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West Virginia track owners pour money into campaign

9 August 2007

News Brief: Owners of Tri-State Racetrack and Gaming Center can’t yet say how much they’ve spent on advertising for Saturday’s vote on table games.

Track owners fight history

31 July 2007

News Brief: Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming Center officials contend they should not be held accountable today for what happened two decades ago under different ownership.

Underage servers face job loss

26 July 2007

News Brief: About 100 under-21 employees at West Virginia's two Northern Panhandle racetracks faced prospects of losing their jobs later this year, through an unintended consequence of the new law allowing casino-style table games.

West Virginia months away from table games

26 July 2007

News Brief: It will be take four to six months before the West Virginia Lottery Commission will be ready to regulate table games at the state’s two Northern Panhandle racetracks, Lottery Director John Musgrave said Wednesday.

West Virginia table games gets the vote

3 July 2007

MTR Gaming Group, Inc. reports the passage on June 30th of the local referendum in Hancock County, WV, allowing the Company's Mountaineer Race Track & Gaming Resort in Chester, WV to add table games at its facility.

Table game foes go to court

19 June 2007

News Brief: A group that has fought plans to add table games to West Virginia's racetrack casinos said today it will ask a federal court to overturn a state law allowing four local elections on the issue.

W. Virginia counties vote for table games

11 June 2007

News Brief: Voters in West Virginia's Jefferson and Ohio counties have already determined if they will permit table games at their local gaming centers, and Hancock County voters will decide later this month.

West Virignia casino debate continues

11 June 2007

News Brief: Jefferson County's casino table games referendum is over, but the level of debate stayed high Sunday as a Charles Town Races & Slots official lashed out at opponents.

West Virignia casino stick with live dealers

5 June 2007

News Brief: Executives of the West Virginia tracks say they're not interested in games with virtual dealers.

Another W. Virginia table gaming bill unlikely

31 May 2007

News Brief: Jefferson County, West Virginia, voters hoping to get a bigger share of table games revenue by holding out for a different bill from the state Legislature could be disappointed.

West Virginia gambling donations up

28 May 2007

News Brief: Gaming interests made more political donations during the 2006 election cycle than ever before, according to an analysis released Friday by the West Virginia People’s Election Reform Coalition.

West Virginia table game votes jeopardized

16 May 2007

News Brief: Kanawha and Hancock counties failed to satisfy a requirement to advertise a special election to decide table games at least 30 days before the balloting, the secretary of state’s office confirmed Tuesday.

West Virginia casino vote approved

4 April 2007

News Brief: The Ohio County Commission on Tuesday approved the ballot for the June 9 special election that will determine if Wheeling Island Racetrack and Gaming Center will be permitted to have table gambling.

West Virginia table gaming referendum bill signed

22 March 2007

MTR Gaming Group, Inc. reports that Governor Joe Manchin signed a bill providing for local referenda by which each of the four West Virginia counties having racetracks may authorize table gaming at that county's racetrack.

West Virginia table gambling bill passes

8 March 2007

ews Brief: Legislation that would allow county votes on table gambling at West Virginia’s four racetracks is now awaiting Gov. Joe Manchin’s signature.

West Virginia senate approves table gambling

6 March 2007

News Brief: The West Virginia Senate today approved table gambling legislation by a vote of 20 to 13.

West Virginia tracks tax may rise

2 March 2007

News Brief: West Virginia’s racetracks would pay an additional 1 percent of net profits for the privilege of offering table gambling under legislation passed Thursday out of the Senate Finance Committee.

WV table gambling bill leaps ahead

23 February 2007

News Brief: The West Virginia table gambling legislation, House Bill 2718, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee by voice vote Thursday — but not before committee members altered how tax dollars from table gambling would be allocated.

W.V. gambling bill introduced

20 February 2007

News Brief: State senators are expected to take up a bill to legalize table games at West Virginia’s four racetracks this week, and industry lobbyists hope they will scale back what would be the nation’s highest tax rate for casino gambling.

W.V. expanded gambling bill moves ahead

16 February 2007

ews Brief: A bill to authorize local referendum elections on casino-style table games in the four counties with racetracks moved one step closer to passage in the House of Delegates Thursday.

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