Dan Kane

5 days ago | charlotteobserver.com | Dan Kane

Priming the pump: A nonprofit with close ties to a Republican pro-gambling legislator releases two reports supportive of legalizing casino. One says state residents would not oppose expanding legal gaming and the other predicts that casinos in Anson, Nash and Rockingham counties could draw roughly $1.7 billion in revenue a year.. Neil Nakahodo Illustration by Neil Nakahodo North Carolina has long banned casino gambling, with prohibitions - some dating back to the 1790s - still on the books.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Dan Kane

North Carolina has long banned casino gambling, with prohibitions – some dating back to the 1790s – still on the books. In 2021, a Baltimore-based developer launched quiet campaigns to build casinos in three North Carolina counties.

6 days ago | pilotonline.com | Dan Kane

Two years ago, Senate leader Phil Berger sought to pass legislation to bring casinos to North Carolina, including one to his home county to counter a gambling complex opening just across the border in Danville, Virginia. That was big news. North Carolina had banned casinos, except for those U.S. law allows on land owned by Native American tribes, for more than two centuries.

6 days ago | charlotteobserver.com | Dan Kane

Lobbying: The Cordish Companies, a casino developer, starts hiring lobbyists in North Carolina in September 2021, two years before a bill that could end North Carolina's long community casino ban is made public. Neil Nakahodo Lobbying: The Cordish Companies, a casino developer, starts hiring lobbyists in North Carolina in September 2021, two years before a bill that would end North Carolina's long community casino ban is made public.

1 month ago | newsobserver.com | Dan Kane

Two people are dead in a murder-suicide Saturday night near Willow Springs, a Johnston County sheriff's major said. A deputy who responded to a 911 call at a home in a subdivision off of Chaney Drive and Cornwallis Road heard what he believed to be a gunshot, said Maj. Jeff Caldwell in a phone interview. During the call a woman could be heard asking for help, he said. When deputies entered they found a man and a woman shot dead, Caldwell said.