Over the past several months, a grassroots organization of obscure origin called the Wyoming Public Policy Center has been fighting tooth-and-nail in a campaign to defeat gambling regulations proposed in the state Legislature, employing experienced lobbyists and anonymously authored policy papers in efforts to influence policy
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The CEO of Virginia Beach, Virginia-based August Holding Corp. has founded a D.C.-based subsidiary company, Handle19 Inc., and plans to apply for a Class B sports wagering license under the District's legislation signed into law by Muriel Bowser early this year.
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New York finally passed laws to allow sports betting at land-based casinos in the state, which includes Native American casinos, but the Seneca Nation has not yet signed on.
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Whitmer is worried that if people are playing MIchigan online casino games, they won’t play state lottery games. Money from the MIchigan state lottery goes toward the School Aid Fund for K-12 schools.
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Ohio lawmakers are continuing to struggle with how to regulate the inevitable introduction of sports betting in the state. The competing bills in the Ohio House and Senate have one key difference – whether it’ll be regulated by the Ohio Casino Control Commission or the Ohio Lottery Commission.
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Maine’s sports betting sector could get the green light in the coming months after the state’s lawmakers gave the legislation the initial approval, passing the bill on to further procedural votes in both the House and Senate.
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Gambling-industry players set to cash in on the mothballed proposal — which would have allowed New Yorkers to place sports bets online from anywhere in the state via servers at the four upstate casinos — have been making massive political contributions since January 2018, a Post review of campaign finance records found.
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Many New Yorkers looking to make a legal mobile sports bet on football this fall will again have to cross the Hudson River into New Jersey to lay down their wager, after a bill to provide it stalled at the end of the year’s legislative session in Albany on Wednesday.
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Stories surfaced this week about a potential sportsbook inside Wrigley Field and Glenn wonders just how long it will be before fans can order a hot dog and a Sox-Cubs two team parlay inside the games' most historic stadium.
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Mobile sports betting is all but dead in New York, thanks to a stalemate among top Democrats in the state Assembly that is unlikely to be resolved before the legislative session ends, The Post has learned.
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The state legalized sports wagering in May and officials expect to have books open in August, according to The Courier. At an Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission hearing last week, a state regulator told commissioners that the casinos in the state are eager to begin betting for the upcoming NFL football season.
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The D.C. Lottery on Friday posted its proposed sports betting regulations and if there is any news, it is this: Betting on D.C. college teams or events, in the District or out, would be prohibited. Whether or not college sports could be bet on was not addressed in the law.
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