Wayne Parry

1 week ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Wayne Parry

ATLANTIC CITY — The gambling industry research company whose 2022 report predicted job and revenue losses if Atlantic City banned smoking in its casinos says circumstances have changed somewhat since then. Spectrum Gaming Group wrote a report for the Casino Association of New Jersey that warned that ending smoking would cost Atlantic City casinos up to 2,500 jobs and nearly 11% of their revenue. Recently, however, Spectrum said things have evolved since then.

1 week ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Wayne Parry

ATLANTIC CITY — There were four stabbings, a woman's corpse dressed in black fishnets was molested, a giant boa constrictor wrapped itself around a man's head, and a homicidal mental patient had his head cut off by a guillotine — and it all got a standing ovation Saturday night at the Ocean Casino Resort. It could only mean one thing: school was back in session, with Alice Cooper teaching a master class in shock rock showmanship.

2 weeks ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Wayne Parry

TRENTON — New Jersey is taking a new look at nuclear power to help meet its increasing need for electricity as prices soar and offshore wind struggles. A state Senate committee advanced a bill Thursday that would authorize the state Board of Public Utilities to approve the location of small modular reactors and allow their operators to store spent nuclear fuel on site.

2 weeks ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Wayne Parry

ATLANTIC CITY — The resort's nine casinos saw a big decline in their operating profits in the first quarter of this year, down over 15% from a year earlier. Figures released Thursday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the casinos had a collective gross operating profit of nearly $132 million during January, February and March of this year.

2 weeks ago | pressofatlanticcity.com | Wayne Parry

TRENTON — Greater use of solar and wind energy and electric vehicles, modernizing the electrical grid, and training workers to do these jobs can help New Jersey meet its energy needs without adding planet-warming gases to the atmosphere, a coalition of labor and environmental groups said Wednesday.