Rhode Island News - Page 16

News Brief: The City Council tonight will consider a resolution opposing a casino in West Warwick as potentially damaging to local businesses and the well-being of residents.

News Brief: Harrah’s has offered to pay the Rhode Island $100 million for the license to own and operate the state’s first 24-hour casino.

News Brief: The owners of Lincoln Park and Newport Grand have attacked the validity of a recent casino study and have accused the study’s author of significantly playing down potential losses in their own video-slot business.

News Brief: South African gambling magnate Saul Kerzner and his BLB investor group will set up shop minutes from the Massachusetts border after emerging the victor in bidding for Rhode Island's Lincoln Park dog track.

News Brief: A study prepared for the Senate Democratic leadership suggests the casino the Narragansett Indians are seeking to build, with backing from Harrah's Entertainment, could bring in $127.5 million.

News Brief: A poll conducted by Lincoln Park shows that nine out of 10 of its bettors would bolt to a resort casino if one were built in West Warwick, Rhode Island.

News Brief: State lawmakers are questioning why Rhode Island is giving its first-and-only casino license away for free.

News Brief: Rhode Island’s Lincoln Park could morph into a Las Vegas-style casino under plans laid out by a pair of high-powered gambling empires competing to buy the racing venue.

News Brief: The Middletown Town Council passed a strongly worded resolution last night opposing the expansion of casino gambling in the state, and opposing efforts to put the question to voters in November.

News Brief: The Newport County Chamber of Commerce and the Preservation Society of Newport County have joined the chorus of opposition from within the tourism industry to opening a casino in Rhode Island.

News Brief: Not a single vote has yet been taken this legislative session regarding gambling, but interested parties have already opened their checkbooks, buying billboards, radio ad newspaper ads and mailing information to lawmakers and business leaders.

News Brief: The $600-million casino proposed by the Narragansett Indian Tribe would be superlative, according to new renderings and figures from the tribe's financial backer, Harrah's Entertainment.

News Brief: The prospect of a new ownership and expansion at Lincoln Park and the proposal to build a West Warwick casino have raised concerns about the state's oversight of gambling.

News Brief: With gambling becoming an ever-increasing enterprise in Rhode Island, and with the prospect of a Foxwoods-style resort casino on the horizon, Attorney General Patrick Lynch wants to tighten up the way the state regulates the gaming industry.

News Brief: Stopping just short of calling each other liars, the players on two sides of the debate over a proposed Narragansett Indian casino in West Warwick are accusing each other of manipulating statistics and making misleading claims.

News Brief: Harrah's Entertainment this week pledged to give the town $75,000 more, in a lump sum, to pay for various casino-impact studies and related legal services.

News Brief: Promising thousands of new jobs and millions in new state revenue, the Narragansett Indian Tribe and Harrah's Entertainment have announced plans for building a $500-million resort casino for West Warwick, Rhode Island.

News Brief: Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas condemns Governor Carcieri’s call for the Narragansett Indian Tribe’s proposed casino to hand over the same percentage of slot machine taxes paid by Lincoln Park and Newport Grand.

News Brief: Rhode Island’s Governor Carcieri is putting forward two pieces of legislation that would act to keep a casino at bay.

News Brief: Rhode Island remains first in the nation in per-capita spending on gambling, according to a new report.