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...luxury gaming resort will open near Ho Chi Minh City in 2009. Ground has already been broken for a pair of casino complexes in Singapore. The Philippine government is planning to open a 100-acre (405,000-square-meter) gaming complex that will employ 40,000 Filipinos in Manila Bay. In an attempt to lure Chinese gamblers over the border, Kazakhstan is creating the "Las Vegas of the steppe" in Kapchagai and Shchuchinsk. Governments in Taiwan, Thailand and Japan are considering legalizing casinos. According to Merrill Lynch, gaming companies are expected to spend $71 billion in Asia over the next...
Neither Fred Frank, president of Frank Productions, nor city officials would comment on just how much the city has paid to tame the event - officials said audit reports would take weeks to finalize. But taxpayers from Madison to Green Bay have been footing much of the costs for the police and cleanup over the past tumultuous years. George Twigg, a public information officer for Madison's mayor, says the city expects to get at least $200,000 in ticket sales, which he says will help ease the financial burden. Tickets cost $5 if purchased early and $7 for those...
...platform of reducing this squeeze on homeowners, and we are heartened to see a concrete plan to accomplish that promise. As Patrick has pointed out, the funds can also go toward fixing the Commonwealth’s infrastructure problems—not least of which is the Big Dig. Bay Staters deserve to have safe roads and tunnels without having their taxes raised even further. Indeed, the plight of many Massachusetts families who cannot afford to see taxes get any higher should outweigh the personal qualms of the anti-casino lobby. However, it is not unwarranted to take reasonable steps...
...that symbolic occasion, the Senate chose to retain a provision of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) that prevents Guantanamo Bay inmates from challenging their detention in court. This de facto suspension of habeas corpus applies to foreign aliens as well as U.S. permanent residents, to those who have committed hostile acts as well as many who have not. Most frighteningly, it applies to detainees against whom military prosecutors lack enough evidence to classify as enemy combatants—but who may nonetheless be kept in Guantanamo limbo indefinitely...
...past five years have offered only a glimpse into the pervasiveness of steroid usage—the proverbial smoke to what may really be a raging fire. It began with the Bay Area Lab Co-operative back in 2003, and has been slowly accelerating ever since. Given the ugliness surrounding our dear Barry “Balco” Bonds’ taking of the title of all-time homerun champ it would be an understatement to say that people don’t like this whole steroid business much. But there’s no avoiding it: With guys...