Key Topic:
Gambling
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Legislators decided to pay $400,000 to a New Jersey company, Spectrum Gaming Group, for a term paper to determine the efficacy of expanded gambling.
Tampa Bay TimesThe Florida Senate passed a proposal that would outlaw the euphemistically named strip-mall casinos that suck in patrons with virtual slot machines.
Orlando SentinelThe state House of Representatives fast-tracked legislation that would render inviable the cafés’ current business model.
Citrus County ChronicleLegislators and other state leaders should examine the gaps that allowed this scandal to unfold and initiate reforms to guard against such corruption.
Florida Times-UnionEthics reform and Internet cafes suddenly have our lawmakers' undivided attention, which is good.
Lakeland LedgerSurely this story about gaming and the veterans organization and others may expand as prosecutions gear up.
Naples Daily NewsThey've been called "strip mall casinos," a description that captures the reason that communities haven't exactly embraced their expansion.
Lakeland LedgerThe fact is, that Internet cafes are in reality gambling establishments, and that they must be controlled
Fort Myers News-Press Lawmakers are going to wipe out the cafes — or even push them underground — as part of a knee-jerk response to save their political skins.
Panama City News HeraldThe investigation that triggered the resignation of Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll should also drive efforts to put an end to so-called Internet cafes.
Daytona Beach News-JournalAfter last week's scandal costing Jennifer Carroll her job it is now time for the Legislature to put an end to Internet cafes.
Orlando SentinelIt’s time that the state found a way to regulate these Internet cafes — or, better yet, shut them down.
Tallahassee DemocratInternet cafes have been able to proliferate by taking advantage of a gray area in state law that allows simulated slot machines.
Gainesville SunFlorida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigned thanks to her ties to a gambling company whose interests she promoted while a state representative.
Tampa TribuneNow that a racketeering investigation has led the lieutenant governor to resign, leadership appears to have coalesced around banning Internet cafes.
Tampa Bay TimesBusiness and city government leaders are going to Tallahassee to ask for a pilot program for slot machines at the Naples Fort Myers Greyhound Track.
Naples Daily NewsFlorida Legislature probably will commission a study on gambling and the benefits and disadvantages of allowing “destination resort.”
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Letter To The Editor
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Fort Meade Leader
Destination resorts, the preferred phrase for those of us who support casinos, is dead for this legislative session after the House voted down the...
Biz Pac Review
In the larger context of what the destination-resort legislation could do for Florida, consider the economic enhancement and gaming reform that...
Orlando Sentinel
The only people that are really going to benefit from gambling in our county are the people who have promoted it. The church people here in...
Havana Herald
There are some words of wisdom which were written more than 2,000 years ago in the Bible in Galatians 6:7. "Do not be deceived; God is not...
Lakeland Ledger
Op Ed
That end-run lawmakers tried making around the people of Florida earlier this year didn't succeed, thankfully. But we must be on guard to make...
Orlando Sentinel
Florida should get what it bargained for — legitimate racing and the real jobs our communities deserves.
TCPalm
In a state full of pain pill candy stores, sinkhole scam artists and fake car wreck actors, some of our Legislators think we really need to be...
Hernando Today
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St. Augustine Record
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