Mississippi News - Page 58

News Brief: Mississippi House Speaker Pro Tem J.P. Compretta says that a special session could end without a compromise on casino leases, a measure linked to lawmakers' approval of moving casinos inland.

Harrah’s Entertainment provides an update on damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

News Brief: Mississippi’s inland casinos that avoided the destruction of Hurricane Katrina are reporting that their numbers are up since the disaster.

News Brief: Legislation allowing casinos on the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast to rebuild on land hit a snag Tuesday when Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jack Gordon stopped the bill's advance to the governor.

Mississippi lawmakers voted Monday to allow coastal casinos destroyed by Hurricane Katrina to be rebuilt on dry land rather than atop barges floating on the Gulf of Mexico.

News Brief: Varying concerns prompted Mississippi House members to vote differently on Friday's casino bill.

Nevada lawmakers launched a campaign Friday to support gaming companies seeking the government's help to rebuild casinos damaged or destroyed by Gulf Coast hurricanes.

Two major hurricanes that shut down almost two dozen casinos in Louisiana and Mississippi, along with the subsequent increase in gasoline prices, worked to depress the value of gaming stocks during September.

News Brief: The Mississippi House on Thursday night took the first step toward rebuilding the Katrina-ravaged Coast's economy, passing a bill in the Gaming Committee to allow casinos to rebuild onshore instead of floating over water.

News Brief: The Christian Action Commission of the Mississippi Baptist Convention is calling on Mississippi Baptists to oppose all measures that would benefit the gambling industry.

News Brief: While Mississippi is moving forward on a proposal to allow the floating casinos damaged by hurricanes to rebuild on land, Louisiana is starting to think about the same thing.

Rudi Schiffer gives the lowdown on the latest news from the resorts in Tunica, Mississippi.

News Brief: MGM Mirage, the parent company of Beau Rivage, has teamed with the American Red Cross in relief efforts.

News Brief: Religious leaders carried signs and shouted about the evils of gambling outside the Capitol on Tuesday as hordes of casino execs, Coast leaders and lobbyists courted lawmakers inside.

News Brief: Free bus rides are available for frontline casino workers who would like to go to the Capitol in Jackson to push for a Mississippi law change to allow shoreline-based gambling on the Coast.

News Brief: In a special session today, Governor Haley Barbour is asking Mississippi lawmakers to place casinos on land, but within sight of the water, almost a month after Hurricane Katrina ripped the tourist sites from their perches.

News Brief: Hurricane Katrina wiped out the University of Southern Mississippi's campus in Long Beach and wrecked much of the state's casino industry, but educators say that hasn't derailed their plans to offer gaming management courses this semester.

Mississippi business groups have formed an alliance to ask the State Legislature to allow reconstruction adjacent to the waters edge.

Agency-of-Record hawkeye | FFWD of Dallas, Texas, and client Hollywood Casino of Tunica, Missisippi, were big winners at the Fifth Annual American Gaming Association Communications Awards show.

Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. report the appointment of Jose Oakley as vice president and general manager of the company's Isle of Capri-Lula, Mississippi.