Pennsylvania News - Page 93

News Brief: A vote indicating apparently unanimous opposition in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to a casino near the Gettysburg battlefield caught the casino"s promoters

News Brief: The Pennsylvania House backed an effort to stop a Gettysburg-area slots parlor Tuesday night, approving an amendment to the 2004 slots law that would ban any stand-alone casinos in Adams County.

News Brief: A new study emphasizes that Seven Springs Mountain Resort"s plans for a 500 slot-machine casino would cater mostly to existing clientele and would not radically transfo

News Brief: If you're at least 21 and living in Allegheny County, Harrah's is counting on you to lose $400 at its slot machines during the casino's first business year.

News Brief: Chester County residents still have many questions about a Boyd Gaming Corp and its effect on the local community.

News Brief: A group supporting efforts to bring a casino to Adams County has called a preservation group’s statements against the gaming facility ‘deliberately misleading.’

News Brief: The $350 million casino planned for the Delaware River waterfront in South Philadelphia that would be operated by the tribe behind Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort Casino would generate 954 jobs and $29.2 million in tax revenue for the city.

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has extended the registration deadline for the hearings to Friday, March 17, 2006.

Senator Tomlinson, an architect of the Pennsylvania gaming act, will be a featured speaker at the 2nd annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress on March 6-7.

News Brief: State gambling regulators issued their first licenses of any kind Tuesday -- to six companies that can manufacture slot machines to be sold in the state.

News Brief: A New Jersey developer with plans to build a casino in the Poconos urged local merchants and hotel owners Tuesday to support his bid, promising his project would generate nearly $400 million in direct economic activity.

News Brief: Rep. Paul Clymer hasn't stopped trying to pull the plug on Act 71 of 2004, the law that's set to bring 14 slots casinos to Pennsylvania.

News Brief: Competitors for the lone Pittsburgh slots license already are consulting nearby training centers, hoping to fill the thousands of expected job openings with a healthy share of locally groomed employees.

News Brief: Despite a healthy investment rating, an impressive acquisition of Caesars and the largest stable of casinos among the world's gaming firms, Harrah's is still being haunted by a New Orleans casino that never really lived up to its early promises.

News Brief: Casino operators vying for licenses to run slot parlors along Pennsylvania’s I-95 corridor are promising to pour money into city neighborhoods.

News Brief: Planet Hollywood's proposed casino on the riverfront would generate between $23 million and $60 million in gambling tax revenue for the federal, state and city governments in its first year, and generate at least 2,300 jobs, according to an economic-impact report made public yesterday.

News Brief: Still undecided on Aztar Corp.'s plans to build the Lehigh Valley Tropicana slots resort in Allentown, Mayor Ed Pawlowski is feeling the pressure.

News Brief: A union group announced recently casino investors have agreed to use union labor for the construction of a proposed casino, a decision local opposition group No Casino Gettysburg is criticizing.

News Brief: Anyone wishing to address the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board about a proposed slots parlor in the township has two weeks to register for the April 28 public input hearing.

News Brief: Faced with a competitor's pledge to provide $290 million for a new arena in Pittsburgh, Forest City Enterprises fired back yesterday, claiming its Station Square casino would generate the most tax revenue for the state and the city.