a field in which work has been scarce. But Tamara Davis Brown, an...
Tags: Lotteries, Entertainment, Montgomery County (Maryland), Montgomery County (Virginia), Casino and Gambling Industry
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American Casino Guide instructionals cross 1 million Youtube viewers
Steve Bourie, author of "American Casino Guide," said his Youtube channel www.youtube.com/americancasinoguide recently surpassed the one million views mark. Bourie, who hosts the educational "how to gamble" videos, says the most popular video is titled...Tags: Social Media, Video Supplies and Services, YouTube, Lifestyle and Leisure, Photography and Video
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University of Maryland launches problem gambling center
As the state is poised to add several new casinos and possibly table games such as poker, the University of Maryland School of Medicine said Thursday that it would create a center aimed at training thousands of health professionals to help gambling...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Psychiatry, Culture, High Blood Pressure
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Md.'s controversial gambling exclusion program gains ground
On June 24, 2011, a middle-aged Harford County woman drove to the Hollywood Casino in Perryville to give authorities permission to arrest her for trespassing if she ever set foot again in one of Maryland's casinos. Before she signed the paperwork she...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Prince George's County, Demographics, Harford County, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Penn National to oppose gambling expansion referendum
Penn National Gaming will put its considerable resources behind a campaign to defeat gambling expansion, and is starting the effort Thursday with an "open letter" to Marylanders explaining their position. "We love it here and we're proud of our role...Tags: Companies and Corporations, MGM Resorts International, Entertainment, Casino and Gambling Industry, Rushern Baker
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