Massachusetts News - Page 30

News Brief: A group of Massachusetts mayors and labor leaders kicked off a lobbying effort today to push for casino gambling in the Bay State, saying it would generate tens of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue.

News Brief: The 18-town coalition studying casino impacts is still not prepared to object to the billion-dollar Mashpee Wampanoag project in Middleboro, Massachusetts.

News Brief: Governor Deval Patrick is drawing a mixed reaction in the region as he looks to municipal leaders statewide to build support for his casino plan.

News Brief: Planning for a proposed Middleboro casino has ground to a halt and selectmen have called an emergency meeting for Saturday to resolve the problem.

News Brief: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is opposing an application by an indian tribe to build a $1 billion casino in the eastern part of the state.

News Brief: The latest challenge to Indian sovereign land could not only jeopardize the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's proposed casino in Middleboro, but Indian territory across the nation.

News Brief: Gov. Deval L. Patrick warned yesterday that inaction on his pending legislation to create three resort casinos could result in the establishment of an Indian gaming casino in Middleboro with no revenue stream to the state.

News Brief: In the town's host agreement for a casino with the Mashpee Wampanoags, the town must actively help the tribe, and this concerns some local officials who last week again denied Middleboro a seat on the Regional Task Force on Casino Impacts.

News Brief: Massachusett's Gov. Deval Patrick unveiled a spending plan that matches dollar for dollar last year's state allocation to cities and towns - with one catch: The Legislature has to sign off on his plan to include gambling money in the budget.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. didn't need to obtain a gaming license from state regulators to open the $1.9 billion Palazzo this month.

News Brief: In a challenge to lawmakers to accept his plans to expand gambling, Governor Deval L. Patrick will propose using $124 million of the $300 million that he said could be generated from casino licensing fees to cover a local aid shortfall.

News Brief: Fees reported by lobbyists representing Massachusetts gambling interests skyrocketed to $1.2 million in 2007, a flood of money that is expected to continue rising in 2008 as the Beacon Hill debate continues to heat up.

News Brief: Steve Wynn has expressed interest for a possible casino deal in response to Governor Deval Patrick's proposal to legalize gambling in Massachusetts.

News Brief: Governor Deval Patrick is considering including projected casino licensing revenues in his budget proposal for the next fiscal year, a risky political maneuver designed to increase pressure on the House to approve his plan for three resort casinos in the state.

News Brief: The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce board of directors has taken a position against casino gaming in Massachusetts, saying that gambling facilities could exacerbate an already severe labor shortage on the Cape.

News brief: Top casino industry executives say they can't see why state lawmakers are taking so long to act on a bill legalizing casino gambling in Massachusetts.

News Brief: Casino executives from the across the country are expected to converge on the Statehouse Dec. 18, when a legislative committee will hold the first major hearing on Gov. Deval Patrick's proposal to license three casinos.

News Brief: Bolton, Massachusetts, town advisory committee chairman thinks the arrival of a Keno operation in a local restaurant will hurt low-income residents.

News Brief: Gov. Deval L. Patrick defended his three-casino plan by saying it would not taint the state’s character.

News Brief: Business mogul Donald Trump is scouring waterfronts, depressed mill towns, and vacant rural tracts across Massachusetts, searching for locations suitable for a lavish resort casino.