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  • Bet on West Virginia 25 Nov 2009 16:33 GMT
    ... too late for lawmakers to bet on West Virginia and learn that we can compete and ... compete and win. Debating the differences between gambling on electronic games and real ones won’t ... the plan – passed unanimously in the Senate -- to start to make our taxes ...

  • Senate Passes Table Games Bill 25 Nov 2009 17:19 GMT
    ... by Juliet A. Terry CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Senate moved the table games bill even ... do,” Kessler said. “… We’re not expanding gambling by letting the folks in those counties ... of the bill, it could be on Gov. Joe Manchin’s desk by the end of ...

  • Senate Judiciary Passes Table Games Bill 25 Nov 2009 17:03 GMT
    ... by Juliet A. Terry CHARLESTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a new version of ... Judiciary bill would provide more money to West Virginia cities and counties and racetrack employee pensions ... my area are against the expansion of gambling. And third, I think it’s the wrong ...

  • Senate Returns Table Games to 35 Percent Tax Rate 25 Nov 2009 17:19 GMT
    ... by Juliet A. Terry CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Senate changed the so-called table games bill ... the bill authorizes an unconstitutional expansion of gambling. As it exists now, HB2718 allows residents ... of the bill, it could be on Gov. Joe Manchin’s desk by the end of ...

  • Gambling Not For The Buckeye State, Strickland Says 25 Nov 2009 17:51 GMT
    ... Story by Jerry Echemann OHIO -- Despite West Virginia and Pennsylvania's choice to allow gambling, Ohio's Governor-elect Ted Strickland said it's not in the best interest for the Buckeye State. Strickland ...

  • Table Games Recount Set for Aug. 29 25 Nov 2009 17:21 GMT
    ... Lanes to begin offering table games. The West Virginia Council of Churches gave Cooper the $300 ... be the beginning of the end of gambling in West Virginia," said Jeremiah Dys, executive ... a statewide force that hopes to convince lawmakers to rid West Virginia of gambling. In ...

  • Elections 2006: Trail Mix 25 Nov 2009 17:37 GMT
    ... last days to keep it that way.” Gambling isn’t popular in West Virginia’s 9th Senate ... of the last campaign finance reporting period. West Virginia Republican Party Chairman Doug McKinney is a ... he did get an e-mail from the governor: “Dear Mr. Doug McKinney, Thank you very ...

  • House Passes Table Games Bill 25 Nov 2009 17:03 GMT
    ... Delegates vote 55-42 to send HB2718 to Senate. Story by Juliet A. Terry CHARLESTON -- ... games will increase the incidence of problem gambling in West Virginia, the delegates voted by a margin of ...

  • Going Forward, Let's Leave Mini-Casinos Behind 25 Nov 2009 17:18 GMT
    ... Virginians are making up their minds about gambling. Ohio County said yes to table games ... and supermarkets. Gambling is pervasive today in West Virginia. The Lottery Commission, through its various games, ... Jones said he intends to encourage the governor in a couple of years to phase ...

  • Wheeling Island Gaming Sees Drop In Credit Rating 25 Nov 2009 16:17 GMT
    ... of 350 workers once Pennsylvania begins its gambling industry, a new financial frontier that will ... many ripple effects we've expected since the (West Virginia) Legislature failed to pass the county-option voting ... a year now." Since Pennsylvania lawmakers approved Gov. Ed Rendell's 61,000-machine slots bill more than ...

  • G'burg gaming back on table 26 Nov 2009 06:30 GMT
    ... trying to convince the Legislature and the governor," he said. "If they need the revenue, ... the populations of northern Maryland, northern Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. - as well as ... who objected to the idea of a gambling facility so close to the Gettysburg Battlefield, ...

  • Public Speaks Out on Table Games 25 Nov 2009 17:19 GMT
    ... walks of life and all parts of West Virginia spoke for and against the table games ... employees and even the father of a gambling addict. “My son is a gambling addict,” ... to vote for everybody,” Sparks said. The Senate passed table games legislation two years ago, ...

  • Wheeling City Council Supports Table Gaming Vote 25 Nov 2009 17:15 GMT
    ... "I don't want our brand to be gambling town. We're known as the Friendly City. ... shore up police and fire pension funds. Mayor Nick Sparachane says, "It's part of what's ... city work with the end result. And West Virginia House Speaker Bob Kiss said tonight if ...

  • Legislative Week in Review with Chris Stirewalt. 25 Nov 2009 17:03 GMT
    ... an Open for Business sob story In gambling, the saying goes that the house always ... it would build its eastern headquarters in West Virginia. If Chesapeake pulls up stakes, the state’s ... directly, they could still show that the Governor is listening. The bad news for Chesapeake ...

  • Legislative Week in Review 25 Nov 2009 17:03 GMT
    ... Updated Saturday, January 27, 2007; 08:59 AM West Virginia Media Political Editor Chris Stirewalt previews the ... this was also the week that the Governor gave the bad news -- the legislative ... when the drama starts to unfold. The gambling industry has said friendly lawmakers will be ...


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