Prostitution Added to Gambling Age as Target for Las Vegas Taxes
Taxes from casino revenues are down, so Las Vegas leaders are considering several options, including lowering the legal gambling age and legalizing prostitution.
View ArticleDowntown Las Vegas Gambling on New Look
While his city burns, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman fiddles for more casino, gambling, and resort expansion.
View ArticleVegas Mayor Counters Obama Attack on Corporate Gambling Trips
The mayor of Las Vegas has objected to President Obama's criticism of corporate trips to the casino gambling city, saying business travel and conventions are an important part of the nation's economy.
View ArticleVegas Casino Gambling Returns to Roots to Fight Recession
The new M Resort opens this week with a shift in the thinking of Las Vegas casino gambling operators back to an older way of doing business.
View ArticleLas Vegas Casino Ownership May Shuffle
After years of consolidation, Las Vegas casino operators may be forced by the recession to sell off Strip gaming resorts to new owners.
View ArticleLas Vegas Casinos Make Peace with President Obama
While the mayor and the governor grumbled, President Obama used his star power to win back casino and gaming workers upset with remarks he had made about Las Vegas.
View ArticleLas Vegas Gaming Operator Warned by Casino Regulators
Nevada casino gaming authorities told a Las Vegas gambling operator to tighten up or face penalties.
View ArticleFontainebleau Casino May Still Rise on Las Vegas Strip
The Fontainebleau Las Vegas Casino project, thought as dead as could be last week, may rise from the ashes like a phoenix, as a new lender is reportedly involved.
View ArticleLas Vegas Too Big a Gambling Proposal for National Hockey League
NHL leaders seem tempted but afraid to take the step to place a new hockey team in Las Vegas, the casino gambling and entertainment center of the US.
View ArticleCasino Stock Recovery Not Sustaining
Las Vegas casinos seemed to be on the upswing for investors, but now may be in more of a holding pattern.
View ArticleAnother NBA Star Struggles with Casino Gambling Debts
Ex-NBA player Antoine Walker is facing felony charges after not honoring gambling markers extended him by three Las Vegas casinos.
View ArticleGambling Analyst Says Vegas Casino Boom Not Returning
Potential investors trying to catch gambling stocks on the bounce may be in for a long wait, as a gaming analyst says casinos in Las Vegas can't expect a rapid recovery.
View ArticleCramer Reverses Self on Casino Stocks
CNBC financial personality Jim Cramer, who has warned against expecting any bounceback from the recession by Las Vegas casino operators, said Macau plans may lift Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts.
View ArticleLas Vegas Casino Mogul Bob Stupak Dies
Bob Stupak, who brought Las Vegas the Vegas World and Stratosphere Casinos, died this week after a life of helping shape the gambling town.
View ArticleSports Betting Shifting from Land to Online Casinos
There is a bay shift occurring in the nature of sports betting, as players desert land sports books for online casinos.
View ArticleNFL OKs Las Vegas TV Ads, if Casinos and Gambling Left Out
The NFL says it's perfectly fine with ads for Las Vegas on television broadcasts of its games, as long as the ads don't feature casinos, gambling, betting, blackjack, slots, poker, or hookers....well,...
View ArticleLas Vegas Supply Continues to Outpace Demand as Casinos Expand
CityCenter's opening and expansion by Planet Hollywood and the Hard Rock bring more rooms to fill and gambling space to run to a Las Vegas already saturated with casino and resort space.
View ArticleLas Vegas' Phil Ruffin Says Regulated Online Casinos Coming
Casino mogul Phil Ruffin says online casinos and Internet gambling will be regulated by the US within the next decade.
View ArticleLas Vegas Sands Casinos Prosper in Macau While Las Vegas Suffers
The Las Vegas Sands casino empire is shifting its revenue base to Macau as the gambling region dominated Las Vegas income by about four to one.
View ArticleMacau Surpasses Las Vegas as Wynn Opens Casino, May Move Base
The potential move of the Wynn Resorts casino headquarters from Las Vegas to Macau may cement the Asian gambling region as the world's gaming capitol.
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