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Casino plans sprout in US as states seek revenue
This Oct. 28, 2011 file photo shows the front entrance of the Resorts World Casino on the day of its official opening as New York City's first casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack, in Jamaica in the Queens borough of New York. A Malaysian company’s plan to build a $4 billion convention center and big-time casino at Aqueduct could be the biggest shot fired yet in a tourism arms race that has seen a ...
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No say for some who would be casinos' neighbors
Mike McCarthy lives close enough to a Gillette Stadium parking lot to smell the hibachi grills on game day. He doesn't mind Sunday tailgaters a few hundred feet from his house, but draws the line at a billion-dollar casino. But though he lives closer than almost anyone to the planned site of a Wynn Resorts casino, he won't be allowed to vote in any local referendum if the project makes it to a ...
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Bostonians place bets on new casino as City Council forms committee
Boston City Council’s Economic Development & Planning Committee will oversee expanded gambling in the city after Council President Stephen Murphy canceled his plan to form an entirely new committee on gaming. Vice Chair of the economic committee Councilor Matt O’Malley, of Jamaica Plain, said the move makes sense. He said it is important to have [...]
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Residents to NYPD: Add cops to 106th
While petty crime has jumped in the 106th Precinct since the casino opened in South Ozone Park, legislators and civic leaders say they don’t blame the gambling site but instead are pointing their fing
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