Rolling the dice
Colorado gets $6.6M from its first year of sports betting
The crowd goes wild for the Denver Nuggets during a playoff watch party at The DNVR Bar on East Colfax Ave. on May 29. Legal sports betting brought in $6.6 million in tax revenue last year./ Photo by Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite Corey H. Jones/Colorado Public Radio - 06/03/2021
After closing the books on its first year of legalized sports betting, Colorado collected more than $6.6 million in tax revenue. The programs set to receive that money will start to do so this fall.
Voters passed Proposition DD by a slim margin in 2019. But by the time legal betting launched in May of last year, the state didn’t know what to expect because of the pandemic, Colorado’s director of gaming Dan Hartman said.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 19 2021
A man uses a gambling machine in Mpumudde Sub-county in Lyantonde District on August 20, 2018. PHOTO | PAUL SSEKANDI
Summary
2014 census. According to Population and Housing Census 2014, of the 93,753 people in Lyantonde District, a total of 11,806 people (57.2 per cent) are engaged in livestock farming while 17,122 (83 per cent) are engaged in either crop growing or livestock farming. The same statistics show that 17,115 youth aged between 18 and 30 years are working or have a source of income.
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In May 2016, the Lyantonde District Security Committee banned all gambling machines which were spread in trading centres across the district and ordered all operators to find alternative sources of income.
State gaming commission proposal clears House committee
Compact supporters acknowledge possible legal challenges.
Has gambling outgrown state regulators? Some lawmakers think so.
A House subcommittee OK’d two bills on Monday, one that would create a state commission to enforce gaming laws and another that would provide the commission a public record exemption.
The primary bill (
HB 3A) would establish the Florida Gaming Control Commission and crown it Florida’s lead law enforcement agency on gambling.
Currently, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) oversees pari-mutuel gambling in Florida such as cardrooms and horse racing.
Proponents of the bill, however, contend the department is struggling to manage gaming within the state.