A year-old state legislation permits people to ask casinos to help stop them from gambling. Violating a "self-exclusion" contract means casinos decline to pay winnings, kick out barred gamblers, or even arrest them for trespassing. Read the full story at Hotel Online
Attorney Gen. petitions gambling case - 2004-04-07 Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller declared Tuesday he would once again ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an Iowa Supreme Court decision that tossed out the state's gaming tax structure and put gambling at the head of the legislative agenda this year.
The Iowa House has currently passed a measure that sets a more equal tax rate for riverboat casinos and racetracks at 22 and 24 percent and would permit the horse and dog tracks to include table games. Read the full story at Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier
