In the southern American state of Arkansas and a group that is lobbying against the move to bring a commercial casino to Pope County has reportedly been dealt a setback associated with its petition drive. According to a Wednesday report from local television broadcaster KATV, Fair Play for Arkansas had reportedly collected and turned in some 100,000 signatures of support for its plan to have a referendum question regarding the casino proposal placed on the November 8 general election ballot. […]

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In the southern American state of Arkansas and regulators have reportedly approved a series of measures that could soon allow the jurisdiction’s land-based casinos to begin offering online sportsbetting. According to a Thursday report from the Arkansas Times newspaper, the unanimous move from the seven-member Arkansas Racing Commission comes a little over three years after voters in ‘The Natural State’ passed Amendment 100 to authorize the establishment of four Las Vegas-style casinos alongside the legalization of retail sportsbetting. The source detailed […]

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In Arkansas and the contest to pick the operator for a proposed Pope County casino has reportedly hit another stumbling block after the successful licensee had its winning bid effectively invalidated by the state’s highest court. According to a Thursday report from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper, an entity known as Gulfside Casino Partnership bested four other applicants last year to be given the right to bring a $254 million casino resort to the largely rural community of 61,700 people. The […]

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The three casinos in the southern American state of Arkansas together reportedly lost more than $1.4 billion in gross gaming revenues as a direct result of their enforced nine-week closures at the hands of the coronavirus pandemic. According to a Tuesday report from local television broadcaster KATV, the state’s Southland Park Gaming and Racing, Oaklawn Racing and Gaming and Saracen Resort Casino facilities were temporarily closed from the middle of March as the number of local infections hit double digits. […]

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In the southern American state of Arkansas and voters could soon reportedly be given the chance to approve a local constitutional amendment that would legalize a further 16 casinos including two each for the areas around the cities of Little Rock and West Memphis. According to a Monday report from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper, a pro-casino group calling itself Arkansas Wins in 2020 Incorporated officially submitted a petition in hopes that the government for ‘The Natural State’ will put just […]

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In the southern American state of Arkansas and the long-running process to pick the operator for a proposed Pope County casino reportedly took another unexpected turn yesterday after regulators announced that they had found bias in last week’s supposedly-final selection vote. According to a report from the Arkansas Times newspaper, Wednesday saw the Arkansas Racing Commission award the license for the envisioned Pope County casino to an entity known as Gulfside Casino Partnership at the expense of the Cherokee Nation […]

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In the southern American state of Arkansas and a lengthy legal battle now looks likely after local regulators selected an entity known as Gulfside Casino Partnership to build and operate the proposed casino for Pope County. According to a Thursday report from the Arkansas Times newspaper, the decision came at the expense of the federally-recognized Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, which had testified that it would not need any outside sponsorship in order to pay for its envisioned $250 million casino-friendly […]

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The Quapaw Nation has reportedly begun building its Saracen Resort Casino in Central Arkansas in hopes of being able to open the first phase of the coming $350 million development in about one year’s time. Oklahoma objective: According to a report from local television broadcaster KATV, the federally-recognized tribe’s Downstream Development Authority business arm received its casino license earlier this month and now anticipates launching gaming and dining operations inside the new Jefferson County venue by the end of next […]

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During a March 23, 2019 meeting of the Arkansas Racing Commission, the request by Oaklawn Racing and Gaming and Southland Park Gaming and Racing to begin casino gaming was approved. Fox 16 KLRT reports that the meeting which took place in Hot Springs, Arkansas, approved the two racino’s transformation into full-scale casinos from April 1, 2019. Issue 4 approval: In November last year, voters in the southern state narrowly approved Issue 4 as part of the ‘mid-term elections.’ The month […]

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In Arkansas, plans for the proposed Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff continue to move forward as the Downstream Development Authority, a subsidiary of the Quapaw Nation recently announced letters supporting the casino license application from local leaders in both city and county government. The Quapaw Nation own and operate the Quapaw Casino and the Downstream Casino Resort, both located in neighboring Oklahoma. According to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette… The letters of support written by Pine Bluff Mayor Shirley Washington and Jefferson County Judge Booker Clemons (pictured below right) to […]

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