Casino backers’ long-held dreams to build a gambling facility in Cedar Rapids stayed alive early Saturday after the Iowa Senate did not take up a five-year extension of a moratorium advanced by House lawmakers that would have blocked new casino licenses.
Also, in a video posted on YouTube, a union leader told members to prepare for protest activity, including rolling strikes, over legislation introduced in the Iowa Legislature.
The administrator of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission will resign after 20 years with the agency that regulates casinos and sports betting in Iowa.
The average of nearly $11 million a day in wagers represented a decline for both in-person casino and online sports betting.
Meantime, the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission director sympathized with a student-athlete charged with illegal betting, according to a new court document.
The CEO of U.S. Integrity says ‘bad actors’ must be caught and removed, but often improper or illegal sports bets by athletes are due to misunderstanding of rules and laws.
The CEO of a prominent, national sports betting integrity company says Iowa skipped some steps normally taken by other states that leaves blind spots, unanswered questions.
Land in the northwest quadrant near downtown will be earmarked for a potential casino for the next few years, should state regulators eventually award a license to operate a gaming facility in Linn County.
A swath of land in northwest Cedar Rapids near downtown may soon be earmarked for a potential casino, should a state panel ever award a license to operate a gaming facility here.
After Cedar Rapids’ casino dreams were thwarted by opponents earlier this year with a two-year moratorium on new gaming licenses, Linn County casino backers formed a political action committee ahead of November midterms and contributed about $50,000 to Iowa candidates.
Iowa collected a record amount last month on sports betting with the kickoff of the football season, despite fewer bets being placed compared to a year go.
Iowa gamblers placed a record amount of bets both online and in person on casino and sports games in the last fiscal year, with wagers topping $4 billion.
Members of Iowa’s Racing and Gaming Commission on Thursday said they were surprised and disappointed by the last-minute legislative moratorium on new casinos in Iowa.
When a two-year state moratorium on new casinos ends, local casino backers envision a complex with bars, restaurants and entertainment at the former Cooper’s Mill site. Here’s what’s in the Cedar Crossing proposal, shared exclusively with The Gazette.
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