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Cuomo presents a scaled-back casino plan
Governor Andrew Cuomo today called for three full-scale casinos in upstate New York, an apparent scaling-down of his gambling ambitions for New York State. More
'Tremendous ride': Table games or no, Resorts World and its backers celebrate like big winners
As it turns out, Phillip Goldfeder, an assemblyman from Rockaway, and Resorts World Casino, an operation owned by a Malaysian many-billion-dollar, multinational gambling conglomerate named Genting Group, have a lot in common. More
Andrew Cuomo's committee outraises Obama's super PAC
As part of his newfound engagement on behalf of President Obama's re-election effort, former president Bill Clinton is reportedly set to help raise money for Priorities USA Action, the pro-Obama super PAC that's so far struggled to excite wealthy liberal donors.
They might want to ask Andrew Cuomo too.
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As part of his newfound engagement on behalf of President Obama's re-election effort, former president Bill Clinton is reportedly set to help raise money for Priorities USA Action, the pro-Obama super PAC that's so far struggled to excite wealthy liberal donors. More
Campaign-finance champions running for mayor are silent on Cuomo and the Committee to Save New York
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and Comptroller John Liu, all of whom are running for mayor in 2013, have made their disdain for corporate spending in politics clear. But none of them had anything to say about the news that Governor Andrew Cuomo directed gambling-industry money to a pro-Cuomo lobbying group. More
Bloomberg defends Cuomo directing gambling-industry money to a pro-Cuomo group
Mayor Michael Bloomberg today defended Andrew Cuomo's direction of gambling-industry funds to a group that supports his agenda. More
Hopes for a fast train to the Rockaways are raised, then dashed again
On Friday morning, just hours before Governor Andrew Cuomo was to reveal that talks to build a $4 billion convention center in Queens had collapsed, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder climbed a rusty trestle to an abandoned train track lush with plant life and described how the nearby convention center development might spark a rejuvenation of the long-derelict railroad, and by extension, southeastern Queens. More
(3)Cuomo promises a 'transparent' casino selection process, and says there will always be a role for Javits
Governor Andrew Cuomo this afternoon promised to set up a "transparent" commission that will select casino operators for New York State, once casino gambling is legalized.
He also said that, pending further study, he, "would always see some facility at Javits." More
Cuomo says Aqueduct talks with gambling giant Genting 'haven't really worked out'
During a radio appearance this evening, Governor Andrew Cuomo said talks with gambling giant Genting to build a casino and convention center at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, "haven't really worked out," and said he's shopping says he's going to shop around for another developer.
" The conversations haven’t really worked out," said Cuomo, referring to Genting. "So a few weeks ago we started to bring in other gaming companies, the nation’s best." More
(1)Amid reports linking them to horse deaths, racinos push education and jobs money
Amid a recent string of bad press, the New York Gaming Association has released a couple of reports highlighting racinos' economic and educational contributions to New York State. More
Cuomo creates the conditions for a casino 'feeding frenzy,' and that may be the point
Gambling institutions and interest groups are stepping up their lobbying efforts after Governor Andrew Cuomo's successful first step toward legalization of casino gambling in New York, Jim Odato reports.
As part of last week’s legislative all-nighter, the legislature passed a bill allowing full-fledged casinos, complete with table games like blackjack and poker (complete with human dealers) in New York State. More
After Cuomo announces his gambling deal, Bloomberg expresses skepticism about the benefits
Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning said casinos almost never help the areas in which they are located, and suggested instead a Singapore model for legal gambling, drawing, by inference, a stark distinction with Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan.
"If you go just a block or two away from a lot of these big gambling spas, you don’t see any improvement for the people who live there," said the mayor. "But hope springs eternal. People are still trying to do that. " More
Basking in good poll numbers, in contrast with the legislature, Cuomo says he's where 'the people' are
"I said to my cabinet at the last meeting, stay outside of Albany," Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a radio interview this morning. "Talk to the people. They connected with the people."
He also said any discussion of pay raises for members of his executive branch was, at this point, "academic." More
(1)Moving past the 'racino' idea, Genting contemplates the elimination of racing at Aqueduct
Resorts World New York has proposed building a $4 billion convention center on land it leases from New York State at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. It has also discussed eliminating the racetrack element of the Aqueduct altogether.
As part of the ongoing discussions within the Malaysian gambling giant Genting, of which Resorts World is a subsidiary, there is talk of seeking to relocate the horse-racing that now takes place at
Aqueduct Racetrack to Belmont, according to someone who has been briefed by Genting. More
(3)Bloomberg on the challenge of making money with convention centers and casinos
During his regular Friday morning appearance on WOR's "The John Gambling Show," Mayor Michael Bloomberg discussed the challenges facing the governor's proposed convention center and casino in Queens, while also expressing some cautious support for the idea. More
(1)Cuomo's $4 billion Queens convention center backed by Bloomberg and, more importantly, a gambling enterprise
During his annual State of the State address on Wednesday afternoon, Governor Andrew Cuomo called for the creation of a cavernous 3.8-million-square-foot, $4 billion convention-center complex, complete with up to 3,000 hotel rooms, in Queens. The new convention center would be built on state-owned land, but paid for without public money, at least in part by a company that already operates a casino at the proposed location. More
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