AC Mayor Don Guardian<\/a> (R) opposes that track, and instead is asking for a two-year extension with a bailout from Trenton.<\/p>\nContinued growth by the casinos would theoretically lessen the overall bailout needed.<\/p>\n
This November, voters in New Jersey will decide whether to approve a referendum to end Atlantic City’s state monopoly on gambling and bring two casinos into the northern part of the state.<\/p>\n
That could also end the apparent resurgence, or at least stabilization, of the struggling city, of course, a potentiality that has caused some major clashes of opinion on whether the state gaming expansion is a good move, or a terrible idea.<\/strong><\/p>\nThough part of the revenues from potential casinos in northern counties would go to help Atlantic City, Guardian warned voters in March that other illicit aspects accompany gambling.<\/p>\n
“If you don’t think prostitution and drugs and other minor crimes won’t come . . . you’re being very foolish,” Guardian opined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Atlantic City casinos were looking up in April, with the region’s eight remaining venues posting $198 million in land-based revenue, and $215 million when including income from Internet gaming. That marks a cumulative 8.1 percent increase compared to April 2015 and sets a new monthly high for 2016. Online casinos performed extraordinarily well, the market […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":35892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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