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Las Vegas Sands wants more casinos in North Florida The gambling giant is backing ballot initiatives that would ask voters to approve as many as three new casinos in the Sunshine State.     The Las Vegas Sands casino sits behind the Fisherman’s Wharf in Macau, which had $45 billion in casino earnings in 2013. Macau earned $38 billion with 35 casinos in 2012, passing the United States, where 12,000 casinos took in $37.3 billion in ’12. Published 1 hour ago TALLAHASSEE — A political committee backed by Las Vegas Sands, a powerful new entrant into the gambling market in Florida, t...

Winners and losers emerging from the 2021 Legislative Session They all can't be winners. Here is the definitive list of who's up and who took a fall. The ending of a Session is never a surprise. It’s like harvest season. What you get at the end is the result of months, maybe even years of tilling, planting, watering, tending, and shepherding. Against the odds and despite many challenges, the 2021 Legislative Session ended on time. The House Speaker and the Senate President were together for the iconic dropping of the hankie. There weren’t any strained smiles or forced compliments. They st...

Reply By Craig Pittman, Florida Phoenix You hear a lot around Presidents' Day and other patriotic holidays about how great democracy is and how important voting is. But in Florida, when a vote doesn't go the way big corporations like, our Legislature is ever eager to squash the voters' wishes. Sometimes, though, in their rush to crank up the steamroller for a good squashing, our legislators do something particularly boneheaded. A good example is what's going on right now with Key West and cruise ships. Until about a year ago, Key West was a busy town, its streets crowded with both tourists an...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Tax Classification Issue in Sevier County Rightly Comes Down in Favor of Timeshare Owners February 11, 2021 GMT WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 11, 2021-- On a critical tax issue that ARDA-Resort Owners’ Coalition (ARDA-ROC) intervened in on behalf of timeshare owners, filing amicus briefs in support of two appeals to the Administrative Appeals Commission (AAC), the AAC reversed the Tennessee Board of Equalization and ruled that timeshare properties “are, and should be classified as, residential...