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State budget deficits, legislative logjams and time are taking their toll on El Paso, the 6th largest city in Texas. The state’s legislative session closes down in about two weeks leaving everything from infrastructure and programs for education, to gambling casinos operated by the native Tigua population in limbo, with no hope for a solution in sight.
Like most other cities and states currently experiencing severe financial woes, Nassau County—formerly considered as one of the richest counties in New York—believes that a “world-class sports-entertainment destination center”, which includes a casino, can be a reliable and effective source of revenue.
Casinos in Detroit expressed collective disappointment over the city mayor’s plans to raise gambling taxes from 10.9 percent to about three percent for each year.
Plans to revive Minneapolis’ Block E through the establishment of a state-run casino may encounter several serious problems
In an effort to attract new customers and gain back the old ones, new owners of the Resorts Casino are taking exhaustive measures to revive the first casino to open outside Nevada.
Amid the barely satisfactory overall performance of Northwest Indiana casino boats last month, East Chicago’s Ameristar Casino reflected better revenues compared to the April 2010 statistics.
In spite of revenues falling short of original projections, gambling analysts are saying that Maryland’s casinos manage to maintain a satisfactory performance.
A recent release on showed a 6.1 percent decline in gambling revenue in Deadwood for the month of March. The 6.1 percent drop to $8.5 million is just a continuation of a decline that started since January, which totaled $2 million by February.
After getting the approval of Ohio residents to build four gambling facilities in the state, problems on heavy government taxation have drawn negative sentiments and reactions from casino project developers.
Despite of the global recession that recently wreaked havoc to the US market, the casino industry of the scored a slight increase of its revenue in 2010, according to a survey conducted by the American Gaming Association (AGA).