Atlantic City casino workers are furious that the New Jersey Legislature is moving quickly to pass a bill giving tax breaks to the gambling halls, but not acting on a measure that would permanently prohibit smoking in the casinos.
There’s a risk that four of Atlantic City’s nine casinos could close if changes aren’t made to a 2016 law recalculating the industry’s tax payments, Senate President Steve Sweeney said.
In the survey of 813 registered New Jersey voters, conducted in October 2021, 44% of respondents said they're strongly in favor of a permanent prohibition on smoking indoors in New Jersey casinos.
Atlantic City Casinos and all local businesses desperately needed the strongest 4th of July weekend possible under the already devastating, pandemic conditions.
I want to share some thoughts about where we are and where we go from here. It’s palpable. Our region is getting “stir crazy.”
Tempers are getting short. People are stressed out like perhaps never before. If you’re one of the lucky ones who have kept you’re job, you’re bordering on exhaustion...
One New Jersey lawmaker thinks legalizing marijuana in Atlantic City could help spur an economic upswing at a time when the city continues to struggle by job and revenue loses from the closures of four casinos in 2014.