SOUTH SIOUX CITY– Gov. Pete Ricketts renewed his objections Friday to broaden gambling in Nebraska, alerting a proposed ballot measure to legislate gambling establishments would bump up the state’s social costs. “Gambling is bad for financial development. For each dollar you collect in tax revenues, you are spending three (dollars) in social services, whether it […]

A GIRLFRIEND who asked her partner to buy her a dress online ended up forking out 300 to fund his Issues in poker and gambling routines, a court heard. Connor Nash, 23, of Mulberry Way in Roundswell, appeared in front of North Devon magistrates last Friday where he pleaded guilty to 2 counts of scams by false […]

Boom or bust? Given our neighborhood s all-in wager on riverboat gambling and luxury online casino 25 years back, it would be appealing to define the experience so far in the winner-take-all terms familiar to most gamblers. However the truth is somewhere in between, as shown by our series analyzing the effect of a quarter century of […]