New Jersey And Pennsylvania Casinos Resume Indoor Smoking
One-Year Ban Ended Last Weekend For Casinos In Both States
by Steve Schult
| Published: Jul 13, 2021
Associated Press, the year-long ban on smoking inside Atlantic City casinos expired last weekend, which allowed smokers to resume smoking indoors once again. A nearly identical ban in neighboring Pennsylvania expired as well.
The main difference between the two states is how the casinos have responded to the lifting of the ban. In New Jersey, all nine Atlantic City casinos have resumed smoking inside. Whereas, in Pennsylvania, only three properties resumed indoor smoking.
CBS affiliate, Rivers Casino, Live! Pittsburgh Casino and the Meadows Casino are the only properties to resume smoking and will only allow it to be done in designated smoking areas. New Jersey casinos also implemented designated smoking areas, which will make up about 20% of the gaming floor.
Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) has named two members to the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, but not a replacement for the vacant chairperson position.
Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) gestures during an address on state issues. Edwards has yet to name a chairperson to the Gaming Control Board. (Image:
KPLC-TV)
The governor appointed Ashley Anderson Taylor of Hammond to the nine-member board and reappointed Claude D. Jackson of Rodessa. Edwards announced the appointments Friday on his website. The board regulates gaming in Louisiana.
Edwards has not appointed a replacement for former Chairman Mike Noel, who resigned June 9.
If Noel had sought to remain on the board, a legislative committee likely would have questioned him about his role as a State Police official when Black motorist Ronald Greene was killed in 2019. Greene died after state troopers stunned, punched, and dragged him,
The original hotel, the Grand Central Hotel, was built on this site in 1858. It was known as “The White” and later “The Old White”.
The original hotel, the Grand Central Hotel, was built on this site in 1858. It was known as “The White” and later “The Old White”. Beginning in 1778, people came to follow the local Native American tradition to “take the waters” to restore their health. In the 19th century, visitors drank and bathed in the sulphur water to cure everything from rheumatism to an upset stomach. In the 1830s, the resort became well known as judges, lawyers, diplomats, ministers, planters and merchants from southern states visited the Old White resort in the summer for the restorative sulphur springs.
Why Main Stream Media Almost Always Sucks
He lives in a camper, writes really odd things, and no one knows where he is, what he’s writing or when he’ll show up next. That’s probably where the “
Wild” came from.
So Jimmy calls and wants Larry and me to go with him to a meeting with Hank Greenspun, legendary maverick ground-floor Israeli freedom-fighter and owner and publisher of
The Las Vegas Sun, the smaller of the two major Las Vegas newspapers at the time.
This is seriously unusual. Larry and I’ve been doing a lot of the Nevada L.P. media work and Mr. Greenspun is unavailable except to V.I.Ps, crack feature writers, and star reporters, which we aren’t.
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