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Shortly before the Illinois Gaming Board rejected the city’s second bid to put a casino on 30 acres at Fountain Square of Waukegan in 2008, then-Mayor Richard Hyde said if the plan failed, “our Plan B is to put that land up for sale, and we’ll probably get twice as much as we paid for it.”

Station Casinos Inc. of Las Vegas has settled with a second group of creditors that had been fighting its bankruptcy reorganization plan, likely keeping the plan on track for approval next week.

Atlantic City Weekly (blog)
Editorial: High-stakes game
Philadelphia Inquirer
Christie’s plan to cut off future funding and reinvest these revenues exclusively in the New Jersey casino town may seem like a raw deal. …
Kelly: Christie’s reform proposals might be too late for desperate Atlantic CityNorthJersey.com
Democrats push back against Christie plan during Atlantic City gaming summitPress of Atlantic City
Casino executive urges N.J. legislators not to permit gambling beyond Atlantic …newjerseynewsroom.com
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com

Capay Valley residents debate casino highway project
Sacramento Bee
A proposed expansion at Cache Creek Casino Resort and a plan to widen and straighten the rural state highway that connects the Capay …

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HOLYOKE – In Gettysburg, Pa., these days, critics rage that Joseph A. Lashinger Jr. risks trampling on sacred ground with a plan to put a casino near the site of 51,000 Civil War casualties.

DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)
Culver solicited second casino group
DesMoinesRegister.com
Chet Culver personally solicited political contributions from two of the four groups that applied for casino licenses in 2009, but received money from only …
State budget plan gets mixed reviewWaterloo Cedar Falls Courier

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Trump Entertainment’s New Owners Plan to Sell Casino
BusinessWeek
July 14 (Bloomberg) — Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., the bankrupt Atlantic City casino company, is in talks to sell the Trump Marina Hotel Casino, …
New owners approved for 3 Trump casinos in ACThe Associated Press
Trump plan prevails for AC casinosPhiladelphia Inquirer

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I support the proposed Mason-Dixon Resort and Casino. Why? Jobs, jobs, jobs, better paying jobs … with benefits – like a health-care plan, a dental plan and disability and life insurance. Jobs that are desperately needed here in Adams County.

DETROIT—-The Board of Directors of Greektown Superholdings, Inc., announced today that Greektown Holdings, L.L.C. and its subsidiaries, which operate Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit have emerged from bankruptcy and that the Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization that was confirmed in January 2010 became effective today.

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Mass. Senate balks at GOP tax plan in casino bill
BusinessWeek
The Massachusetts Senate rejected a Republican-backed plan Tuesday that would have dumped all future casino revenues into a tax relief fund …
Casino amendments in the cardsWorcester Telegram
Smoking issue stymies casino billMassLive.com
Mass. Senate balks at GOP tax plan in casino billBoston Herald
Boston Globe

The Massachusetts Senate unveiled their plan for expanded gambling this week, and slot machines at racetracks was not a part of the bill. Instead, the plan called for three casino resorts.

Rhode Island lawmakers have decided not to be left out in the cold in the race to full scale casino gambling in the Northeast. Legislators in the House and senate have both approved a plan for table games at two licensed slot casinos.

The Massachusetts Senate is unveiling their casino plan this week, and unlike the House plan, the Senate proposal will not allow slots at state racetracks.

The Lincoln Town Council has thrown it’s full support behind a plan to help Twin River become a full-scale casino.

Fall River Police endorse casino plan
Providence Eyewitness News
(WPRI) – Fall River officials plan to publically endorse the city’s plan to build a casino. The police and fire unions will publically endorse Mayor Will …

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Fall River officials plan to publically endorse the city’s plan to build a casino.

Al Bienstock was ready for a public grilling on a casino proposal. Facing his first major community issue as president of Hampden Twp. commissioners, he prepared a thick file of plan details to share with the crush of residents he was sure would appear at commissioners’ April 29 meeting.

When MGM Mirage and Dubai World partnered on the billion dollar CityCenter project in Las Vegas, the plan was to rejuvenate the gaming industry. Now, it appears that the gaming facility is in financial trouble.

Station Casinos is getting a little extra time as the exclusive company or group to draw up a reorganization plan in its $6.6 billion bankruptcy case.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Gregg Zive gave the Las Vegas casino company until mid July to exclusively put forth a plan on how to emerge from its debt.