Cleveland will be the first Ohio city to open its casino. The Horseshoe Casino is slated to open in early 2012 in the Higbee Building at Tower City Center. This is a temporary site while the permanent casino site is being built just to the south of Tower City Center. ... Read More
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Feb2011
The city of Lorain recently approved operating rules for its Internet cafes. One of the provisions prohibited serving alcohol. City Council is now considering the removal of that restriction so that veterans groups and ethnic clubs could use sweepstakes machines to help raise money. The Lorain Law Department has stated ... Read More
February 5, 2011ogadmin
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Jan2011
In May 2010, the Summit County Council passed an ordinance intended to regulate skill game arcades, Internet cafes and sweepstakes parlors in the county’s nine townships. The constitutionality of the legislation was challenged in court. A Common Pleas judge has ruled that the ordinance is constitutional and can be enforced, with ... Read More
January 14, 2011ogadmin
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Dec2010
That is the name that Penn National is calling Columbus officials following the latest volley over annexation. Mayor Coleman asked City Council to remove the casino site from a 2003 city sewer contract with Franklin County. City Council approved unanimously. Franklin County commissioners then followed suit. In exchange for the ... Read More
December 29, 2010ogadmin
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Dec2010
The city of Lorain has decided it needs more time to study proposed regulations for Internet sweepstakes cafes. A two-hour meeting resulted in a split decision so the proposed regulations will be sent back to the mayor to pass along to the city law director for further review.
Meanwhile, the whole ... Read More
December 29, 2010ogadmin
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Dec2010
As expected, the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate rejected Governor Strickland’s seven appointees to the newly formed Ohio Casino Control Commission. Democrats have argued that this will result in long delays over the opening and operation of Ohio’s four casinos.
December 29, 2010ogadmin
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Dec2010
As we wind down 2010, there are several unanswered questions regarding gambling and the casinos. Most likely we will have to wait on the new administration for any resolutions.
Casinos
Despite the concern over possible delays in getting Ohio’s casinos up and running, it appears confirmation of the members of the Casino ... Read More
December 8, 2010ogadmin
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Oct2010
The Commission met for the first time this week. By law, the casino rules must be final by March 10, 2011. That means the Commission must have its work complete by January 11, 2011, to allow a legislative panel, which would have the final say, to do its review.
October 28, 2010ogadmin
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Oct2010
The waters just became murkier in northeast Ohio. Two weeks after proposing tough new regulations, Cleveland City Council has placed a moratorium that bans these sweepstakes cafes from opening within the city.
The change was triggered by a police raid on the Cyber House. Cleveland police reported that the games being ... Read More
October 28, 2010ogadmin
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Oct2010
A lot has happened since the governor’s appointment of the seven members to the Ohio Casino Control Commission just two weeks ago. Governor Ted Strickland was required to make his appointments to the commission by October 10; however, the Senate will have the ultimate say in confirming those appointments.
Strickland appointed ... Read More
October 22, 2010ogadmin