Las Vegas Mayor Carol Goodman wants her town's casinos to re-open as soon as possible and is willing to use casino workers and guests as subjects in a mass epidemiology experiment to do so. Goodman aired her unusual ideas yesterday in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that's garnered plenty of attention for the heretofore…
Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox has an ambitious plan for getting his company's Las Vegas casinos back in business by the middle of May. Maddox's post-COVID-19 lockdown Wynn will look a lot different from any casino Vegas has ever seen and may present a few challenges for the security-minded business. And even his most timid…
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is calling on her state's governor to re-open the casinos and put her city back to work. Las Vegas, America's long-time gambling capitol, has been under a 30-day shutdown order that ends on April 30 (though that date could easily be extended). Goodman, a political independent, is joining a growing…
Caesars Entertainment is furloughing approximately 90 percent of its workforce as the corona virus crisis keeps the world's casinos shuttered. It's a brutal blow for the furloughed staff and had to be an extraordinarily difficult decision for company officials to make. But that, unfortunately, seems to be the reality of life in 2020. News of…
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak has ordered all of his state's non-essential businesses, including casinos, to close for at least 30 days in an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This extreme, but essential action, shows exactly how seriously state and federal authorities are taking the growing worldwide pandemic. After all, before this…
When the NBA decided to suspend its season in an effort to control the rapidly spreading coronavirus the economic impact of that decision was felt immediately from everyone from the person selling popcorn at the arena where games are played, right up to the betting window at your local sportsbook. The fact of the matter…
As the coronavirus, aka COVID19, spreads around the globes, it's a near certainty that the casino industry will feel a significant impact. That's already happened in Macau, where casino revenues were battered by a 15-day coronavirus-related shutdown. The bad news is continuing as Las Vegas casino stocks are taking a beating over concerns that both…
Should tribal gaming interests have an exclusive lock on sports betting and online gambling in Connecticut? That's a question that Connecticut lawmakers and the Mohegan tribe are hashing out in a battle that's questioned the once unquestionable exclusivity of the Mohegan's gambling domain in the state. At the core of the issue is the question…
Regulated sports betting in the United States is an increasingly attractive option for state governments that are looking to boost their tax revenues. That idea seems to be working in places like New Jersey, but that's definitely not the case in Oregon. For the fiscal year ending June 30 Scoreboard, the state's regulated sports betting…
Colorado is quickly putting the pieces in place to begin offering regulated sports betting to its citizens as soon as May 1, according to an article recently published on Legal Sports Report. Centennial State lawmakers have already issued seven sports betting licenses to operators and more are expected in the future. In short, the tide…
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